Every year since 2016 we’ve closed Buffer for a week at the end of the year. It’s like a reset, except across the whole company. The creator economy is “beautiful,” Bluesky says — and they’re going to be a part of it. This according to the decentralized social platform’s Chief Operating Officer, Rose Wang, who shared … Read more
Bluesky COO Rose Wang shares details about the platform’s plans to create a way for creators to monetize, along with a subscription model, in the coming months. The creator economy is “beautiful,” Bluesky says — and they’re going to be a part of it. This according to the decentralized social platform’s Chief Operating Officer, Rose Wang, … Read more
Remember the Retail Apocalypse around 2017? In a media interview this week, I brought up that it was actually Retail’s Big Split, not an apocalypse, and it’s ongoing. The reporter asked me to explain, so here’s my update for today’s retail landscape. “Everything gigantic in American life is about to get smaller or die.” … Read more
This article contains massive Nosferatu spoilers. Judging by his filmography, it’s probably safe to say Robert Eggers is not strictly a religious man. His first film did, after all, end with a Puritan girl finding liberation from her Calvinist upbringing by selling her soul to the Devil and floating above a fire fed by the … Read more
Galaxy Quest is a perfect motion picture. Argue with a wall … preferably one of the many chrome walls aboard the NSEA Protector. Released on Christmas Day 1999, well in advance of geek culture going fully mainstream, the Dean Parisot-directed film feels like it had early access to decades of modern internet debates, takes, and … Read more
This article contains spoilers for Squid Game season 2. There’s a fascinating meta-narrative threaded throughout the second season of Netflix’s megahit Squid Game. It’s about how little creator Hwang Dong-hyuk actually wants to make a second season of Netflix’s megahit Squid Game. Hwang, bless him, has been remarkably candid in discussing how he had no … Read more
It’s official: Aquaman and Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa has been tapped to play Lobo in the new cinematic DC Universe. After years of speculation, the actor confirmed his casting as the intergalactic bounty hunter via an Instagram post, with a simple caption reading, “They called.” DCU-head James Gunn validated this with his own … Read more
Should old acquaintances be forgot and never brought to mind? Frankly, we’re not certain of that any more than we are about the rest of the “Auld Lang Syne” lyrics. But as fun as it is to dwell on the year that was in cinema during this season—with awards voting at a full roar and … Read more
Like a tasty umbrella dalgona, perpetual Squid Game content is simply too juicy for the streaming world to pass up. Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos confirmed as much in his company’s 2021 fourth quarter earnings call, telling investors “Absolutely. The Squid Game universe has just begun.” While becoming a money-printing franchise was probably not the fate … Read more
This article contains spoilers for season 3 of Marvel’s What If…? The third and final season of Marvel’s What If…? is full of new and exciting peeks at worlds that exist outside of the MCU’s “Sacred Timeline.” From old Hollywood glamour to Russian buddy comedy hijinks to old West shootouts, this season certainly has fun … Read more