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25 Years of Indecision With Jon Stewart

The Nation 29 Oct 2024
John Semley. Before he left his post at The Daily Show, Stewart was America’s voice of reason. Times have changed. Has he?. ....
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How the Cyber-Thriller ‘Red Rooms’ Became a Cult Classic Before It Was Ever Released

Wired 05 Sep 2024
Red Rooms is about things that happen in the dark corners of the internet. Naturally it found an audience of fans who pirated it there ... .
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Americans have demonized drugs for decades. Now we’re doing them every day

The Guardian 29 May 2024
Regular drug use – from caffeine to psychedelics – has become a fundamental part of modern life ... That drug is caffeine ....
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'Furiosa' Crystalizes the Power—and Limits—of Cli-Fi

Wired 23 May 2024
Across four decades and five films, the Mad Max movies offer both a critique and exaltation of the very things that may well have our world motoring toward its own demise ... .
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A Road Trip Through America’s Absurd Political Life

The Nation 16 Jan 2024
John Semley. In Sean Price Williams’s debut film, The Sweet East, he pokes fun at the nation's ideological bubbles. ....
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Review: 'Ferrari' Is Michael Mann’s Cinematic Auto Biography

Wired 22 Dec 2023
For decades, director Michael Mann has pushed boundaries, sought perfection, and built a devoted following—just like Enzo Ferrari himself ... .
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'Aggro Dr1ft' Is Built on AI and Video Games—Shouldn’t the Movie Be More Fun?

Wired 09 Oct 2023
Harmony Korine's Aggro Dr1ft aspires to a new kind of post-movie non-film, but for something featuring a neon-orange Travis Scott on a speedboat full of mercenaries in demon masks, it's just boring ... .
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'Oppenheimer' Review: The Dharma of Death

Wired 24 Jul 2023
Christopher Nolan’s massive new movie is a technical marvel, but it lacks its subject’s more metaphysical dimensions ... .
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'BlackBerry' Is a Movie That Portrays Tech Dreams Honestly—Finally

Wired 12 May 2023
The thing people used before they used the iPhone gets the Social Network treatment in Jay Baruchel and Glen Howerton’s new movie ... .
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We’re All Living Under Gravity’s Rainbow

Wired 16 Feb 2023
Looming apocalypse. Paranoid conspiracies. Rocket-obsessed oligarchs. As Thomas Pynchon’s novel turns 50, its world feels unnervingly present ... .
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Meet the California State Senator Who Wants to Decriminalize Psychedelics

The Nation 01 Nov 2022
John Semley. Can Scott Wiener convince the state that his bill will reduce the “sheer misery” drug use is causing now?. ....
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The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs

Wired 26 Jul 2022
As psychedelic therapies for mental health go mainstream, companies are recruiting chemists to create patentable versions of hallucinogens. Critics say it’s all a bad trip ... .
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