Culture Archive
Archives for October 2014
On Wednesday, Warner Bros. and DC Comics dropped some absolutely monumental movie news: Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Shazam, Cyborg, and Green Lantern are all getting movies in the next six years.
They are brave, underpaid and on the front lines of fighting the Ebola crisis.
Anita Sarkeesian was forced to cancel an upcoming speech at Utah State University after threats of a mass shooting.
Uh oh. “This quarter we over-forecasted membership growth.”
Chris Roberts has written over 500 Amazon books reviews, many of them in verse.
OK Go, which has a new album out this week, have made some amazingly ambitious music videos. Here are my favorites.
Broad City twists a familiar story into something new, hysterical, and worth the afternoon you’ll lose after getting sucked in by watching the opening episode — which features the main characters Skyping each other while one of them is having sex.
HBO is about to change the way we watch their shows.
Plus, Macworld Expo, Microsoft’s YouTube takedown notice carpet bombing, and a North Carolina shark feeding frenzy.
The company will go “beyond the wall” and launch a “stand-alone, over the top” version of HBO in the U.S. next year.
On Monday night, Gotham showed a preview of an upcoming episode along with a blurb from the A.V. Club saying how much it loved the show. Unfortunately, no one at the A.V. Club actually wrote that.
This morning, investors get to hear how Time Warner thinks it can grow. HBO’s plans may be the most interesting.
Plus, poor Mark Zuckerberg, what happened to Windows 9 and the iOS Autocomplete Song.
The company has commissioned Margaret Stohl, one of the co-authors of the Beautiful Creatures series, to write a Black Widow young adult novel out due out next Fall.
On Monday night, Variety announced that Robert Downey Jr. is in the final steps of negotiating his next Marvel movie, and it isn’t an Iron Man or Avengers film.