Are you a Necronomicon expert? Prove it by taking on our tricky Evil Dead horror franchise quiz

With Evil Dead Burn in theaters, how much do you know about the franchise?

This unpronounceable series of glyphs is an incredible side project from Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet)
This unpronounceable series of glyphs is an incredible side project from Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet)

Just why? ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(̸̢̛̼̞̭͋ͅ)̸͚̰͛̔̾̀̿͒͂:̴͓̞̑̌̂̆̊͋̀:̸͎̟̯̂̓̌ ҉     ͡ ͞ ͞ ͞ ҉● ࿀ ●  ࿀  ●   ҉⃝    ⃝͢ ͞   ͘ ͞⃝̕ ͢    ̛ ⃝    ̸ ̡  ͢⃝̧  ͡ ͡  ̀ ̧ ̢⃝͜    ҉  ͞ ͞ ⃝͞  ͞ ͡⃝  ⃝҉҈҉҈҉҈҉҈҉҈҉ :̶̢͙͙͕̠̩͆(̷̮͍͚̫͚͂̍)̵̳̗̊( ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥ What am I supposed to do with this? It’s un-Googleable. Unpronounceable. It doesn’t even render the same way on various platforms. It looks one way on YouTube Music. Another on Apple Music. And yet another on Bandcamp. Even the artist name ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ […]

I hate that I don’t hate this song made with Suno
I hate that I don’t hate this song made with Suno

I would never go so far as to say there’s no place for AI in music (I’m a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find music made with generative AI to be offensively boring, especially the outputs of Suno. So I’m having a bit of a tough time processing the fact that […]

‘Aliens’ at 40: James Cameron’s sequel is a sci-fi icon, but did you know he quit the movie twice?
‘Aliens’ at 40: James Cameron’s sequel is a sci-fi icon, but did you know he quit the movie twice?

Forty years ago, Aliens burst into our hearts, but this classic sequel nearly fell by the wayside due to some serious studio-created problems that saw James Cameron quit twice.

Orchid is a delightfully retro and approachable hipster synth
Orchid is a delightfully retro and approachable hipster synth

In 2017, I bought an old Magnus chord organ off Craigslist for $10. It’s one of my favorite music gear purchases. Electric chord organs let you play full chords with just a press of a button, making them perfect for aspiring singer-songwriters or fooling around at home. But chord organs largely fell out of favor […]

How Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ turned general relativity into the bad guy
How Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ turned general relativity into the bad guy

As Nolan embarks on “The Odyssey”, we look back on the sci-fi movie where time dilation is as cruel as any Greek god.

Think you’re the ultimate Tom Holland Spider-Man fan? Put your knowledge to the test against our Marvel mastermind in this tricky MCU quiz

Spider-Man: Brand New Day swings into theaters very soon — and we want to see how much you know about Tom Holland’s MCU career before it does.

This Gore Verbinski sci-fi comedy is one of the 3 underrated Hulu movies you should watch this weekend (July 18-19)

This weekend’s Hulu watchlist features a Gore Verbinski sci-fi comedy, Park Chan-wook thriller, and a grandmother turned action hero, all critically acclaimed.

The Call of Duty movie is set in the Modern Warfare universe, and it could lead to a whole franchise

Taylor Sheridan and Peter Berg are bringing the Modern Warfare storyline to theaters, with Paramount eyeing a broader Call of Duty universe.

Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff  that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney’s, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he’d roll into the company’s offices and offer […]