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The animosity between the film industry and internet “aggregators” has been simmering since the summer, but it’s just kicked up a notch with the introduction of legendary director Martin Scorsese into the fray. Scorsese penned an excoriating essay against Rotten Tomatoes, Cinemascore, and other digital aggregation sites, calling them “hostile to serious filmmakers,” and a bane on […]
Charlie Brooker‘s sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror rarely features episodes with happy endings…or any semblance of happiness at all, really. It’s often a relentlessly bleak examination of the worst impulses of humanity, all told under the umbrella of an ominous warning about how our relationship with technology may eventually be the downfall of our society. It’s not the easiest show to watch – […]
(The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, a new video essay explores how Ridley Scott […]
(The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, listen to Michael Bolton‘s theme song for Game […]
(The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, The Defenders gets a Recap Rap in order […]
(The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, a video essay takes a closer look at […]
For every person who gets excited when a Hollywood studio announces that they’re adapting a bestselling book into a feature film, there are just as many who would rather not see a film adaptation ruin the text that they love so much. However, when it comes to cinematic adaptations of classic literature that seem to […]
Harry Forestell, host of CBC News: New Brunswick at 6, was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. On Father’s Day, he writes about how his daughter made his diagnosis the subject of an essay on life’s turning points — and the lesson he learned. CBC | Health News
Carolina Williams High school senior Carolina Williams was accepted into Yale after penning an essay about an unconventional topic — Papa John’s pizza. “When I saw that the prompt was ‘Write about what you love to do,’ my very first thought was order pizza from Papa John’s,” Williams told Business Insider on Wednesday. “I order pizza from […]
Facebook/phillipsacademy Each year, the New York Times puts out a call for college-admissions essays to the newest class of applicants who have written about issues of money, work, or social class. In 2017, it chose four of the most poignant essays published them on its site to showcase the essays’ power and honesty. One of the essays […]
