Both movies tell similar stories. And both arrived on the same day, "at a moment when stories of crumbling empires plundered by deceitful despots feel distinctly apropos.” - Slate
Sarah Zhang of The Atlantic: “Sometimes, before I understand intellectually why a story is interesting or good, if I feel myself emotionally gravitate to a story, it probably means there’s something there.” - Nieman Lab
Well, this is a cheery article. “There are fewer than two months—and honestly, about one month with the holidays—to shore up your institutions to make them as strong and solid for the community as possible.” - Book Riot
"Some analysts expected that Donald J. Trump’s victory in the presidential election would cast a glow over the art market after seeing the prices of some stocks, cryptocurrencies and the dollar lift shortly after his win.” And yet, no. - The New York Times
“Traditional TV has been declining for decades now, for myriad obvious reasons. But the NBC/SpinCo situation may be representative of an even grimmer media trend: powerful corporations choosing to expedite the devaluation of the cable industry altogether.” - Slate
Or at least movie theatres and cinematic releases. “In spite of some directors’ unhappiness, Apple seems set on being cautious with its theatrical risks from now on.” - The Verge
Ronan Farrow’s new article argues that we’re all at risk of being hacked - by our own government. “When it happens in a democracy … , it creates a sense of disorientation: ‘Could this happen to me? Here? Really?!’ And yet it can, and it does.” - The New Yorker
“Small communities roll out the red carpet for filmmakers, but there’s not always a happy Hollywood ending.” Take this devastating fire on the set of HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. - Los Angeles Times
“Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a mathematician astray.” Take the bunkbed hypothesis. - Wired
That’s Glick-ed, Gladiator II plus Wicked. Obviously. But: “Is this now what it takes to fill theaters? Movies, especially ones like Wicked, a mega-spectacle with mega-reviews based on a mega-musical, used to be able to commandeer the culture by themselves.” - The New York Times
“When your homeland has been under foreign control for centuries, your tastes are inevitably shaped by that reality—by the culinary traditions the colonizers bring with them, and by the attempts to maintain traditional flavors in the face of erasure.” - The Atlantic
