This week, pop culture had lots to get excited about: Steven Spielberg’s intriguing new sci-fi film; long-awaited horror comedy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; our first glimpse of the (new) star of The Witcher; more details about Australia’s mini-theme park celebrating all things Bluey, and beyond! - Cheryl Eddy
Although most view tic-tac-toe as a kid’s game, puzzle designers see it as a canvas. I think the game’s simplicity almost taunts people—is a 3x3 grid with only two possible symbols really going to stump you? Yet members of the puzzle community continue to devise ingenious little twists to keep the game fresh and…
Summer movie season is kicking off in full swing this week, between glitzy debuts at Cannes, and our first thoughts on incoming blockbusters like Furiosa. But it seems neither you or we could escape the absolute nightmare of John Krasinski’s bizarre new fantasy film, If. Click through to see our thoughts there, as…
If you haven’t seen before why eight ‘buffalo’ strung together form a valid English sentence, then strap in for a linguistic trip. Buffalo has at least three meanings: as a collective noun it refers to bison, as a proper noun it’s a city in New York, and as a verb it means to bewilder. The eight-buffalo sentence uses…
May the 4th be with you! But if you’d like to read some things that aren’t about Star Wars this Star Wars Day, our most-read stories of the week have you covered, from Captain America merchandise to critical reflections (and not quite so critical ones) behind the scenes of Marvel, our continued look back at the Planet…
The world it takes place in may have ended, but Fallout will continue—the Prime Video adaptation of
Dune: Part Two’s success can never escape the shadow of the wormussy. Yes, even as the smash hit movie heads home, we’re all still talking about that popcorn bucket, as much as AMC probably wishes at this point we’d rather not. But it’s not all sandworms in this weeks news—CinemaCon, Civil War, and even Jedi Shaggy…
A new month means a whole new news cycle—and things to watch, read, and build, of course. It also means we covered a lot in this week you might have missed, from Daisy Ridley’s Jedi hopes, to The Winter Soldier’s 10th anniversary, and yes, maybe even a few sapphic anime stars in the sky. Check it out! — James Whitbrook
