Over the last few months, we've seen many people — some of them friends, some of them colleagues, some of them professional acquaintances — harassed, threatened, bullied for daring to suggest that video games can and should do better. It's no coincidence that many of these people — award-winning…

Airbnb, the pioneering home rental service, presents itself as useful and virtuous, but the reality is far less benign, according to a report that Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, released on Thursday. The report will say nearly three-quarters of all Airbnb rentals in the city…

In the new movie Listen Up Philip , Jason Schwartzman stars as a young author named Philip Lewis Friedman. He’s unsympathetic to others, doggedly selfish, and emotionally cruel. Basically, he’s the type of total nightmare you hope to never get seated next to at a wedding, or God forbid, find married…

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Dave Kehr is not a flashy critic, but he does know movies better than you ever will, better than just about anyone who’s toiled on the film crit beat. And, patiently, intently, with the same quiet craftsmanship and lack of ego found in the work of the American studio directors who he’s so eloquently…

Photo: Merrick Morton/Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises We will be discussing Gone Girl plot and twists. If you’ve read the book, you’re fine. If you haven’t and plan on seeing the movie unsullied, you might want to save this essay and read it afterwards. In 2013, the author Gillian…

Gone Girl A big part of the case for David Fincher, at least as I’ve heard it put forward by his more eloquent defenders, is that he’s a throwback—that is to say that, with his unfailing technical luster and easy traverse between genre subjects, he’s a holdover from the days of studio…

Counted among Twitter’s 271 million active users are an untold number of bots. These accounts were created by people with a pulse but tweet without human intervention. Some are handy, others beautiful, many peculiar. Bots, it should be said, are some of the most productive members of Twitter’s…

Photo by Attila Acs My first girlfriend was someone I met through a MUD , and I had to fly 7,000 miles to see her in person. I read a paper version of the Jargon File at 15 and it became my bible. Just reading its descriptions of the internet I knew it was world-changing, even before the web, and as…

In addition to rave reviews for star Michael Keaton, the new Birdman is garnering attention for the way director Alejandro González Iñárritu frames the film as more or less one long, unbroken take. While that isn’t a precisely accurate description—Iñárritu and his DP, Emmanuel Lubezki, stitched…

An exclusive excerpt from “ Check The Technique Vol 2" reveals how a gangsta’s fairytale became a classic In 1990 hip-hop ruled the world , at least that’s how it felt to us. For that glorious year Ice Cube’s solo debut Amerikkka’s Most Wanted was the apex of our existence. Bold, complex and crazy…

The worst part about being a U2 fan is just how goddamned uncool U2 is. A month ago, this band, my favorite band — one of the best-known, longest-running, and most critically acclaimed going concerns in popular music — gave away a surprise brand-new album . Some people loved it , some people didn’t…

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The following contains spoilers for The Wolverine and X-Men: The Last Stand. After 126 minutes, The Wolverine ends. And then it immediately begins again, with a scene that functions as simultaneous epilogue and prologue. According to the onscreen title card, it’s now “TWO YEARS LATER,” as Hugh…

You can count the number of people better liked than Bill Murray on one hand. This makes his recent filmography a bit shocking. Since Charlie’s Angels in 2000, America’s favorite weird uncle has made exactly two movies that met these three criteria: 1 . A positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes 2 . More…

A year ago, writing partners Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman —who’d been responsible for Star Trek Into Darkness , Cowboys & Aliens , and Transformers — signaled their intent to revive the classic Universal monsters as part of a single “universe” like the wildly successful Marvel movies. Orci and…

Havana in June 2011. Desmond Boylan/Reuters Scanning a map of the world must give President Obama a sinking feeling as he contemplates the dismal state of troubled bilateral relationships his administration has sought to turn around. He would be smart to take a hard look at Cuba , where a major…

Story highlights Bryant Terry, an author and food advocate, was initially intrigued by Thug Kitchen The site, which promotes healthy eating, uses vulgar stereotypes to promote its message The creators turned out to be a white couple Terry argues against the misrepresentation of African-American food…

