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Facebook Inc. has spent the better part of a year telling its users, Congress and the readers of this paper that we’re in charge of our personal data and the ads we see. The network has streamlined its privacy settings, shared more details about how data is used and highlighted how its ad controls work. If we take advantage of all these privacy controls, it shouldn’t still feel as…
Early on in Megan Boyle’s experiment in live-blogging her life, she decides to take a bath. She’s trying to get it all down, but there are some difficulties: 12:22AM: bathwater is running. i’m just going ot do this until forever. ate half of some kind of pill, 1 mg Xanax ithink. ate other one […]…
‘The Happytime Murders’ Review: Melissa McCarthy’s Painfully Unfunny Puppet Noir Is an Utter Abomination The worst movie of the summer is here. /Author byline Share Tools /Share Tools IndieWire owes our readers an apology. Last week, in a moment of desperate optimism and/or extreme naïveté, this critic declared “Mile 22” was “far and away…
Is Collateral Beauty the worst movie of the year? Those were the whispers I heard before I headed into a screening this week, on the Christmasy Upper West Side of Manhattan. (Though, being just a few blocks north of the Trump International Hotel & Tower makes it hard to feel Christmasy, or really anything but…
“That’s L.A.—they worship everything and they value nothing,” sighs Ryan Gosling’s La La Land character Sebastian. I’m not sure if this is a critique or a mission statement. Perhaps it’s both. Certainly, a movie that forces you to endure Gosling and Emma Stone sing multiple songs is trading in the crass depths of celebrity culture….
When they were first announced in September, it was obvious that AirPods were Apple’s attempt to distract everyone from the iPhone’s lack of a headphone jack. At $160, AirPods are Apple’s version of truly wireless earphones, a gadget lots of companies have been trying to perfect with varying degrees of success. No one disagrees that…