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Welcome back to Video IRL, where several of our editors talk about what they’ve been watching in their spare time. This month we’re kicking things off with some seasonally-appropriate horror fare, that you can catch right away on Netflix or Amazon Prime. Then it’s time for a Gundam throwback before Kris Naudus points out a […]
Read a new short story from sci-fi author Nick Wolven. https://media.wired.com/photos/59cea374cf33d40c5aef0e59/master/pass/SciFiBookExcerpt-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
Author Charles Yu has a pretty convincing theory on why extraterrestrials would enjoy sci-fi. https://media.wired.com/photos/59ce87fd7e2d0b33ad2b19ad/master/pass/CharlesYu-FINAL.jpg Feed: All Latest
Welcome to The Water Cooler, a weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everything except the movies and TV shows they normally write about. In this edition: Hoai-Tran delights in new information on My Immortal, Jacob finally gets Blades in the Dark to his table, Ben visits Boston, Brad eats at a Ron […]
It’s the first of the month, so the streaming services have changed up their catalogs – which means we’ve got three ‘90s and ‘00s classics at your fingertips. And this week’s disc selection includes new Blu-ray editions for big hits from two of our favorite studio filmmakers. ON NETFLIX Requiem for a Dream: With Darren […]
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud (Fleet, £16.99) Julia and Cassie have been best friends since nursery school but, in the way of teenagers, the friendship has floundered. Troubled Cassie, who has a fraught relationship with her mother, has started hanging out with the cool, mean kids while Julie, daughter of a feminist, is heading […]
Enlarge (credit: Who Fears Death) If recent Hollywood deals are any indication, science fiction on TV is about to get even more interesting and complex. The trend started with the surprising announcement in late 2016 that Lin Manuel-Miranda’s next project—after completing his run on Hamilton and writing the music for Moana—would be to adapt Patrick […]
(Welcome to The Unpopular Opinion, a series where a writer goes to the defense of a much-maligned film or sets their sights on a movie seemingly beloved by all. In this edition: why the failure of Valerian the City of a Thousand Planets allows it to join the club of overlooked space fantasy that already includes […]
Call it hyperbole, an analogy, a metaphor, or a simile — but when it comes to reading the work of The Big Sleep novelist Raymond Chandler, we call it Chandlerisms. The author and screenwriter, born on this day, was full of snappy one-liners that made him — and his most famous character, private detective Philip […]
PH Celebrity reviews Stephen Mangan and Bettany Hughes THE DARK CIRCLE by Linda Grant ★★★★ Virago, £8.99 IT’S the end of the 1940s and Britain is slowly recovering from the pummelling it received during the Second World War. Attlee’s government is rolling out its socialist agenda, including the creation of the NHS, creating a social […]
