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The shortage of women in tech is troubling. What’s more troubling is a woman, in tech, trying to keep women out of tech. Sadly, that’s exactly what Gizmodo’s Sophie Kleeman did with her recent piece titled ‘Apple’s Decision to Cast Jessica Alba in Its Reality Show Is an Outrage.’ The piece pines over the admittedly-odd casting…
For two years, the film Academy has been hit with fiery criticism over its all-white Oscar acting nominees. So when Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation premiered to cheers at the Sundance Film Festival in January and sold for a record $17.5 million to Fox Searchlight, it looked like a savior Academy voters could…
Clean Room # 11 (DC Comics – Writer: Gail Simone, Artist: Jon Davis-Hunt) Clean Room is an absolute fever dream. The premise is simple: But what if the Scientologists are right? What if their endgame isn’t to take celebrities money, it’s to funnel it into projects to fight crazy demons or something! That’s Clean Room. But…
Amazon is gearing up to join the music streaming business. – David McNew/Getty Images Amazon plans to a launch a music streaming service as early as next month, according to the Financial Times. The company is reportedly wrapping up deals with the world’s largest record labels. In terms of price, Amazon would charge subscribers $9.99 a…
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(Photo: makeitstranger.com, via) Hey: Fuck Barb. SPOILER WARNING At this point, as per the strict rules of the internet, I have to now tell you that the below may contain “spoilers”, i.e. information that if read by you could ruin the experience of the Netflix series ‘Stranger Things’, as if Barb – her existence and…
“Stranger Things,” the breakout hit of the summer, is coming back for a new season in 2017, Netflix announced this morning. The new season will feature nine new episodes – one more than season 1 – with creators Matt and Ross Duffer returning as showrunners and writers. In a teaser trailer above, it’s evident that…
Warcraft made loads of money in China. China was awesome, obviously. It’s still a hotbed of Warcraft-playing. We actually had incredible success in most of Europe, too. The UK, similar to the US, got down on the film fairly early on. But in Russia, Germany, France, Spain, pretty much any European country, and in China…
For a few glorious weeks this summer, Fox News seemed as if it had emerged from a retrograde stupor defined, in part, by “leg cams,” the cinematic technique predicated on shooting broadcasters at thigh level, in favor of a period of enlightenment. After former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual-harassment lawsuit against the…
Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson star in Fox’s “Empire.”View Full Caption Fox CHICAGO — Teens and children at a Chicago juvenile detention center were confined to their rooms and banned from family visits for days so “Empire” could film at the facility, according to a new class-action lawsuit. The Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center…