Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The free video-streaming upstart is starting to rival the larger site for traffic in some countries, but it isn’t necessarily doing anything illegal. Popcorn Time In January, Netflix, the online video streaming site, used its quarterly letter to shareholders to take aim at a rival. Not the premium-cable channel HBO, with which it’s locked in…
Sir Ridley Scott has made some of the greatest genre movies of all time, but in the last several years, he’s also made some horrible mistakes. But his misfires and missed opportunities pale before the grievous error he’s about to make: creating a sequel to Blade Runner. The original Blade Runner is a science fiction…
“Robots will take over the world.” It’s a familiar refrain from movie scientists, conspiracy theorists, or your paranoid friend after he saw a TV special on autonomous cars. As artificial intelligence research accelerates in sophistication, it has also set off alarm bells and calls for caution from some of the brightest minds in the world,…
Will Eisner at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con; Cover of ‘A Contract With God.’ (Eisner photo by Alan Light) Welcome to Will Eisner Week, which runs through March 7 and celebrates the legacy of the comics great. Eisner, who died in 2005, is widely considered to be the inventor of the modern graphic novel,…
Last week, director Joseph Kahn dropped his “dark as f*ck” POWER/RANGERS short. Soon, it was pulled from the internet, but now it’s back in full NSFW glory. So what happened? In an exclusive interview, Kahn explains how the internet saved his short. Plus why he doesn’t think the real Power Rangers show should be this…
Playing through Homeworld again after all these years is weird. Games are forever changing. Usually, they’re advancing. They progress not just in terms of visuals, but design. Shooters, for example, change the way you take cover and recover damage, while stealth games have developed smoother controls and give the player a greater awareness of what’s…
Photo Barnes & Noble will now keep the Nook business. Credit Scott Olson/Getty Images Barnes & Noble said on Thursday that it would spin off its college bookstores business into a separate publicly traded company, changing up its breakup plans. Originally, the retailer had planned to part with the education division as part of a…
Photo The dress, seen in a photo from Caitlin McNeill’s Tumblr site and quickly posted on social media sites. The mother of the bride wore white and gold. Or was it blue and black? From a photograph of the dress the bride posted online, there was broad disagreement. A few days after the wedding last…
WP 3.5 Gallery Redesign end .slider-actions end .slider-social Images like this one of Scarlett Johansson as Skrillex went everywhere online in the fall of 2013 after someone posted a photo on Reddit of the actress falling. Images like this one of Scarlett Johansson as Skrillex went everywhere online in the fall of 2013 after someone…
On Wednesday, J.J. Abrams was honored with the Visionary Award at the Visual Effects Society Awards. In a conversation with Collider on red carpet, the “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” director discussed the upcoming “Star Wars” film, CGI versus sets and Simon Pegg and the next “Star Trek” film. Abrams also addressed a major…