Catch up on the series’ key plot points before heading into Sony Santa Monica’s latest
God of War (2018)
As part of our new series of patron-supported Critical Compilations, today we tackle 2018’s God of War, brought together by Alon Lessel. Alon is a game critic, musician and Trotskyist from Is…
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shoc…
The Wild Story Behind Sergei Bondarchuk’s Epic War and Peace
The shoot went on for five and a half years, with brutal winters, actors threatening to quit, and the director suffering a heart attack.
Horizon: Forbidden West -- Anatomy of a Crowd Pleaser
Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective
Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
In its early days, the AI initiative known as Project Maven had its fair share of skeptics at the Pentagon. Today, many of them are true believers.
Notes on Apple TV Plus, streamer business models, and the Foundation series
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The Strange and Dangerous Right-Wing Freakout Over Ancient Apocalypse
How a Netflix series about the hunt for the lost city of Atlantis became yet another front in the culture war—and the latest example of elite conservatives going weird.
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's Ope…
An Instant New York Times Bestseller“A bestselling page…
Exploring Eora: Pillars of Eternity 1, 2, and Avowed
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
Collections: The Nitpicks of Power, Part I: Exploding Forges
This week we’re going to return to Amazon’s Rings of Power, as promised in the first post there were a plethora of smaller believably and realism issues with in the show that I wanted t…
Star Script Doctor Damon Lindelof Explains the New Rules of Blockbuster Screenwriting
“We live in a commercial world, where you’ve gotta come up with ‘trailer moments.’”
