If you want to see the best of Reddit, go to r/WhitePolitics, r/faggots, or r/FatPussy. You will not find sickos and slurs there—not anymore, anyway. Instead, these subreddits are obsessed with, respectively: the color white, bundles of sticks, and rather large cats. In the past few years, Reddit communities once devoted to outré subjects, everything […]
Not to make this about politics or walls or borders or displacement, but Australian pop balladeer Troye Sivan’s “Lucky Strike” is all about politics and walls and borders and displacement. More specifically, it is about the negation of those thorny, unkind configurations. At first blush, the song is a cool, coy slowburner with pure intentions. […]
So, what happened last week? Not much; it was just another seven days in which everyone got excited about a movie with sad superheroes, President Trump got lauded for not ruining a former president's funeral, and everyone else awaited the latest from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. That's all pretty standard, right? Toss in the […]
For all their crustiness about new features, videogame fans seem to have enthusiastically endorsed one particular Newfangled Idea: selfies. Last year, the joyous Spider-Man allowed players to turn Peter Parker's lens on himself, with Spidey throwing peace signs or boastful jumps depending on where the shot was taken.1 Meme fodder, no question; also, as it […]
The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones will be bigger, badder, and hairier than ever. No, we're not talking about the saga—we're talking about the furs! Because that's literally all HBO sees fit (ha!) to show us. Earlier today, the studio released a collection of brooding character stills, notable mainly for the fabulous […]
This week has been a rollercoaster in the world of videogames. At the top of the news list? One of the biggest names in the industry will be leaving his post mid-April. Also, BioWare's Anthem is awfully buggy (but hopefully getting better) and the Steam store just got a little smaller. Read the full Replay […]
In the past seven days New York decided it didn't want Cynthia Nixon as its governor, Amazon's owner elected to get into the education business, and a series of gas-line explosions hit north of Boston. But on the plus side, we also had Mark Wahlberg’s schedule to look at and a new Dolly Patron/Sia collaboration […]
Before our conversation even begins, Barry Jenkins coughs up an apology. It’s the day before his latest film opens in theaters—If Beale Street Could Talk, an adaptation of the 1974 James Baldwin novel—and he’s in Philadelphia on business. It’s just past 10am, and the last corners of the city are rousing from slumber. “It’s a […]
It's here, it's here! It's finally here! The trailer for the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones dropped this morning and hoo boy is it a doozy. So many fights, so many stare-downs, so much talk of death! Related Stories Opening on a terrified-looking Arya Stark, the whole 100-second clip is a dark-hued […]
I haven't played Anthem as much as I've wanted to. I find it difficult to play. Not because it's a challenging game; it's not, really. It just bothers me. Something about it rubs me wrong. It feels thin and dull, in a way that personally frustrates me. Anthem, BioWare's newest, is a lot of things. […]