A 27-year-old CEO says too many company founders get a key element of leadership all wrong

Business Insider Whitney Wolfe When Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe first launched her dating app in 2014, she had a tiny team and a lot of doubters. “There was just a few of us,” 27-year-old Wolfe tells Business Insider. “Early on, when you’re starting a company, for every 10 people who tell you you’re crazy, you’ve […]

Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Element’ Video, and the Darkness Beneath the Surface

Ever since he became famous, Kendrick Lamar has seemed both interested in, and somewhat troubled by, the dualism of public image and private citizen, of person and persona. He’s well aware that these days, his public image is of being… if not cuddly, then definitely likable — Taylor Swift records Instagram videos of herself singing along […]

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s ‘The Fifth Element’ Vinyl with Artwork by Shan Jiang

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Luc Besson‘s outstanding sci-fi action movie The Fifth Element. The actual anniversary already passed us by on May 9th, but this week is when the film is being celebrated by a return to the big screen. Not only can you see the movie on the big screen again, […]

New ‘Valerian’ Poster Seems to Feature an Intriguing ‘Fifth Element’ Reference

This summer, director Luc Besson returns to sci-fi in a big way with an adaptation of the French comic Valerian and Laureline in the form of the feature film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The movie came in at #7 on our list of anticipated wide releases coming to theaters this summer, […]

SpaceX’s next Hyperloop contest will focus on one element: speed

Hyperloop technology promises an extremely fast commute for those living and working between cities, and while some may still raise eyebrows at its viability, there’s no doubting the determination of those involved in propelling the highly ambitious project all the way to completion. The idea for the ultra-fast transportation system is the brainchild of SpaceX CEO Elon […]

Toyota's FT-4X concept learned the wrong lessons from the Honda Element experiment

When you build a car, there are three groups of people that matter – a love triangle, if everything goes well. There are the marketers who figure out how to sell what the carmaker builds, the critics (read: us) who leverage our experience and knowledge to grade the thing, and then there’s the buyer. The […]

‘The Fifth Element’ Gets 4K Theatrical Re-Release With A Special ‘Valerian’ Preview

A 4K restoration of Luc Besson‘s The Fifth Element will be returning to movie theaters next month in celebration of its 20th anniversary. And alongside the visionary science fiction film will be an exclusive preview of writer-director Besson’s upcoming film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Find out where, when and how you […]

Luc Besson Shares Memories From ‘The Fifth Element’ and ‘Leon’

How was it working with Gary Oldman? Like driving a Ferrari for the first time, according to Luc Besson. The writer-director behind this summer’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets recently took to Reedit to promote his upcoming comic book adaptation. The gregarious filmmaker shared a few memories from some of our favorite works of his, The […]

At last, a new movie that’s as beautiful and insane as The Fifth Element

Thanks to the success of Guardians of the Galaxy, blockbuster sci-fi adventures can be trippy again. Bulbous monsters, sparkly outfits, zero-G hairstyles, starscapes that look like 1970s prog rock album covers—it’s all cool now. And that means, strangely, that the world is finally ready for a movie based on the 1960s comic book that started […]

The Fifth Element 2: Original director Luc Besson speaks out on sequel (EXCLUSIVE)

Now 20-years-old, the Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich sci-fi film has become something of a cult classic. At the time of its release, the movie completely split critics, being hailed as both the best and worst summer blockbuster of 1997. Now as director Besson prepares to release his latest futuristic sci-fi film, Valerian and the […]