The 30 Best Animated Movies You Can Stream Right Now
From the earliest days of cinema history, cartoons were never just for kids, and it’s important not to confuse the medium with a genre. Animation has produced movies that are…
12 Podcasts That Will Improve Your Work Life
Work sucks, I know. (All work except writing these articles, I mean.) Whether you need tips to clear specific work hurdles (not getting a raise; confronting your coworker about stealing…
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,”…
The Biggest Reveals From Disney’s D23 Expo 2022
D23 Expo, Disney’s annual event for showcasing all future projects, kicked off on Saturday. The assembly, held at the Anaheim Convention Center, was live streamed across multiple online platforms, with…
What’s New on Disney+ in August 2022
Dang, Disney+. I know I made fun of you last month for not premiering anything good, but a new Marvel show, a new Star Wars show, a major Pixar premiere,…
Microsoft, Meta and Others Form Metaverse Standards Forum Without Apple
Meta, Microsoft and other tech giants racing to build the emerging metaverse concept have formed a group to foster development of industry standards that would make the companies’ nascent digital…
‘Lightyear’ and the Fight Over Queer Visibility
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. The timing on Lightyear could not be…
Russia May Ease Piracy of Games, Movies to Counter Western Sanctions
Russia is planning to relax rules governing intellectual property rights to offset the sanctions imposed by Western nations in response to its military offensive against Ukraine. Recently, the Russian Ministry…
‘Turning Red’ Doesn’t Follow Pixar’s Rules. Good
In 2017, director Domee Shi had just finished Bao, a Pixar short in which a woman’s bao bun lunch comes to life and grows from an adorable dumpling into a…
Turning Red Movie Review: Growing Pains for Pixar in Finding the Next Gen
Turning Red — out Friday on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — is only the third original effort in Pixar’s 27-year history of releasing movies to be centred on a female…