The History-Making Multiverse of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. There have been few things more satisfying…
Sci-Fi Publishers Are Bracing for an AI Battle
It began with a tweet of a bar graph depicting a sharp rise in the month of February: Neil Clarke, the publisher and editor in chief of the science fiction…
How Sci-Fi Changed Who Gets to Go to Space
In the 1930s, three decades before Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, Buck Rogers had his own Western-like space adventures—in comic books and on…
The Biggest Threat to Humanity? Black Goo
Of course, you’re not supposed to know this. You’re not supposed to know that you’re being mind-controlled, right now, by a self-replicating mutagenic xeno-substance that was initially sold to us…
Alan Tudyk on His Favorite Sci-Fi to Watch Right Now
Alan Tudyk is no stranger to the world of sci-fi. The actor made a name for himself in space-heavy projects like Firefly and Serenity before zooming into shows and movies…
Netflix’s ‘Spiderhead’ Lacks the Charm of the Story It’s Based On
Per Netflix’s confusing proprietary data, in its first week of release Spiderhead was viewed for a collective 35 million hours. Theoretically, any sci-fi head should be stoked by the existence…
‘For All Mankind’ Is the Best Sci-Fi of Its Era
New Star Wars, new Star Trek, Russian Doll, Severance—these days sci-fi fans face an embarrassment of riches. On Friday, they will get even more with the return of For All…
‘Dredd’ Deserves a Better Place in Alex Garland’s Filmography
On Friday, the 51-year-old English writer-director Alex Garland’s new movie, Men, opens in theaters. Garland’s not a celebrity auteur on the scale of your Martys, your Quentins, your PTAs. But…
The Internet Gave Rise to the Modern Multiverse Movie
Like that verse-jumping device that Evelyn uses to tap into her other selves, the internet is its own kind of scrying glass. In the lives of others, so magnified, minute,…
Viral Video: Dog ‘Singing’ Along To Star Wars Theme Delights Internet
Researchers say classic music has a calming effect on dogs. (Representative Photo)A video of a dog “singing” along to a Star Wars song has taken the internet by storm, leaving…