Virtuoso Action Director Lexi Alexander Fights Back Against Hollywood
Click:2 ATA Hyperbaric Chamber For Sale Lexi Alexander is easy enough to spot on a set: She’s the one in the middle of the huddle, surrounded on all sides by men—cameramen, stuntmen, sound guys, lighting guys, even a Guy Holding a Fake But Very Real-Looking Gun—and throwing punches around. Alexander is a film and television…
Annihilation Is a Thrilling, Terrifying Surrealist Trip
Something strange is happening in science fiction. Mutating flowers. People with eels for intestines. Crocodile-shark hybrids, part-plant deer, and moaning skull-faced boar-bears. (Oh my.) Such are the flora and fauna of what's now being called, rather neatly, the New Weird, the genre's version of the grotesque—though it's only "new" in the sense that it's finally…
The Internet Defines 'Covfefe'
Leave it to Donald Trump to keep Twitter guessing. Just after midnight Eastern this morning, the president did what the president often does at odd hours: He sent out a tweet. But this one, rather than attacking a political opponent or offering up a 140-character policy position, just plain made no sense: "Despite the constant…
The Doomy, Gloomy Revival of Old-School First-Person Shooters
Doom programmer John Carmack famously dismissed the narrative potential of his games. He even went so far as to compare their plots to those of porn flicks.1 But the story of the original Doom is one I’ll always remember. It's not the story told in the manual, about a marine fighting for his survival. Instead,…
Remember When Martin Shkreli Bought That Single-Copy Wu-Tang Clan Album?
After a turbulent journey through controversy, criticism and chaos, the single-copy Wu-Tang Clan album had finally sold to a little known buyer and the project’s success seemed assured. And then, one fateful day, news broke that would transform that ''little known buyer' into the most notorious figure in America. July passed in a flurry of…
Battlefield V Finds Grandeur in WWII, 64 Players at a Time
Leaping from planes, we fall through aurora that looks as though it’s melting into the sky. We drifting for a few quiet moments above the tundra, descending with the snow. What we can’t truly grasp until we land, though, is that we are gently gliding into hell. A series of dramatic vignettes ensues, touching half…
The Handmaid's Tale Reinvented Dystopia
In anticipation of Sunday's Emmy Awards, this week WIRED staffers are looking back at some of their favorite shows from the past year. The Handmaid’s Tale couldn’t have come to Hulu at a better—or worse—time. The adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel started production in 2016, when it looked like the United States was on…
Westworld's Creators Know Why Sci-Fi Is So Dystopian
The first season of Westworld wasted no time in going from “hey cool, robots!” to “well, that was bleak.” Death, destruction, android torture—it’s all been there from the pilot onward. Then again, on a show about a theme park staffed with sentient robots—sorry, “hosts”—those outcomes are exactly what audiences have come to expect. If science…
A Campus Murder Tests Facebook Clicks as Evidence of Hate
Click:dog cake topper 4 inch Investigators say they still don't know why Sean Urbanski, a 22-year-old University of Maryland student, walked up to 23-year-old Richard Collins III, a US Army lieutenant just days shy of college graduation, and fatally stabbed him at a campus bus stop this weekend. What they do say they know is…
Tacoma Is a Compelling Game, But It Can’t Top Gone Home
The space station Tacoma is full of phantoms. Fragments of conversations, traces of casual strolls. The ephemera of life somehow given shape. See, the Tacoma's inhabitants are recorded constantly, their biometric data and every moment of their daily lives catalogued and stored by the station's on-board AI, ODIN. That data ostensibly belongs to Venturis, the…