Why Does Jon Stewart Cower Before Power?
Jon Stewart has changed late-night television for the smarter, but The Daily Show’s satire kingpin has a way of cowering before powerful people when they come on his set for interviews.
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Ten Lessons Of The Environmental Movement, According To A Fierce Green Fire
I spoke with A Fierce Green Fire‘s director Mark Kitchell.
‘We Are Slaves To Fossil Fuels:’ Interview With Chasing Ice Director Jeff Orlowski
One of the things that amazes me is how incredibly conservative scientists are about climate change prediction. Their livelihoods and careers are based on being as accurate as possible, and if they’re not they’re looked at fringe and pushed to the outskirts of the community.
Cli-Fi: Why Isn’t Chasing Ice Up For An Academy Award?
“A nomination would be an incredible longshot. But our hope is that it would bring a lot of significant attention to climate change, because this is the issue of our time.”
Soda Cancer Sucks, I Deal With It
So…sodas. Here’s the deal: I loved sodas. OK, I still do. I’m down to one a week, which is an astronomical achievement. For all of us, really: Earthlings are addicted […]
Hyperreal Comedy and Real-Time Tragedy, With Carrie Brownstein
Certainly, that seems to be our deep-seated fear, that this kind of violence will become part of the fabric of our lives.
Atheists Battle Christians Over Nativity Scenes On My Lawn
A cautionary tale of too much religion, too much money and too little regard for citizens who think differently and don’t like to be called terrorists for doing so.
Exclusive: Alan Moore’s Occupy Comics Essay
Fans of Alan Moore and his prescient comics like V For Vendetta and Watchmen knew he’d one day anchor a revolution.
Exclusive: My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields Reflects On Arrogance, Confidence
“Funnily enough, we’re written about in a much more accurate way now than at the time, when it was just underwater guitar, millions of overdubs and mumbled vocals.”
Karen Berger’s Coolest Vertigo Comics
DC Comics has lost one of its most influential tastemakers with the news that executive editor Karen Berger will be stepping down.
World’s Most Wired: Black Mask’s Matt Pizzolo
Who knew we needed to kill comics to save them? Matt Pizzolo, that’s who.
Exclusive: Beautiful Noise Hits Kickstarter
“It has been a long road but this seems to be the only path forward.”
China Mieville’s Subversive Superhero Comic Dial H
The award-winning sci-fi writer’s worthy reboot of cult ’60s series.
What The Force? Disney Can Protect Star Wars, Says Fandom, George Lucas
Can an independent visionary who created a vast sci-fi entertainment multiverse really think that a pop-culture multinational can better protect his brainchild? You bet your asteroids, kid. And he’s not alone.
Novel Approach: 10 Book-Based Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Standouts
Transforming transfixing genre fiction into memorable cinema is no simple task.
Exclusive: Pinback’s Spacey Sherman
Pinback’s Rob Crow and Zach Smith touch down on a prehistoric planet in the new music video, “Sherman.”
Exclusive: Boots Riley Brings a Guillotine to Oz
The Coup‘s frontman is looking for our nation’s heart and power, as the 2012 general election nears.
Discordia Illustrates Greece’s Disaster Capitalism
Instead of investigating fear and loathing in Las Vegas, artist Molly Crabapple and journalist Laurie Penny tripped off to Greece.
Can TheNewNo2 Make It Home From Liam Lynch’s Sci-Fi?
Dhani Harrison’s dread zeppelin is led through a puzzling digital dreamscape in thenewno2‘s new video.
We Are Bilbo, Heading Off To Perpetual War
It is no irony that Jackson’s cinematic adaptations of Tolkien’s work have arrived in a world at war
Genndy Tartakovsky Schools Hollywood On Cartoon Physics
“We moved to completely copying realism. Maybe this is a good time to start going back to the old ways, where anything can happen.”
We Need To Go Where Star Trek: The Next Generation Has Gone Before
Star Trek’s longest-running television series, which alternately bored and blessed us all with a sci-fi optimism now long since buried, blows out 25 candles
Exclusive: David Lloyd’s Ballsy Occupy Comics Cover
“The timing is perfect, because as year two begins there is a lot of soul searching about what the movement means and how it can evolve.”
Geek The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Reboots For Millennials
One man’s crap made-for-TV movie becomes another fan’s Pythonesque art trip, and the popular tastes of the ensuing decades makes up the difference. Who’s your Walrus now?
Prince of Cats Is Straight Outta Shakespeare
Like many culture vultures, Wimberly is something of a reboot specialist.