More Disney 2021 plans: Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Holmes, Y: The Last Man on FX
Raya and the Last Dragon, now coming to Disney+ simultaneously in March 2021. Disney held its 2020 Investor Day event on Thursday, and naturally the House of Mouse's high-profile franchises have...
View ArticleGamersNexus’ Steve Burke overclocks his YouTube channel’s best comments
Produced by Adam Lance Garcia, edited by Richard Trammell. Click here for transcript. (video link) GamersNexus has been a staple of our RSS feeds for more than a decade. The site has quickly become a...
View ArticleMother to Earth: When an NES prototype lands on eBay and inspires a documentary
The trailer for Mother to Earth At this point, a dozen years into the platform's existence, Kickstarter documentaries are by no means a new thing. Projects originating on it have gone on to earn...
View ArticleYouTuber Patrick (H) Willems has thoughts on movies—lots of thoughts
Produced by Adam Lance Garcia and edited by Parker Dixon. Click here for transcript. (video link) Around the Orbital HQ, maybe we need to pick a weekend to give The Tree of Life another shot. Because...
View ArticleCan you make a comedy set during COVID-19? Recovery takes the idea for a drive
The trailer for Recovery, which enjoyed its world premiere at SXSW 2021. The second edition of South by Southwest to take place in the middle of our in-progress pandemic just wrapped. Maybe this...
View ArticleHop on COVID-19’s most famous ship—the Diamond Princess—in HBO’s The Last Cruise
The trailer for HBO's The Last Cruise. Filmmaker Hannah Olson might be the only person to ever have two world premieres at South by Southwest while never having her work shown on a single screen in...
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The Emoji Story: You should never have this much fun learning about Unicode
The trailer for The Emoji Story. It's a shame that 2017's The Emoji Movie exists—though, by all means, get that money, Patrick Stewart (in the role of "Poop") and Maya Rudolph ("Smiler"). It's just......
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DC’s Rorschach: A detective walks into a world shaped by squids and superheroes
Enlarge / Thank you for giving me something to look forward to, DC Comics. (credit: Nathan Mattise) Warning: Though we'll take great pains not to spoil anything important from DC's ongoing Rorschach...
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Office default Calibri will join Clippy, Internet Explorer in Windows retirement
Rumor has it Calibri is already working on its goodbye note. [credit: Nathan Mattise ] In tech, all good defaults (that aren't the Mac startup chime, at least) must someday come to an end. Today,...
View ArticleInvincible S1: Clearly, TV’s most fun superhero shows are on Amazon these days
The trailer for Amazon's Invincible. The last few years have been great for viewers who enjoy standard-issue CW teen dramas (Gossip Girl forever!) but want a little something extra mixed in....
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Another media acquisition? This one would involve Amazon, MGM, and ~$9B
Enlarge / A man walks past a promotion for the James Bond fIlm No Time to Die at the closed Omega store in London on March 27, 2020. (credit: Jonathan Perugia/In Pictures via Getty Images) Amazon is...
View ArticleSweet Tooth review: Evidently The Walking Dead just needed a deerboy
The trailer for Sweet Tooth. Netflix's new fantasy series, Sweet Tooth, first looks like a crudely fictionalized version of 2020. A disease colloquially referred to as The Sick spreads rapidly among...
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Circling—or cycling—the track at F1’s famous Circuit of the Americas
Texas has its perks (at dusk, at least). [credit: Nathan Mattise (on a Pixel 3A) ] AUSTIN, Texas—As we rolled our road bikes toward the entryway, the friend who convinced me to do this shared a...
View ArticleDread Pirate Roberts escaped development hell: Making Silk Road work as a film
Trailer for Silk Road. In the last decade or so of Ars, two pre-COVID news stories stand out to me as the "biggest"—the kind of stuff that captivates a general audience in the moment and will attract...
View ArticleStrawberry Mansion: A great sci-fi premise with trippy, arthouse execution
The trailer for Strawberry Mansion. In the world of the artsy new sci-fi film Strawberry Mansion, society has developed the technology to record dreams. And in typical over-the-top Silicon Valley...
View ArticleTiong Bahru Social Club review: Won’t you be my algorithmic neighbor?
The trailer for Tiong Bahru Social Club Many of us can relate to, have related to, or will relate to Ah Bee, the young hero of the near-future, tech-fantasy film Tiong Bahru Social Club. He lives with...
View ArticleSamurai-themed sci-fi flick It’s a Summer Film! expertly slices expectations
The trailer for It's a Summer Film! When's the last time you had pure fun at the movies? For a lot of us, it has probably been at least 1.5 years, given the whole global health pandemic that has been...
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Mad God: What happens when the best practical VFX artist, ever, writes a film?
A teaser for Mad God. By now, anyone who would agree to the label of "film fan" knows the legendary Phil Tippett. Perhaps the greatest visual effects artist of the last 50 years (if not ever), Tippett...
View ArticleIké Boys review: If you love kaiju so much, why not just be one?
A clip from Iké Boys, now playing at Fantastic Fest 2021. Iké Boys, the debut feature from writer/director Eric McEver enjoying a world premiere at Fantastic Fest this week, will feel like a secret...
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The Every: When Big Tech rules all, don’t say Dave Eggers didn’t warn us
Enlarge / The TL;DR: A book so enjoyable, it even stands out when surrounded by tacos and Texas libations. (credit: Nathan Mattise (via his Pixel 3a)) The Every, a new near-future tech dystopia novel...
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