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In the week since Black Panther’s release, the movie has been lauded for every element imaginable: its surehanded direction; its cast of fully-fleshed characters that give new dimension to the Marvel Cinematic Universe; its cinematography by a trailblazing director of photography; its considered costume and production design; and above all, its vision of an Afrofuturist […]

The Merc with a Mouth is back, and he's making even more money this time around. Yes, friends, Deadpool 2 shot into theaters this weekend to the tune of $125 million at the domestic box office. That wasn’t quite enough to beat its predecessor's $132.4 million opening, but it’s still pretty damn good for an […]

No matter how magnetic Josh Brolin is when wearing a full face of CGI makeup—and the answer, it seems, is a surprising “more than you’d expect”—there’s no way that Avengers: Infinity War can fulfill everyone’s Thanos thirst. The character Brolin is embodying is almost too much for one person to take on. With that in […]

Of all the absurdities of Mark Zuckerberg’s more than ten hours of Congressional testimony this week, one moment of theater stands out. “I'd like to show you, right now, a little picture here,” Missouri Republican Billy Long said to the Facebook CEO. A staffer placed a large photo of two women behind his head. “You […]

Westworld watchers, we knew this moment was coming. The second season's third episode, "Virtù e Fortuna," opens not in Westworld but in an India-themed park. Where Westworld is an emblem of the colonization of Native American land, this park represents Britain's takeover of the subcontinent, and the racial-social hierarchy is clearly encoded: Women in saris […]

Matt Johnson. Ryan Kasper-Cook. Tom BetGeorge. These three kings deal not in frankincense and myrrh but in dubstep and mirth. They’re the vanguard behind the viral phenomenon of maximalist, Vegasified Christmas houses, spangled with lights flashing in time to everything from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra to Slipknot. BetGeorge’s 2016 homage to Harry Potter, for example, featured […]

Beauty, to borrow a cliché, is in the eye of the beholder. But what if your beholder’s eyes could be hacked? What if yours could? In Reality+, they can be. The short film—from Revenge writer-director Coralie Fargeat—imagines a future where people can buy an implant that allows them to live in an alternative reality where […]

On a sunless morning last month, online chatter was especially restless. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC had just unveiled new presidential portraits and reactions, on Twitter and across group texts, spilled over into a fervor. The artists Kehinde Wiley, known for his august renderings of black men that challenge conceptions of power […]

With access to more tutorials, audiences, and distribution channels than ever before, today’s kids can achieve stardom before graduating high school. How to … … Publish a Hit Book Millions of young scribes are publishing serialized fiction on social apps like Wattpad and Radish, as well as text-style chat fiction cousins Hooked, Yarn, and Tap. […]

Click:小型工作室 Last week, tragically, was bookended with two high-profile suicides, making this tweet all the more crucial. And the losses of both designer Kate Spade and chef/TV host Anthony Bourdain were just part of a very busy week that included Samantha Bee apologizing for her Ivanka Trump statements, former Senate Intelligence Committee security director James […]