In demand … Phoebe Waller-Bridge.Photograph: Dylan Coulter/The Guardian Lucy Prebble , playwright How many really good works do you think a writer has in them? I’m going to say infinite for the sake of my own professional optimism, but I don’t think there’s a rule. I do think there are only so many…

Trying to define television in the 2010s has proven just as great a task as keeping up with the surge in series, which crested in 2018 with 495 scripted shows . The plethora of options—not just in series, but platforms, including upstarts turned streaming elders Netflix and Hulu—makes it nearly…

Jennifer Lopez (“ Hustlers ”) and Robert Pattinson (“ The Lighthouse ”) sat down for a chat for “Variety Studio: Actors on Actors.” For more, click here . In “ Hustlers ,” Jennifer Lopez plays Ramona, the ringleader of a gang formed in a New York strip club. She’s equal parts private dancer and…

Courtesy of FRANÇOIS DUHAMEL/DISNEY+ At first sight, playing a vital character in Jon Favreau ’s “ The Mandalorian ,” Disney’s live-action “ Star Wars ” series, which the studio is using to launch its ambitious streaming venture, might appear to be an odd move for Werner Herzog . Yet, if Herzog’s…

Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world’s great coastal cities. The authors of a paper published Tuesday developed a more accurate way of calculating land elevation based on satellite…

In August, the English Premier League started using a video-assistant referee system (V.A.R.) during all its matches. V.A.R. is soccer’s first serious attempt to incorporate technology into the umpiring of the game, like Hawk-Eye, in tennis, or the replay system, in the N.F.L. It’s a complicated…

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.) Between “The Irishman,” “Gemini Man,” and “Finding Jack” — a new movie…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Canadian broadcasting giant Sportsnet has fired legendary Hockey Night in Canada commentator Don Cherry for making racist comments on Saturday night’s show. In advance of Monday’s Remembrance Day holiday, during which Commonwealth subjects wear poppies to honor…

Photo by M. Dykstra / Shutterstock / The Atlantic . Sometime this winter, I performed an experiment: I decided to subscribe to home delivery of a daily newspaper. I am so pleased by the success of this experiment that I can no longer remember why I undertook it, although through my daze of…

Subscribe In April, Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm, purchased Gizmodo Media Group, the collection of websites formerly known as Gawker Media, from Univision. Great Hill’s leaders also acquired The Onion, changed the parent company’s name to G/O Media, installed a bunch of the CEO’s…

Continue reading the main story “Athena,” the debut album of boundary-defying, violin-driven music by Brittney Parks, is a “soundtrack of the making of a goddess.” The 25-year-old songwriter and violinist Brittney Parks records as Sudan Archives. Credit... Samuel Trotter for The New York Times LOS…

Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks W ar War never changes, but Fallout sure has. Over the past 10 years, the Fallout franchise has received three entries: Fallout: New Vegas in 2010, Fallout 4 in 2015, and Fallout 76 in 2018. Those three games are the Christmas Carol -esque ghost trio of the…

Apple Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., two of the most recognizable companies in tech and finance, are caught up in a growing debate over whether lenders unintentionally discriminate when they use complex models to determine how Americans borrow money. On Saturday, Bloomberg reported that a Wall…

Continue reading the main story Why Do We Tolerate Saudi Money in Tech? Saudi Arabia may have had spies at Twitter. And the country’s oligarchs keep investing in American tech companies. When will we learn? Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer. Credit... Erin Schaff/The…

Continue reading the main story The rap duo’s last album was released in 2003. After the death of its M.C., Guru, and an ongoing dispute between the producers DJ Premier and DJ Solar, a posthumous release is on the way. DJ Premier at HeadQCourterz Studios in Queens, where he assembled the first Gang…

American International Pictures/Ringer illustration It’s easy to connect the dots between Martin Scorsese’s first feature, Who’s That Knocking at My Door , and his third, Mean Streets . Both draw on Scorsese’s experiences growing up in New York, and both star Harvey Keitel as young men sorting…

Continue reading the main story An Op-Ed From the Future We Shouldn’t Bother the Feral Scooters of Central Park It’s 2031. If we can share our city with raccoons and birds, we can learn to live with scooters, too. Ms. Shane is an optics research scientist and the author of “You Look Like a Thing and…

Every week, Spotify releases two-track EPs through its Spotify Singles program, recorded at various Spotify Studios locations around the world. It’s a foray into Spotify-branded content, with each EP usually featuring one original song and one cover—sometimes partnering with the stars, other times…

Illustration by Ana Galvañ Where do ideas come from? That’s a big question. Here’s a smaller one: Where do mathematical ideas come from? I’ve wondered about this from the time I first contemplated being a mathematician until long after I officially became one. My earliest memory of anything like a…

Ringer illustration There is a scene in Mr. Jealousy where a group of friends attends a screening of an unnamed “American independent film” and talks it over afterward; “not one of his better ones” is their blithely dismissive consensus. The temptation to guess which filmmaker Noah Baumbach is…

