The Monitor is has weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Last week’s episode of Rap Sh!t featured a scene so smart, so poignant, that it’s incredible it was contained in just a handful of lines. While partying in a Miami club, a …
The Monitor is has weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Maybe Batgirl was always cursed. Joss Whedon abandoned the movie in 2018, a year after he took the helm, saying he “really didn’t have a story.” Soon thereafter, Birds of Prey writer …
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The Monitor is has weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Netflix’s latest crowd-pleaser, The Gray Mancost a reported $200 million—a price tag similar to that of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. An action-y spy thriller starring Ryan Gosling, Ana de …
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The Monitor is has weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. When it premiered six years ago, Westworld epitomized prestige sci-fi at its peak. An expensive HBO series with an old-school Michael Crichton pedigree, it featured a stellar cast and a mind-trippy premise: …
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The Monitor is has weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Living in America can all too often feel like deja vu, Groundhog Day but with less Bill Murray piano-playing. Its citizens wake up to a nation recovering from yet another mass shooting …
The Monitor is has weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. The cat is wearing a blond wig. From the bottom corner of the frame, a tiny plastic hand, attached to an index finger, comes and swipes the orange feline’s whiskered snout. The …
The Monitor is has weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. On this year’s May the Fourth, like clockwork, a new piece of Star Wars news dropped: a trailer for the forthcoming Disney+ show Obi-Wan Kenobi. Previous Star Wars Day announcements have included …