Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Image: Universal Pictures By Ariel BogleAustralia2015-08-02 01:32:19 -0700 Actor Chris Pratt is known to be friendly with his fans, but he went above and beyond Friday when he asked them to create a new header for his Facebook page using the powers of Photoshop.He asked only that the image feature his most famous characters —…
But Did You Read the Book? Cara Delevingne, Press Junketry, and Me Earlier this week, an interview with the actor Cara Delevingne made the rounds online. In it, the anchors of “Good Day Sacramento” refer to her as “Carla” and then ask her whether she read the novel Paper Towns. (She stars in the film…
Once the smartest form of comedy, satire has turned into fake news and dumbed-down clickbait. From Colbert to The Onion, the tide is going out. How did satire get so stupid? Not long ago, satire reigned as the highest form of comedy. It could shake political regimes, and spur social change. But in the Internet…
Image: FOX By Laura Vitto2015-07-29 11:00:49 -0400 Way back in 2000, a Donald Trump presidency was still a joke. Just ask The Simpsons.In the Season 11 episode “Bart to the Future,” future President Lisa Simpson and Secretary Van Houten — or, rather, adult Milhouse — discuss the debt crisis former President Trump left. View post…
Rupert Wyatt is directing the comic book film, which 20th Century Fox hyped earlier this month at Comic-Con Channing Tatum’s “Gambit” deal is in jeopardy of falling apart and he is planning to exit the comic book project at 20th Century Fox, an individual with knowledge of the situation has told TheWrap. The studio had…
The first Dr. Seuss book published since his death 24 years ago hit stores on Tuesday, and initial reviews hint at a deeper political message within the story. It wouldn’t be his first time he has used his children’s books to serve up cultural critiques—far from it. Theodore Seuss Geisel has a long history of writing political allegories. Horton…
July of 2015 is officially the moment of both peak geek nostalgia and peak geek nostalgia criticism. In less than two weeks, we’ve seen the release of Ernest Cline’s book Armada and the Adam Sandler movie Pixels, two different pieces of fiction with the same weirdly specific premise: aliens are here to kill us all, and only…
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Called away on family business, I was afraid I’d missed the sweet spot for commentary on the Harper Lee/“To Kill a Mockingbird”/“Go Set a Watchman” controversy — that moment right after “Watchman’s” release on July 14 when it was all anybody in literary circles could talk about. Then again, the Rupert Murdoch-owned publishing house HarperCollins…
The central premise behind the new Adam Sandler comedy “Pixels” is so undeniably promising on its most basic level that as I walked into the screening, I felt a genuine anticipation that I cannot easily recall ever feeling in conjunction with one of his films, at least of those cranked out by his Happy Madison…