Alex Cranz

It’s been twenty years since Park Chan-wook shocked audiences with Oldboy, the second in his “Vengeance Trilogy.” The film is the most traditional film of the three, but its ending, which is somehow both happy and horrifying, leaves audiences deeply unsettled.

Grindr has introduced a new web app, for XTRA and Unlimited subscribers, to chat on the web instead of the phone. Grindr told Fast Company its hopeful that it will appeal to “users in their mid-30s to 50s who first started connecting with other people on a desktop compared to a phone” and will include a larger UI so you can flit through potential hook ups faster. Its unclear if you’ll still hear the telltale Grindr notification when you receive messages though.

It involves trapping at least one child of a Supreme Court justice in an elevator! But seriously, Buzzfeed News, the serious, news-oriented sibling of the clickbait factory Buzzfeed, was a good blog. It could also be bad blog, and sometimes a weird blog. The site was fueled by wild valuations for online news organizations in the 2010s and killed when the publicly traded company decided to pivot back to viral listicles. Its final story is a novella-length oral history worth a read when you can carve out the time.

Someone recently submitted a question to Slate’s advice column about being a surrogate to a couple named Miles and Keiko and worrying about developing feelings for Miles. That seems like a normal sex advice column question until you realize it’s also the exact plot of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

processed the latest Apple mixed reality headset news, and Andy joined us for a super-sized segment on electric cars after GM canceled the Chevy Bolt and Toyota showed off a pretty Prius.

and while that sounds like a travesty, in this case it was probably a blessing. The film, Ghosted, starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, is not very good. Director Dexter Fletcher told Deadline that he’d originally wanted to go longer before Apple asked to cut the scene because “the data shows that people will just turn it off.” Having art driven and compromised by metrics is nearly always a bad thing, even when it occasionally works in audiences’ favor.

Veterancheats, the Romania-based cheat selling organization, was initially sued by Bungie back in 2021, Veterancheats never responded to the suit, which is what led to this week’s default judgement against it. As TorrentFreak noted in this great piece, its part of a growing class of lawsuits where game makers claim cheats are a violation of the DMCA.

If you, like me, got into the show in the early days of HBO Max because you enjoy historical dramas and also action films, than rejoice, Warrior is back June 29. If you have no idea what I’m talking about than go check it out on HBO Max/Max because it’s fantastic.

In the past thirty years the key change has practically disappeared from songs on the Billboard Hot 100. Our friends over at Switched on Pop spoke with Chris Dalla Riva about why and it turns out writing and recording songs digitally has an awful lot to do with it.