Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
He’s crazy, she’s crazy, and, almost as an afterthought, they’re all the “Worst Heroes Ever”: Warner Bros.’ long-awaited “Suicide Squad” movie opens in less than two weeks, and ifthe trailers are any indication, it devotes a significant amount of screen time to The Joker and Harley Quinn. But while Jared Leto has done a great…
Harley Quinn has sported several memorable looks since her 1992 debut — across animation, comic books and video games — but perhaps none is as iconic as her original jester costume. As the fan-favorite DC Comics antiheroine leaps to live-action with director David Ayer’s “Suicide Squad,” an effort was made to bring the red-and-blue suit…
“Ghostbusters,” a revival of the 1984 original, hits theaters nationwide on Friday. As a reboot of a beloved, male-led science fiction film from the 1980s with a female-led cast, the reboot has proved somewhat controversial in the circles you would expect. But regardless of the quality of the film, it serves as a perfect demonstration…
Did you hear some weird noises last night, sometime between the hours of 7 p.m. and midnight? First there was a kind of saddest-trombone-in-the-world sound that went on for a while, followed by shouts of righteous joy and a multi-octave chorus of Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman.” The first, of course, was the sound of…
If an anti-Ghostbusters revolution is fomented on Reddit and no one upvotes it, are women actually funny? That’s more of a hypothetical sort of question, but the first part, at least, is based in reality. Yesterday, Reddit user Better_Butter321 proposed this bit of social-media subterfuge: No one upvoted it, though, suggesting that maybe, like the…
A few weeks ago, in a post about Taylor Swift’s breakup with DJ Calvin Harris, the inimitable celebrity-gossip blogger Lainey Lui asked an important question: “Is TMZ now officially the gossip voice for the men’s rights movement?” Based on the notorious online tabloid’s incredibly one-sided, or male-sided, coverage of celeb breakups in the last two…
Photo via Calvin Harris’s Instagram Famous singer Taylor Swift and Scottish man Calvin Harris are two people who used to be in a romantic relationship. Their relationship ceased at the start of last month. When romantic relationships come to an end, there is often animosity between the two once-involved parties and, in the case of…
Last week, we previewed 93 works of fiction due out in the second half of 2016. Today, we follow up with 44 nonfiction titles coming out in the next six months, ranging from a new rock memoir by Bruce Springsteen to a biography of one our country’s most underrated writers, Shirley Jackson, by critic Ruth Franklin….
When he’s choosing your music for you, Carl Chery, 37, is in Culver City, California, sitting at his desk in an office with no signage, trying to decide whether Drake and Future’s “Jumpman” (jumpman, jumpman, jumpman) has jumped the shark. Or sometimes he’s at home in his one-bedroom apartment on the border of West Hollywood and…
Vitaly Mansky’s documentary Under The Sun is really two films, threaded together: one a carefully crafted lie, and the other something closer to the truth. A child of the former Soviet Union, Mansky has spent much of his career recording life in post-communist Russia, while occasionally taking his cameras to places like Cuba, where some…