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There’s a scene during the second season premiere of the magnificently over-the-top hip hop proto-Succession drama Empire wherein the Lyon clan marches…

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is facing off with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, among other films, for the top prize at…

After selling his hit puzzle game Wordle to The New York Times in 2022 for an undisclosed price somewhere in the “low…

Along with the Death Star, the Imperial Star Destroyer is perhaps the most iconic spacecraft of the Star Wars universe. The ship’s…

A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played…

Long before the Epstein files, there has been a tacit, begrudging understanding among the underclass that the world is run by powerful…

If you’ve ever wondered whether you might find life more enjoyable as a giant rodent sitting quietly in an onsen with a…

Anyone unfamiliar with the Eurovision Song Contest could be forgiven for assuming that the annual roster of contestants is populated entirely by…

On some corners of the internet, young people have recently taken to only-half-jokingly pining for a more Chinese way of living, and…

Every four years, we all get a reminder about why still photography is an urgently important art form that must be preserved…