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If one thing's for certain, it's that Disney productions are tight-lipped affairs. Lucasfilm movies, Marvel flicks—these things are made under lock and key. So if you happen to ask people affiliated with those franchises, don’t be surprised if the answers they give are less than definitive. Take, for example, Ewan McGregor, the man who played…

With Disney's D23 Expo less than a week away, fans are about to get all the Star Wars news they can handle. And considering most of the Lucasfilm updates recently have been about the directors of the Han Solo standalone movie getting replaced by Ron Howard, the (presumably) good tidings from D23 won't be coming…

Six features into his career, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho has made what he calls his “very first love story.” And for Netflix, no less. But Bong being Bong—Snowpiercer was a batshit postapocalyptic thriller set aboard a globe-­spanning train—his new film, Okja, is no boy-meets-girl tale. Rather, it’s the story of a friendship between a…

My Twitter panic started somewhere in Spain. Six days into a 10-day vacation, the news about the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, started making its way to my phone. I wasn’t necessarily trying to unplug or do any kind of social media cleanse, but I hadn’t swapped my SIM so connectivity—and news access—came only…

The game of thrones has always been less of a battle and more of an art. Although weapons and armies are essential tools for its players, statecraft and spycraft are the defining forces that govern its winners and losers. You rule or you die not based on how many men you have but on how…

Of all the ways for someone to describe their job, when that job entails orbiting more Earth than 200 miles above the surface, “I’m just an astronaut” might be the most banal. But that’s exactly how Paolo Nespoli describes his role working with Darren Aronofsky on the documentary series One Strange Rock. Nespoli is being…

This is the story of two George Papadopouloses. The first is a former campaign advisor for President Trump, who made a plea deal Monday in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The second is a CPA with an office near a Best Buy in Novi, Michigan. One admitted…

As I followed the masses of people on Saturday morning toward the Center for Civil Rights, where the march was to kick off, the streets of Downtown Atlanta were bigger than I'd ever seen them. Hundreds of people flooded toward the museum, filling any open space accessible. Standing there waiting, surrounded by people, I realized…

Meet Mark. At 16 feet tall and 12 tons, Mark was built by Gui Cavalcanti and Matt Oehrlein to do one thing: destroy other machines. The two engineers are the founders of MegaBots, a startup almost as absurd as it is destructive. The company plans to stage bouts between piloted death mechs in an international…

From the moment he started imitating Donald Trump during the 2016 election, Alec Baldwin’s impersonation of the future president became a point of fascination. Twitter, blogs, The New York Times, even Trump himself had an opinion on Baldwin’s semiregular Saturday Night Live performances. Like Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin impersonation a few election cycles ago, the…