Category: Movies & TV

Movies & TV • November 1, 2026

What If We Ranked the Biggest Movies in History by Gold Instead of Dollars?

In 1939, audiences flocked to see Gone with the Wind, a nearly four-hour Hollywood epic that would become one of the most successful films ever released. Eighty years later, Avengers: Endgame collected almost $2.8 billion worldwide. By the usual box-office standards, modern blockbusters appear to operate on an entirely different financial scale. But what if […]

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Movies & TV • September 4, 2026

Elon Musk Is the Closest Thing We Have to Eldon Tyrell

In Blade Runner, Eldon Tyrell is not simply a billionaire. He is the architect of a civilization. His corporation manufactures the artificial workers that keep an entire economic system running. His monumental pyramid rises above Los Angeles like the headquarters of a new form of sovereignty. Tyrell is not elected. He is not accountable to […]

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Movies & TV • August 31, 2026

Disney+ Is Going Free: Disney’s New Streaming Offer

Disney built Disney+ as a subscription service. Now it is seriously considering giving part of it away for free. CEO Josh D’Amaro confirmed during Disney’s August 5 earnings call that the company is exploring a free streaming product, designed partly to reach viewers who are increasingly reluctant to add another monthly subscription. A Disney executive […]

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Movies & TV • July 10, 2026

Webtoons Now Power One in Four K-Dramas in South Korea

Look closely at your current K-drama obsession. There is a serious chance it started life as a webtoon. In 2026, South Korea’s drama machine is leaning harder than ever on digital comics and web novels. According to Korean entertainment coverage, roughly one in four K-drama projects this year is based on a webtoon or web […]

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Movies & TV • June 10, 2026

RoboCop: Privatizing the Failure of the Public Sector

RoboCop is usually read as a brutal Reagan-era satire about corporate greed, privatized policing, media rot, and the conversion of human life into marketable hardware. That reading is correct. But it is not the only one. Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi classic also works as a nasty little thought experiment: what happens when the public sector […]

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Movies & TV • May 10, 2026

Blade Runner Was Right About Everything

Ridley Scott’s noir masterpiece wasn’t just a great sci-fi film. It was a 40-year prophecy about AI, surveillance, megacorporations, and what it means to be human. Table of contents Los Angeles, 2019. Sound familiar? Prophecy #1: AI that passes the Turing test Prophecy #2: The Tyrell Corporation predicted Big Tech perfectly Prophecy #3: Surveillance, identity, […]

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