Elon Musk Decides NPR Is Not State Propaganda After All
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided that NPR is not the same as media outlets like China’s Xinhua News, which is a well-known state propaganda machine, after all, even though…
Polling the Internet: Disinformation or Not?
This week, the New York Times reported that a tranche of classified material had leaked to the web. The documents, which were purported to involve the Pentagon and NATO’s military…
Domestic Violence Charges Against Rick and Morty’s Justin Roiland Have Been Dismissed
Justin Roiland attends the #IMDboat at San Diego Comic-Con 2019.Photo: Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb (Getty Images) After losing his gigs aboard Adult Swim blockbuster Rick and Morty—which he co-created,…
M3GAN Star Amie Donald on Dancing Her Way Into Our Nightmares
She was 11 when she filmed it, and is 13 now, but Amie Donald has indeed seen PG-13 horror smash M3GAN—in which she plays the title character. “I thought it…
Doctor Who’s Next Anniversary Project Turns Sooz Kempner Into Doom
Image: BBC Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary in November 2023 is giving the series a chance to go seemingly as bonkers as it wants. Shove David Tennant in as a new…
The Last of Us Blu-ray and Digital Releases Will Come Packed With Special Features
Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO What’s the point of buying a Blu-ray for a streaming series? Two big reasons: even for a hit HBO show like The Last of Us, there’s no…
The Last of Us’ First Season Went Out on a Ratings High Note
Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO Sure, The Last of Us season one finale aired the same night as the Oscars, but that didn’t stop fans of the HBO Max PlayStation adaptation from…
These Are the Best Free Roku Channels To Watch Now
Screenshot: Pluto TV Pluto TV is a regular fixture in picks of the best free Roku channels out there (of the thousands available), and with good reason: You get hundreds…
Open Channel: Let’s Talk About How Great Clancy Brown Is
Image: 20th Century Television/Hulu Just before the weekend started, news broke that beloved character actor Clancy Brown would be joining The Penguin, WB’s TV spinoff of the now one-year-old The…
Matthew Modine Narrates a New UFO Documentary and We’ve Got the First Trailer
A still from the new documentary Accidental Truth: The UFO Revelations.Image: 1091 Pictures A lot was happening in 2020 so there’s a chance you may have missed something—like the fact…