8 Free Streaming Services to Save You From Subscription Hell
Peacock TV also throws in a few “channels,” in case you’ve got decision fatigue, with dedicated streams of The Tonight Show, Today, and yes, a 24/7 Real Housewives fix for…
Coder Dee Tuck Is on a Mission to Help Diversify Hollywood
Dee Tuck has heard all the excuses. “I want to hire more women, but I just don’t know where they are.” Yep. “I want to hire more people of color,…
The Knives Out Sequel Seems Made for the Internet
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. To begin, a casting announcement. Three of…
One Thing Covid Didn’t Smash to Pieces? Monster Movies
Part of it is O’Brien’s charm, coupled with his creaky, perma-pubescent voice, which the script has its clever way with. The other part is the monster effects, which seem about…
‘Sisters With Transistors’ Puts Women Back Into Music History
During World War II, women took on a lot. With American men shipped overseas, they worked in aircraft factories, made munitions, flew planes. Most people know this, or at least…
Black Pain Will Never Stop Trending
What is an image worth? Specifically, what is the image of a dead Black man worth? If you had to guess, how much do you think an image of a…
How Pixar Uses Hyper-Colors to Hack Your Brain
Take the scene where the old ghost Chicharrón dies unremembered in the Land of the Dead. It’s a tear-jerking sequence, but the color palette is still just as wide (though…
Oscars 2021: Time to Watch Yet Another Covid-Era Awards Show
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Four hundred and 39 days ago, the…
Why a James Bond Film Will Never Premiere on Netflix
In 2011, movie studio Universal Pictures announced that it would be carrying out a test: It would put out its new film, Tower Heist, on video-on-demand just three weeks after…
Falcons, Lokis, Nerd Canons, and Why You Don’t Have to Care
One question might occur to anyone watching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a good show so far, shaping up into a look at race politics in America, and also…