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The reason Boeing’s new 737 Max planes crashed twice, as explained by Vox: an ongoing Boeing scandal that seems to be getting buried. Via Vox: Boeing executives are offering a simple explanation for why the company’s best-selling plane in the world, the 737 Max 8, crashed twice in the past several months, leaving Jakarta, Indonesia, […]

Is everyone watching the Avengers: Endgame film this week? We think so. We also have a few problems with the trailer. What -is- that new uniform? Also, people are already hoping that everyone will die. Via the Guardian: I love the Avengers. I collected the comics during university; I full-on snot-bubble cried at the cinema […]

A commercial for legal weed, for MedMen, directed by Spike Jonze (Her) and voiced by Jesse Williams, looking at the long history of weed. Via Esquire: If the legalization of weed keeps chugging along, commercials for cannabis might one day be as commonplace as the ads we get served for lite beer: a little bit […]

Welcome back from Easter! Here’s some Star Wars to kickstart the post-holiday workday: the trailer from the Rise of Skywalker. Yeah, Star Wars 9. Via CNET: The circle is complete. Lucasfilm revealed Star Wars Episode 9’s title, The Rise of Skywalker, on Friday to kick off Star Wars Celebration Chicago. The Rise of Skywalker trailer […]

How to Be Alone is the first film from writer/director Kate Trefry, who worked on Stranger Things. It’s a horror/psych thriller short. Via Short of the Week: How to be Alone, the directorial debut from Stranger Things staff writer and Blacklist-honored scribe Kate Trefry, is one of those kinds of film—horror in form, but psychological […]

The Dead Don’t Die is a promising-looking zombie survival apocalypse film with a lot of deadpan humour, starring Adam Driver and Bill Murray. Via Ars Technica: The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves in the first trailer for The Dead Don’t Die, director […]

Game of Thrones has been upping its publicity ante, this time with a huge water display in Las Vegas, at the Bellagio casino-resort. Via SFGate: Fire-breathing dragons held court over the world-famous fountains at the Bellagio casino-resort Sunday, as familiar elements from the TV phenomenon “Game of Thrones” were projected on the rising water. The […]

Starting April 1st (No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke), Burger King will be selling the Impossible Whopper, which is plant-based. Via Vox: Plant-based meat just went mainstream. Starting April 1, Burger King is selling a new kind of Whopper that it claims is identical in taste to its traditional beef patty, with just one […]

This Wind in the Willows trailer is actually a Wildlife Trusts environmental PSA, featuring VO work from Sir David Attenborough and Stephen Fry. Via the Drum: Sir David Attenborough, Stephen Fry, Catherine Tate, Alison Steadman and Asim Chaudhry star in The Wildlife Trusts’ Wind in the Willows campaign that aims to stop the rapid depletion […]

Intermarche’s new ad, C’est Magnifique, is a short film where an old widower poignantly remembers the dead through food — and the help of the supermarket. Via The Stable: An ad agency called Romance should create beautiful love stories. The French ad agency called Romance has been doing so since 2017. Creating beautiful love stories, […]