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Everybody is launching their own streaming service these days. Apple, Disney, YouTube…and Nicolas Winding Refn. Yes, the director behind Drive and The Neon Demon is setting up his own website where he plans to stream films and host essays. Now, the director has announced several cult classics he plans to make available to stream first. In a […]
Brazilian cult hero fan Tomer Savoia is enjoying his World Cup experience so much that he has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to grant him citizenship. Savoia shot to fame in the World Cup host country after a viral clip showed him demonstrating his colorful Russian skills, shouting “Russia is f***ing awesome, bro,” ahead […]
Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Buc-ee’s is a convenience-store chain with a cult following across Texas. The chain serves as a super-sized highway pit stop complete with “world-famous” bathrooms, branded t-shirts, a beef jerky bar, a wide-ranging home decor section, and fresh-made fudge. We visited Texas to see if Buc-ee’s could live up to the hype, and […]
Microsoft didn’t have much success with the original Xbox in Japan, but it did manage to create a few games by local developers that were coveted by fans of the platform. The mech game Metal Wolf Chaos made by From Software (Dark Souls) was one of those, and even though it never saw a US […]
Its slapstick comedy made household names of Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle. Some of the team reunite on Radio 4’s The Reunion today. Appearing are Planer, Sayle, writer Lise Mayer, Chris Ryan, who played Mike, and Stephen Frost, who played a number of roles. Edmondson declined to take part. Mayer, 58, […]
(Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best, wackiest, and weirdest foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.) It’s nearly the end of March and spring is in full bloom. Or at least, it’s supposed to be. Four days into spring, and the northeast has already been ravaged by a massive snowstorm, […]
Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here is such a movie. This instant cult classic, a hit at last year’s Cannes, features a career-best Joaquin Phoenix as a troubled hitman tasked with rescuing a senator’s daughter (Ekaterina Samsonov) from a New York paedophile ring. It’s a brutal and at times gruesome film but it’s impossible […]
Readers of a certain age will, at some point in their lives, have become so frustrated trying to solve the classic 80s Rubik’s Cube puzzle that they’ve flung it against a wall. This video finally offers some payback. If you too have experienced this rage, you’ll undoubtedly enjoy watching a robot try to solve one […]
BrewDog BrewDog released a “beer for girls” called Pink IPA, intended to satirize the beer industry. However, many women saw the beer as part of the problem. One Twitter user responded: I’m “so tired of brands doing lazy stunts in the name of equality & then when it falls flat trotting out the old ‘oh […]
GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images Earlier this week China announced it would be ending term limits for its president. That means President Xi Jinping, who was limited to two five-year terms like nearly all of his predecessors, can rule indefinitely. The change sparked a backlash online, with criticism flooding local Weibo and WeChat platforms. Unsurpringly, popular phrases were […]
