After Breath of the Wild, playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a lesson in letting go of old habits in order to reach new heights.
As if it wasn’t already painfully obvious how ready studios are to further devalue the labor workers do to make their films and TV shows possible, Max’s new interface has done away with listing writing and directing credits in favor of a catch-all “Creators” label.
Because hey, what’s the difference between a writer, a non-writing producer, and a director? They’re all just little content machines, right?
Though Kenneth Johnson’s V was a miniseries about reptilian aliens surreptitiously invading Earth, it was also a brilliant — and fairly transparent — anti-fascism parable about the power of collective resistance.
But in a fascinating new Vanity Fair piece, Johnson says over the years he’s been trying to revive V as a modern film, he’s also been fending off QAnon-minded fans dead set on “believing that there really was a lizard race and that I had been trying to warn everybody.”
The service formerly known as HBO Max is finally going through with its silly, disruptive rebrand this week, and to mark the occasion, Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly gearing up for yet another round of layoffs expected to impact the company’s cable TV business.
