All Popkulturist film and television coverage, newest first. Some pieces wait until the credits have stopped rolling for good; others arrive before I've seen the thing at all, when the conversation around it is what's worth writing about. Criticism rather than coverage.
A free Australian YouTube cartoon topped cinema charts across Europe, then posted its finale online for nothing. How a Sydney studio beat the studios at their own game.
The villain of 'Toy Story 5' is a tablet. The studio warning your kids off screens is the one that taught a generation to sit still and watch.
Martin Scorsese has become an adviser to the German AI firm Black Forest Labs, and the film unions are furious. A note on what a famous name actually buys.
Last Tuesday at the press conference for 'Fjord', Sebastian Stan refused to laugh at a Trump question. Four days later, his director Cristian Mungiu took home the Palme d'Or for what he calls a meditation on "left-wing fundamentalism." Notes on what Cannes chose to crown.
'Darkman' aired on German TV one night in the early nineties. I was thirteen, maybe fourteen, already keeping mental lists of directors, watching a man in bandages set things on fire with a kind of glee I didn't know movies were allowed to have. The name in the credits was Sam Raimi.
