Enlarge / Pink vs. blue—innocent gender self-expression or material wealth creating more entrenched gender stereotypes? (credit: lambda’s / flickr) In Sweden, girls are just as likely to go to school and university as boys are. Women make up a greater proportion of the country’s professional and technical workers than any other country in the world. […]
Tag: paradox
The Productivity Paradox: What Is It And How Can We Move Beyond It?
It’s a depressing adage we’ve all heard time and time again: An increase in technology does not necessarily translate to an increase in productivity. Put another way by Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” In other words, just because our computers are getting […]
Ars on your lunch break, week 4: Fermi’s Paradox and the empty universe
Hello, universe? It’s us, Earth. (credit: Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, and UKSTU/AAO) This week we’re serializing yet another episode from the After On Podcast here on Ars. The broader series is built around deep-dive interviews with world-class thinkers, founders, and scientists, and it tends to be very tech- and science-heavy. You can access […]
‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ Went to Netflix Because Paramount Didn’t Want a Box Office Failure
While it’s usually the commercials that dominate water cooler chatter the day after the Super Bowl, this year, movie lovers had something else to talk about. The Cloverfield Paradox, the third installment in what has become a makeshift sci-fi franchise featuring a series of vaguely connected stories from Bad Robot and Paramount Pictures, surprised everyone […]
Netflix Trailer Round-Up: ‘6 Balloons’, ‘Paradox’, ‘Sun Dogs’
Since Netflix will be releasing a mind-blowing 700 original movies and TV shows this year alone, it’s going to be increasingly difficult to keep track of all their content you should have on your radar. With all of those pieces of content to distribute, the streaming service has released a batch of new trailers, and […]
Gugu Mbatha-Raw on ‘A Wrinkle in Time,’ ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ Going to Netflix, and More [Interview]
English actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw isn’t a household name yet, but I feel like it’s only a matter of time. She’s already headlined a quiet romantic drama (Beyond the Lights), a sci-fi thriller (The Cloverfield Paradox), and what might be the best episode of the anthology series Black Mirror (season 3’s “San Junipero”). In Disney’s A […]
Daily Podcast: Cloverfield Paradox, Transformers, Dr. Seuss, Fullmetal Alchemist, Killer Teddy Bears, Isle of Dogs
On the February 16, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest news, including Cloverfield Paradox viewership, Transformers universe reboot, a Dr. Seuss biopic, the Fullmetal Alchemist trailer, a killer teddy bear movie and the […]
Here’s What Happens When You Sync ‘Cloverfield’ and ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’
It’s been less than three days since Netflix surprised the world by releasing The Cloverfield Paradox immediately after the Super Bowl. If you think that’s not enough time to pinpoint incredibly obscure Easter eggs, you don’t know Cloverfield fans. These people are hardcore, and someone has already discovered a surprisingly cool thing that happens when […]
Daily Podcast: HUGE Star Wars Movie News, and Our Cloverfield Paradox Review/Reactions
On the February 6, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the big news: Game of Thrones creators are making a series of Star Wars films. And in […]
/Filmcast Ep. 453 – The Cloverfield Paradox & Call Me By Your Name
Jeff, Devindra and Kristy join up to chat about Netflix’s big Super Bowl surprise, The Cloverfield Paradox. And they finally get to explore the idyllic Italian countryside of Call Me By Your Name. No peaches were harmed during the making of this podcast. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at […]
