Netflix show brings back Blockbuster, but some brands should stay dead

Streaming services are replete with stories of the dead coming back to life. They’re also chock-full with dead or almost dead brands. Shows like Stranger Things...

Reading the room: with NZ’s hate speech laws postponed, where are the limits for comedy?

After a long and at times divisive public consultation process, the government has opted to make a single change to the Human Rights Act and push...

Black Panther is a step in the right direction and a diverse audience is hungry for more inclusive roles and storylines

From Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness to the recent She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, comics and their adaptations or spin-offs are big business. The just-released...

“Tayo Ang Ligaya Ng Isa’t Isa” Christmas ID music video touches netizens’ hearts

Official Christmas shirts now available Joy and praises overflowed on social media after ABS-CBN launched the official music video of “Tayo Ang Ligaya ng Isa’t Isa”...

iWantTFC to livestream Eraserheads’ “Huling El Bimbo” reunion concert everywhere outside the Philippines on 12.22.22

With Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse, Graham Hancock has declared war on archaeologists

Netflix’s enormously popular new show, Ancient Apocalypse, is an all out attack on archaeologists. As an archaeologist committed to public engagement who strongly believes in the...

Why I teach a course connecting Taylor Swift’s songs to the works of Shakespeare, Hitchcock and Plath

Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: “The Taylor Swift Songbook” What prompted the idea...

Pokémon’s Ash wins World Championship after 25 years – here’s why the franchise is still capturing fans

Twenty-five years ago, an animated ten-year-old boy was united with Pikachu, his very first “pocket monster” and set an ambitious goal: to become “the very best,...

Star Wars Andor captures the essence of resistance that is happening in the real world

Andor is the newest Star Wars series on Disney+. It tells the backstory of Cassian Andor, one of the heroes who helped steal the Death Star...

​​Heist Comedy ‘The Lost Lotteries’ Taps Into a National Dream in Thailand