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But it wasn’t a fun kind of scare. It was the so-upset-I-feel-sick kind of amorphous dread. It Follows. Photo: Radius-TWC Filmmakers have many tools at their disposal for trying to scare an audience silly. Fancy special effects. LOUD NOISES. Things jumping out!!! Blood, pus, slime. Or else he or she can go for something less…
Conway Stern’s Profile In S06E02 of Archer, this image is displayed at 2:00. Under “FILE/SERIAL” there is a hexadecimal code. Translate the Hex Using an online hex translator we can translate the hex into readable text. This gives us tiny.ccpigly. The translator does not recognize the “/” so that ust be added where it would…
CNN tonight reevaluated “hands up, don’t shoot” in the wake of the DOJ report that it never happened, and brought on a panel that nearly came to blows arguing over the report’s findings and the “hands up” symbol. Brian Stelter filed a report on the media coverage of Ferguson and the gesture, even acknowledging the…
Glee — remember Glee? — the once enjoyable, then completely baffling, musical comedy about high-school glee club members ends its six-season run Friday, March 20, on Fox at 8 pm Eastern. The show ends with 121 episodes, seemingly every one a little more incoherent than the last. I reviewed the first three seasons of the…
The New York Times “First Draft” and Politico Playbook picked up the “Meerkat Election” idea today, so get ready for the hype cycle to wash through the commentariat. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush “meerkatted” yesterday — which is to say, used an app integrated with Twitter on his smartphone to livestream an event online. If…
Entry Text Azealia Banks did not hold back during her interview with Playboy for the magazine’s April 2015 issue, discussing topics like pervasive racism, her sex life and even Kanye West. The 23-year-old Harlem native, known for her no-holds-barred tweets, began her career sharing songs on Myspace and emailing producers for beats. In November, she…
6 Movies That Are Shockingly Different When You’re Not High Ever since Jon Stewart shook the world of journalism to its core by suggesting that Scent of a Woman is far better while stoned, it seems like our entire culture has centered around answering that age-old question: Does the modern man appreciate cinema better while…
No one knows who wrote this infamously bad, now-legendary <em>Harry Potter</em> fanfiction. Photo: Jed Egan and Photos: Warner Bros., Shutterstock Like Stonehenge or the works of Shakespeare, we’ll probably never know who was behind “My Immortal” — the massive Harry Potter–inspired text that is widely regarded as the worst piece of fanfiction ever written — but…
Entry Text Last week Trinidad James found himself in the midst of the controversy surrounding a viral clip showing a University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house mother repeating the N-word several times as his 2012 single “All Gold Everything” played in the background.Immediately following the backlash, the former Def Jam Records signee said…
UPDATE 3/16/2015 10:00 PM PT: Rafael Abuquerque and “Batgirl” co-writer Cameron Stewart have both taken to Twitter to clarify the reference to “threats of violence and harassment” in DC Comics’ statement concerning the cancellation of the “Batgirl” #41 variant cover. Abuquerque, the artist of the variant cover, wrote, “Ill talk more about it tomorrow…