Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Today in New York, 20th Century Fox showcased a few of its big genre movies that are currently in production. The one seemingly getting the most buzz is the third Wolverine film, Logan. We’ll have full write-ups of all the footage (which also included War for the Planet of the Apes and Alien: Covenant) soon,…
In Hollywood, the prevailing thought is an R-rating holds a film back. The feeling is, by limiting the audience to people over 17, studios aren’t allowing films to live up to their full financial potential. Forget the fact forcing a rating hinders creativity and kids will see a movie anyway, it’s just the way some…
Dungeons & Dragons has historically used attractive monsters, and especially of the female persuasion, to appeal to potential players. Busty demons and lithe wood maidens populated its source material, namely its Monster Manual, throughout the last 40 years. With recent editions and supplements, D&D has phased out its bare-breasted female monsters and included more sexy…
NEW YORK (AP) — Jake Tapper’s verbal tug-of-war with Vice President-elect Mike Pence last week illustrated a persistent style the CNN anchor is making his signature, and one that he hopes his colleagues take up, too. Tapper asked Pence eight times about the son of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the incoming administration’s pick as national…
The CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who pressed Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Michael G. Flynn’s role in the transition. Credit Lexey Swall for The New York Times Too often television news, especially on cable, serves as a megaphone for politicians who use it to forward lies and propaganda while so effortlessly ignoring questions they’re supposedly…
Fast 8 is now The Fate of the Furious, brilliantly, and the first full trailer gives us our first good look at what the Fast and Furious series’ post-Paul Walker existence is going to look like. There is also a showdown involving snowmobiles and tanks on ice, which explains the equally great Japanese title Wild…
In the half millennium since a broke German blacksmith invented movable type, innumerable reformers and politicians have attracted public support through books, pamphlets, and broadsheets. From Martin Luther nailing his theses to a Wittenberg Church, to the federalist papers of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, to Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope, these works conveyed…
Warning: This post contains spoilers for “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” Not about the last four words, but about a lot of other things. Read at your own risk. If Rory is your favorite “Gilmore Girls” character, then I am very sorry because that revival couldn’t have been easy for you to watch….
It’s early November in Portland, Oregon, and Dan Savage—probably America’s best-known sex-advice columnist—is standing on the stage of a former high-school auditorium, engaging the audience in a bit of call-and-response. “Turn your smartphone…” he calls out. “OFF!” roars the crowd. “We will take it…” “AWAY!” “You will never get it…” “BACK!” It’s the finale of…
Hide CM floating unit In her 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” Ivanka Trump employs an audacious strategy: she portrays all of her advantages as handicaps. Credit Photograph by Damon Winter / The New York Times / Redux Barrier Status: ‘none’ Ivanka Trump’s 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” opens with an unlikely sentence: “In…