World of Warcraft is still a massive beast in 2020. Sure, it isn’t bringing in the numbers or has the impact that it had in the early days, it’s still a much-lived and heavily...
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Official Mario Levi’s Go On Sale Tomorrow Because There Is No God
Nintendo has partnered with Levi’s in what can only be considered the end result of a night of drunken debauchery between two out of touch executives. Oh well, at least there’s someone out there...
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The Quarantine Playlist: Apocalypto
Every criticism of Mel Gibson as a person is valid. He’s racist, homophobic, sexist, and anti-Semitic. By any conceivable metric, he is a piece of shit. This isn’t the place to litigate Gibson. That...
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The Quarantine Playlist: Anatomy of a Murder
There’s something so inherently American about the legal drama. It’s the idea that our institutions work the way they’re supposed to, the idea that fairness and right will win out in the end. It’s...
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The Quarantine Playlist: Amistad
When you found your own film studio, you can do whatever the hell you want. It’s common knowledge. That’s not quite what Steven Spielberg did after co-founding Dreamworks, but it’s close. He wanted to...
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The Quarantine Playlist: The American Friend
It’s all about escape, and identity, in Wim Wenders’ The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game. Wenders’ film is hallucinatory and dreamlike where Highsmith’s prose is calculating, and the result...
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The Quarantine Playlist: Alien: Resurrection
If there didn’t exist a venerable franchise based around the word Alien, would anyone have gone to see a movie called Alien: Resurrection? It’s an objectively stupid, terrible title, better suited for something that...
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The Quarantine Playlist: Alien 3
What an impossible task first-time director David Fincher had in front of him: make a (mostly unnecessary) follow-up film to Alien and Aliens, two films that represent the apex of the horror and action...
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Leaked Docs Show TikTok Prioratizes Pretty People
TikTok seems like a fun little app where the young folk share clips of themselves doing silly stuff, but the owners of the company are some accused of doing some really dirty shit to...
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Best Buy Limiting In-Store Customers to 10-15 At a Time
The coronavirus is wreaking havoc and Best Buy is taking precautions by limiting customers inside its stores to 10 to 15 at any given time beginning on March 23. This move comes after a...
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Disneyland To Close In Response to Coronavirus
The Walt Disney Company released a statement that Disneyland and California Adventure parks will close on Saturday (3/14/20) in only the fourth time in company history. The parks will be closed through the rest...
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Jif Peanut Butter Seeks To Settle “GIF” Pronunciation Debate
Choosy moms choose Animated PNG. Look, we’ve all had the conversation. Is it GIF with a hard “G”, or soft? Heretofore, none have managed a definitive answer. But that’s what Jif peanut butter plans...
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