Accidental history—remastering the campy teen horror game Congress famously hated

A scene like this doesn’t exactly scream “2017 video game.” And yet… Night Trap might not seem like a game that would be especially cumbersome to port to modern consoles. Among the first in the oft-forgotten early-’90s trend of “FMV (full motion video) games,” the title was nothing more than a lightly interactive series of […]

Famously Infrequent Canceler Netflix Cancels ‘The Get Down’

Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down explored nothing smaller than the birth of a large portion of the music we listen to today: the pioneering hip-hop and disco made by marginalized youngsters living in the South Bronx during the 1970s. But because it was a Baz Luhrmann production, it wasn’t just the subject that was huge in its scope: so was […]

How ‘The Leftovers’ got that ‘famously impossible’ Wu-Tang Clan song for the new episode

HBO Warning: Spoilers for the most recent “The Leftovers” below. If there’s one thing the HBO series “The Leftovers” has proven over its brief three-season run, it’s that the show loves to shock. And Sunday’s episode was no exception. From the revelation that there might be a way for Nora (Carrie Coon) to see her […]