Jodie Foster on Rejecting Studio Movies, Revisiting ‘Silence of the Lambs’ and Whether She Came Out During Her Golden Globes Speech: ‘They Were Confused’

Jodie Foster still thinks about Clarice Starling. After winning her second Oscar for playing the dogged FBI agent who must ...
The Atlantic

This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. The president of the United States just barged into America’s ...
The New York Times

Bondi Beach Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like

There is a measure of comfort to be taken in the fact that Sunday’s terrorist attack at a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which left at least 15 people dead and many more injured, also ...
People

Taylor Swift Album Criticism — Including Nazi Claims — Was 'Narrative Manipulation' by Bot-Like Accounts, Research Says

Research also showed a “significant user overlap” in accounts manipulating Swift’s narrative, and those involved in a separate but similar campaign against Blake Lively John Shearer/Getty The ...
PC Gamer

Looks like the Run dialog box is getting a sleek new look on Windows 11

Maybe I just fit a very particular demographic, but nothing signals Windows 10's true end-of-life (EOL) more than the fact that it looks like Windows 11 will soon ditch the traditional look of the Run ...
siliconera

Yakuza Lead Goro Majima Tops Like a Dragon Character Popularity Poll

The official social media account for RGG shared some images showing some of the most popular Like a Dragon folks in the Yakuza Character Popularity Poll, with Goro Majima, Kazuma Kiryu, and Taiga ...
Variety

Megan Moroney, Variety Hitmakers Storyteller of the Year, on Why She Loves a Good Narrative: ‘I Think the Most Specific Songs Are the Most Relatable’

Moroney is coming off a sophomore album, “Am I Okay?,” and a tour that felt like a genre-specific equivalent to a Taylor Swift show, with audiences of mostly young women shouting Moroney’s breakup ...
TheWrap

More Film and TV Characters With Cancer, Dementia Could Inspire Real-World Prevention, Study Finds | Video

Film and TV characters with more realistic depictions of health issues like cancer, dementia, obesity, and more could be the inspiration for real-world prevention. In conversation with TheWrap CEO ...
GamesRadar+

Bioshock creator Ken Levine's new narrative FPS Judas was shaped by a "stream of consciousness" where an anti-social character prefers vending machines to people: "Conversation ...

Ken Levine, one of the masterminds behind BioShock, has a new FPS in the works, the mysterious Judas for Ghost Story Games. As details drip out about the project, he's provided us with an insight into ...
Psychology Today

A Good Mother Can Rewrite the Narrative and Drop the Guilt

In the last installment of this series on guilt, I discussed the false and conditioned belief that we are guilty if someone else is uncomfortable or disappointed. I suggested a reframe, namely, to see ...