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Detective Pikachu is… surprisingly good. It’s far better than it should be for what it is. Seriously. Catch it in theatres. Via the Verge: As a piece of storytelling, the live-action Pokémon movie Detective Pikachu fails spectacularly. Warner Bros. has the impossible task of trying to make the film appealing and likable for a movie-going […]
If you didn’t like the new Sonic the Hedgehog live action trailer, check out this hilariously surreal animation that’s gone viral on the internet.
Thistles and Thorns is a fairytale about the adventures of a young girl called Assata trying to bring magic back to the Garden of Sisterhood.
Power is Power is a tie in single by SZA, The Weeknd, and Travis Scott about everyone’s favourite tv show, Game of Thrones. Via io9: The only thing Game of Thrones’ last season was lacking was, let’s be real, a great tie-in album, and now it’s got one. For the Throne, out now, is an […]
Life and Love in Advertising as told through a series of ads is a short film by director Ben Callner, whose Superbowl spot Goat 4 Sale was highly regarded. Via Adweek: What happens when you successfully crash the Super Bowl? For 10 years, Doritos offered aspiring commercial directors the chance at Big Game ad glory, […]
Jeff Bridges is an actual bridge in this strange if funny Amstel ad, which was created by Adam & Eve/DDB for the Heineken-owned beer company. Via B&T: In a role he was born to play, actor Jeff Bridges has been turned into an actual bridge for Heineken-owned beer brand Amstel’s latest ad campaign. The strange […]
Watch Rilakkuma and Kaoru on Netflix, a surprisingly bleak slice of life stop motion animation about working class life in Japan. Yes, we thought it was cute too, up until Kaoru swiftly gets a pay cut in the first ep and is abandoned by her friends. Via Gizmodo: No one ever stops to ask why […]
The first faked photograph — by the true inventor of photography, an amateur French tinkerer named Hippolyte Bayard, made in protest. Via the Nonist: This photograph, shot in 1840 and titled Self Portrait as a Drowned Man, is not of a drowned man, and if it had been it would be far less interesting or […]
Old Town Road is the surprise viral hit of 2019, partly due to the instant controversy that was sparked when Billboard removed it from its country charts. Via Pitchfork: Atlanta rapper Lil Nas X is the country-trap star who never was. His viral hit, “Old Town Road,” was removed last week from Billboard’s Hot Country […]
This hilarious ad for Ladder involves Arnold Schwartzenegger and LeBron James with their duelling gym playlists… and a muted Coachella guy. Via Adweek: If you don’t know that Ladder was founded by an eclectic group of A-listers—Arnold Schwarzenegger, LeBron James, Cindy Crawford and Lindsey Vonn—you might wonder how a supplement startup could afford the kind […]