| News, Jon Stewart, politics, Samantha Bee By Teresa Jusino on Mon,11:36 I'll admit, when I saw that Samantha Bee took to Twitter to apologize "for using an expletive on my show to describe [Ivanka Trump]," I was a bit disappointed. I mean, I get it. There was likely pressure from her network, and a woman's gotta keep her show going. Still, I was disappointed that TBS couldn't stand behind their most incisive voice. During a recent appearance, Jon Stewart had some advice, one political comedian to another, about how to handle stuff like this in the future. Read More > Big on the Internet, Movies, internalized sexism, Ocean's 8, remakes By Princess Weekes on Mon,11:35 "Heist movies don’t have a gender." As Ocean's 8 gets ready to hit the theaters, it has the specter of past "gender-bent" films behind it. Read More > Movies, Steve McQueen, Viola Davis, Widows By Charline Jao on Mon,10:57 The first trailer for Widows, the new thriller from director Steven McQueen and co-writer Gillian Flynn is here. Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, and Cynthia Erivo star. Read More > Movies, academia, Star Wars (franchise), women in movies By Kaila Hale-Stern on Mon,10:56 Dr. Rebecca Harrison conducted an analysis of how the Star Wars movies fare when it comes to featuring women onscreen. Read More > TV, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, Neil deGrasse Tyson By Charline Jao on Mon,9:49 John Oliver's guardianship segment included a brief allusion to Sam Bee's Ivanka-Trump-directed "feckless c**t" comment. Read More > Big on the Internet, LGBTQ Representation, Monday Cute, Pride Month By Princess Weekes on Mon,8:25 It's like something straight out of a romantic comedy. Read More > TV, HBO, Insecure, Issa Rae By Charline Jao on Mon,8:00 Like many Issa moments, it's a burst of confidence that's quickly interrupted by reality. Read More > Big on the Internet, Black Panther, special effects, things we saw today By Chelsea Steiner on Sun,5:30 VFX in cinema have become so advanced that it's difficult to tell the difference between digital effects and practical ones. Black Panther, like other MCU films, featured a dazzling array of special effects throughout the film. Luma Pictures, the independent studio who built the visuals for the car chase sequence, released a video breakdown of the sequence in a fascinating look at cutting edge digital effects. Read More > Movies, Brian De Palma, Harvey Weinstein, sexual assault By Chelsea Steiner on Sun,3:30 This week in Things No One Wants: legendary director Brian De Palma wants to make a horror film inspired by the crimes of Harvey Weinstein. In an interview with Le Parisien, the Carrie director revealed that he's writing the screenplay for an unnamed French producer and plans to direct the film. De Palma said, “My character won’t be named Harvey Weinstein, but it will be a horror film, with a sexual aggressor, and it will take place in the film industry.” Read More > Technology, Department of Defense, drones, Google By Chelsea Steiner on Sun,2:28 In an announcement on Friday, Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene stated that the company would not be renewing its contract on the controversial Project Maven, which provides artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defense for drone footage analysis. Greene cited backlash from the public and Google employees in the announcement, saying that the company would not be continuing its work on the project once their current contract expires in 2019. Read More > AMP Featured, Movies, Benedict Cumberbatch, Doctor Strange, Sherlock By Chelsea Steiner on Sun,1:21 Benedict Cumberbatch is both an Avenger on-screen and a hero in real life. The Doctor Strange actor came to the rescue of a mugging victim in London. The victim was working for food delivery company Deliveroo when four men attacked him. Cumberbatch and his wife Sophie Hunter were riding past the scene in an Uber when he asked the driver to stop and ran out of the car to chase away the attackers. Read More > AMP Featured, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, MIT, robot apocalypse By Chelsea Steiner on Sun,12:34 You would think that the killer combination of global warming, Doritos Locos tacos, and the Trump administration is sending us on a one-way ticket to the end of the world. Whelp, the nerds at MIT just asked us to hold their beer as they slammed their foot on the gas pedal. A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Killing Us All, I mean Technology have developed a psychopathic algorithm named Norman. Like Norman Bates, get it? Read More > |
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