1. Let’s Talk About Hair — Oh, and Women’s Shoes. Don’t Forget Women’s Shoes. Premiering 20 years ago this month, Pulp Fiction was the movie that turned Quentin Tarantino into, you know, Quentin Tarantino . That’s enough all by itself to make landmark status a lock, right? Right. By now, though, the…

October 14 marks the 20th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction . The influence of Tarantino’s second feature was almost immediately felt, and we don’t just mean in your dorm room, where your college roommate would try to quote the Book of Ezekiel, or during the 18 months when everyone…

Rogers Sportsnet unveiled their new broadcast studio of the upcoming NHL hockey season, during a media tour at the CBC building in Toronto on Sept 29 2014. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail The victors strode into the CBC's Toronto headquarters at 250 Front St. West on June 1 in an especially humiliating…

“The actual past is brittle, ever-dimming + and ever more problematic to access + reconstruct: in contrast, the virtual past is malleable, ever-brightening + ever more difficult to circumvent/expose as fraudulent.” – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas By common consensus, Civilization V ’s “Fall of Rome”…

"Carpal Tunnel Syndrome was not an easy record to make," says Kid Koala, erupting into one of his trademark peals of laughter. It's a fair point, too. First, there was the pressure of being signed to his dream label, Ninja Tune; then the fact that he told them he'd deliver an album in six months.…

We all know it’s playing dress-up, but you want people who are ready to explode when they get to do it.David Fincher In case you haven’t heard, on December 21, the world will finally get to bear witness to 26-year-old Rooney Mara’s performance as one of the most cunning, enigmatic, and unorthodox…

Warning: The following article discusses the plot of Gone Girl in its entirety. For a spoiler-free article about the film, read this instead . From a certain point of view, director David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl is one of the most misogynistic movies ever made. It…

Photo: Iurii Kryvenko/iStockphoto When many an actress or actor are asked on a talk show or in a magazine what it was like doing a sex scene in the project they’re promoting, they always respond with something like, “Oh, my co-star is just so great and made me feel really comfortable, and the crew…

Getty Images Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Photo: Getty Images The following is excerpted from 'ROOKIE YEARBOOK THREE,' edited by Tavi Gevinson, on sale October 21. Something I didn't realize when I started making music was that any entrepreneurial endeavor involves hiring people, creating…

My mom and I play a lot of Words With Friends. We've been knocking words back and forth across state lines for years now thanks to Zynga, the gaming behemoth behind WWF and a host of other addictive games such as Farmville, Zynga Poker, and Zombie Smash. In August, when Zynga changed its privacy…

The world is often cruel to geniuses, and vice versa. Case in point: Sam Peckinpah. The Wild Bunch director made movies that were like his life: violent, angry, ragged, and filled with alcohol, sex, profanity, and a vitriolic rage aimed at corrupt authority. (Or authority in general, really.)…

Dimension Films It’s 2011 and we’re already tired of franchises. Well, at least the throwaway characters about to get gutted in Stab 6 are, as one of them sarcastically writes off Saw IV as “gross, not scary” and lacking “character development.” But then the scene we’re watching pulls out to reveal…

The four largest movie theater owners in the US on Tuesday pushed back against a Netflix/Weinstein Co./IMAX deal that will keep the sequel to the popular “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” out of most movie houses. Under the deal, announced Tuesday, “Crouching 2” will debut on Netflix — with a special…

The following post contains spoilers for Gone Girl and Audition . Now that Gone Girl is finally in theaters and writers are free to talk , talk , talk about what happens after Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) disappears—and whether it’s misogynist or feminist or what have you—a lot of discussion has…

Tasha: I largely enjoyed David Fincher’s Gone Girl , but one thing about it kept making me laugh: The sheer amount of prominent product placement. Nick (Ben Affleck) wakes up one morning with his sister pressing a cold can of Diet Coke to his forehead. Later, he expresses his frustration with his…

“The new [ Twin Peaks episodes] will be set in the present day and continue storylines established in the second season. [Mark] Frost emphasized that the new episodes will not be a remake or reboot but will reflect the passage of time since viewers last checked in with key characters.” — Variety ,…

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