At Sundance, Filmmaking and the Festival Contemplate Apocalypse and Rebirth Collide
Amid a farewell to Park City, two major AI documentaries reflect the end of a way of being
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Elon Musk
When Cars Are the Stars
We love movie cars so much that some of us pay serious money to buy real life ones
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Mining for Gold in a River of Panic
Marc Maron’s new comedy special ‘Panicked’ both hits and misses
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Is ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ Actually All That Timely?
Every generation has its own struggles. This play, which aired live on CNN this weekend, takes place 70 years ago.
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Bill Burr Is On A Freakin’ Tear
The comedian is going hard in the paint against billionaires…while also promoting a Broadway show
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The Case for Writers Staying on Twitter (X, Whatever)
Don’t leave just as the show’s getting good
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BFG Podcast #173: Post-Election Special
The rise of the Austin podcast bros and the fall of Hollywood
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America is Austin Now
With Trump’s win, the “say what you want” tech bro moves to the top of the cultural food chain
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Can Pixar Cut Its Way To Prosperity?
Staff layoffs may not be addressing deeper problems at the legendary animation studio
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The Year SXSW Sold Out To The Military-Industrial Complex
The tension between the artistic and tech sides of SXSW snapped
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Same Old Allstora
Ru Paul created an online bookstore to “provide a marketplace for all books,” and then almost immediately removed a bunch of books from the virtual shelves after online protests.
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Knives Out for ‘Glass Onion’
The mystery of the never-ending discourse
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Nothing Will Stop Review-Bombing
Online trolls can make or break a show’s reputation
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‘Planet of the Humans’ is a Reactionary Screed
The worst form of purity-test liberalism
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