How to Relive the Old Internet With Neocities
Remember using dialup in the 1990s? Back when the technology was new, the online world wasn’t overrun with corporations, and everyone was basically trying to figure out what the internet…
America Needs a New Thanksgiving Movie. Let’s Make It ‘Coco’
It’s an annual fall ritual for which few culture writers would want to give thanks. Every November, representatives from your favorite websites—including, yes, WIRED—gather to discuss Thanksgiving-week content. (Or “gobblecon,”…
Velma, Vampires, and Viewers: Streaming Is Re-Queering the Past
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Velma, dear reader, has always been a…
How a YouTube Sensation Became a Movie—12 Years Later
When the first Marcel the Shell short went viral, it was a bit of an accident. As cocreator Jenny Slate told Seth Meyers this week on Late Night, her then…
15 Oscar-Winning Animated Shorts Under 15 Minutes Long (and Where to Watch Them)
Screenshot: Feast/Disney+ The Academy Awards are upon us, and you still have a bit of time to catch up on the nominated films…but not a lot. Theater-to-streaming windows are shorter…
Industry Views on India’s Move to Form an Animation, Gaming Promotion Outfit
While presenting the Union Budget 2022 this week, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam announced the plans to set up an Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, and Comics (AVGC) promotion task force. It…
The Trouble With ‘Encanto’? It Twerks Too Hard to Be Popular
Encanto, Disney’s latest animated musical, would’ve been a perfect little movie, had two pressures not been exerted on it. The first is the pressure to end happiestly. Not happily, mind…
How Do You Get a Kid to Like You?
Photo: Tatyana Soares (Shutterstock) I love kids. I know how to change a diaper. I know how to sit back and groove to Encanto. But what I need to know…
10 Effortlessly Cool Anime You Should Watch Before Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop Comes Out
For fans of: mercenaries, action, moral ambiguity There’s a moral ambiguity at the heart of Cowboy Bebop and its rag-tag crew of mercenaries. Spike and the crew generally act for…
Meet the Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible
Those few feet to the whiteboard took Smith past the point of no return. No one wrote on Steve Jobs’ hallowed whiteboard. As Smith took the marker and scrawled—he doesn’t…