On their first night out together after meeting on a dating site for widowed septuagenarians (OK Boomer?), Roy Courtnay ( Ian McKellen ) and Betty McLeish ( Helen Mirren ) take in a screening of “Inglourious Basterds” at a London cinema. It’s the summer of 2009, and neither of these characters knows…

Continue reading the main story Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Facebook isn’t defending free speech, it’s assaulting truth. Mr. Sorkin is a playwright and screenwriter. Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network.” Credit... Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures, via…

Artificial intelligence can do some amazing things, but it's not perfect. Research scientist Dr. Janelle Shane has been cataloging " the sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling ways that algorithms get things wrong" on her website, AI Weirdness , and dives deeper into the topic in her new book,…

CHICAGO — The city’s first foray into electric scooter rentals officially ends Tuesday after a four-month pilot program that irritated some, thrilled others and left the city to figure out what’s next. During the pilot, Block Club Chicago rode along with employees of Lime, one of the 10 scooter…

In the spring of last year, cybersecurity researcher Takeshi Sugawara walked into the lab of Kevin Fu, a professor he was visiting at the University of Michigan. He wanted to show off a strange trick he'd discovered. Sugawara pointed a high-powered laser at the microphone of his iPad—all inside of a…

Robert Eggers and DP Jarin Blaschke went through a painstaking process of retrofitting '30s lenses, optimizing Kodak black-and-white film stock, developing a custom orthochromatic filter, and designing frames specifically for 1.19:1. In the late 19th century, a young drifter and a veteran lighthouse…

Continue reading the main story Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain. Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected. In superhero movies, nothing is at risk, a director says. Mr. Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning director, writer and producer. “It’s a…

Ore Huiying/Getty Images Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is defending the company’s decision to pull an episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act from its service in Saudi Arabia, stating Netflix isn’t in the “truth to power business.” Hastings spoke about the decision, which occurred earlier this year, while…

Illustrated | Netflix Thanksgiving is coming up, and for the technically minded that means one thing: returning home to the horror of a TV with motion smoothing on. You've surely seen that effect on modern TVs that makes everything look like a cheap soap opera. So common is this scourge that a…

Hideo Kojima ’s “ Death Stranding ” is massive, moody, and — as usual for the video game auteur — weird as hell. The open-world experience has enough contemplative moments to make it feel like a “Grand Theft Auto” sequel directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, and it’s the greatest achievement yet from the…

Across thousands of years of existence, we as a people have come to regard war as pretty bad. Senseless violence and the loss of irreplaceable lives, usually in the service of petty men who wield the power of nations indiscriminately, is just fucking stupid. Yet it still happens, and in America, the…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration What would a Martin Scorsese superhero movie look like? This is undoubtedly a stupid question, but given the inane discourse around Scorsesegate—which began with the Oscar-winning filmmaker likening the Marvel Cinematic Universe to Six Flags en route to widespread…

The southern Polish city of Wrocław, from where Cat@Net runs multiple fake social media accounts .Photograph: rudi1976/Alamy It is as common an occurrence on Polish Twitter as you are likely to get: a pair of conservative activists pouring scorn on the country’s divided liberal opposition. “I burst…

Credit... Illustration by Nigel Buchanan Skip to contentSkip to site index WeWork’s chief risk-taker found a kindred spirit with an open checkbook: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son. Now he’s walking away from the wreckage with more than $1 billion. Credit... Illustration by Nigel Buchanan Adam Neumann stood…

A lot of filmmakers I talk to are understandably circumspect in interviews. They don’t want to say the wrong thing, or piss off the wrong person, or reveal something that’s supposed to remain secret. A lot of the art of being interviewed is knowing what not to say. So they are tentative, even…

Top highlight Illustration: Kelsey Niziolek Sarah Emerson Oct 30 · 12 min read I heard the “pop!” from my living room as a brand-new pack of Amazon batteries spontaneously exploded on the kitchen counter, oozing a gritty black substance in fits and spurts. The small, unassuming item is one of…

Continue reading the main story A Disney executive said the marketing for Disney Plus was “a synergy campaign of a magnitude that is unprecedented in the history of the Walt Disney Company.” Credit... Adam S. Davis/EPA, via Shutterstock LOS ANGELES — Tom Bergeron, the host of the ABC reality show…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Quick story: In 2010 I went to Michael Bolton’s house in Connecticut for a somewhat awkward cocktail party (long story) and beheld there, on the walls of his luxe recording studio next door, a music-industry plaque for Kanye West’s The College Dropout . It turns out…

Sketch comedy has changed a lot since its vaudeville days. Once confined to a stage, sketches unleashed themselves on our big glowing boxes (TVs) before lying in wait on the Internet, ready to be summoned at any moment on our smaller glowing rectangles (phones). The past two decades have been…

What is the Justice League of Aging Auteurs really rebelling against? Photo: Marvel Studios So, I guess this is our new reality, in which every director of a certain age must be asked for their thoughts on Marvel. The current wave of interrogations started earlier this month, when Martin Scorsese,…