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SXSW’s Reality Check

March 18, 2026March 18, 2026 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments AI anxiety, AI culture, Alanis Morissette, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV Plus, artificial intelligence, Austin Convention Center, Austin Texas, Boots Riley, Demi Moore, Disclosure Day, Ego Nwodim, Eric Andre, festival culture, Film festival, future of media, HBO comedy, I Love Boosters, John Carney, Keke Palmer, Larry David, Mark Zuckerberg, media consolidation, metaverse, music festival, Nick Jonas, Paul Rudd, Penske Media, Ready Player One, robotics, South By Southwest, Spotify showcase, St Vincent, Steven Spielberg, streaming industry, SXSW 2026, Taylor Sheridan, tech conference, The Madison TV show, Will Ferrell, You Oughta Know

Austin’s annual bacchanal of tech, movies, and music South by Southwest faces its biggest challenge yet: staying human

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We’re Loving the 80s to Death

January 4, 2021January 6, 2021 Rob Kutner 0 Comments Cobra Kai, Ready Player One, Ready Player Two, Stranger Things, The Americans, The Goldbergs, Wonder Woman 1984, WW84

A Gen-Xer’s Plea to stop talking about his generation

Ready Player Two

Ready Player Two Gets DCMA’ed

December 2, 2020December 3, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Ballantine Books, Ernest Cline, Laura Hudson, Ready Player One, Ready Player Two

Publisher removes excerpts of the novel from Twitter as users turn it into a meme

Ready Player Two

Ready or Not, it’s ‘Ready Player Two’

November 24, 2020December 2, 2020 Daniel Cohen 17 Comments Depeche Mode, Ernest Cline, Jordan Peterson, Prince, Ready Player One, Ready Player Two, Steven Spielberg

Bad sex scenes, virtual-reality nonsense, and 80s trash-culture pastiche

Deadpool

What Sucked In Movies This Year

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 Stephen Garrett 1 Comment Deadpool, Fantastic Beasts, Game Night, Incredibles 2, Mission Impossible, Ready Player One, Roma, Solo, The Predator, Tom Cruise

Some Things Were Good, But More Things Weren’t. Like These Things.

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Smoking Hot Prudes Rock for ‘One Night Only’

August 9, 2026August 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

Authoritarian science fiction never looked so sexy

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BFG Podcast #312: Is Spider-Man Any Good? Plus, Summer Dragon Fights for All!

August 7, 2026August 12, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0

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‘Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender’ Succeeds in Spite of Its Troubled Release

August 5, 2026August 12, 2026 J. Barnes 0

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‘The Hawk’ Scores a Triple Bogey

August 2, 2026August 5, 2026 Dan Friedman 0

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