Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Here’s a second, supplementary video we made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfQ_…And a new Twitter account about temp music we made: https://twitter.com/SoundsLikeTempWatch Dan Golding’s great response video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXsH…Off the top of your head, could you sing the theme from Star Wars? How about James Bond? Or Harry Potter? But here’s the kicker: can you sing any theme from a Marvel film?…
White supremacists are continuing their call for a boycott of upcoming Star Wars film Rogue One, accusing the film’s producers of promoting multiculturalism and an “anti-white” agenda, forward.com reports. “(((Star Wars))) Is Anti-White Social Engineering,” reads a Reddit post by GenFrancoPepe on the subreddit r/altright, including a gif showing the cast from the movie; according…
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In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean. As someone who considers Donald Trump grotesquely unqualified for the office he’ll soon hold (to the point where fear that he might win drove me to volunteer for Clinton, in spite of my deep-seated apathy and laziness), my…
GIF Even if there is growing fatigue when it comes to superhero movies, there’s no doubt that movies from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe are the best of the bunch. Heck, some Marvel movies are legitimately great films and even the not so good ones still have great actors playing fantastic characters. Basically, they’re all very fun…
“Save the Rebellion, Save the Dream!” Dammit, Rogue One, I’ve got a little something in my eye. As we near the premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, it’s clear the filmmakers have moved from the angsty rebellion angle (“This is a rebellion, isn’t it? I rebel.”) into one that focuses more on the…
Bee Movie is an hour and 35 minutes long, but now you can watch the whole thing in a little over seven minutes. This is thanks to Avoid At All Costs, a YouTuber devoted to remixing Jerry Seinfeld’s cult classic. Here’s a fun game. Every time someone says the word “bee”—which happens 172 times throughout…
It’s been a bad couple of years for explosion enthusiast Roland Emmerich. First, his gay rights drama Stonewall spawned accusations of whitewashing before being quickly forgotten by audiences. Then, his and frequent collaborator Dean Devlin’s Independence Day sequel, Resurgence, got blasted out of theaters by a giant laser beam of critical revulsion and audience indifference….
The political conflict of the Harry Potter novels was simple yet insightful: Some witches and wizards are racist scumbags who only value pureblood families, and the worst of them joined Voldemort’s crusade against muggleborns. J.K. Rowling explored this fascist allegory through examples of everyday discrimination, magical hate crimes, and the rise of an oppressive government,…
Uber says it has permanently suspended the driver. When Erika Szabo, a video game and anime YouTube personality, ordered an Uber on a Sunday afternoon following a guest appearance at a convention in Toronto, she was looking to get home quickly after a long day and shitty weather. Just as her Uber driver pulled up, however,…