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What we’re watching: The rise and fall of Theranos is getting a lot of renewed interest recently, what with a HBO documentary and a podcast out. Via Vox: Modern grifters and con artists manifest a certain vampiric quality. The hipster grifter, fraudulent socialite Anna Delvey, the fake Saudi prince, Fyre Festival (and maybe, if you […]

Dora the Explorer has a live action film, to absolutely nobody’s surprise. What we didn’t anticipate is that it looks like YA Tomb Raider. Via Polygon: The live-action Dora the Explorer is not the Dora the Explorer you knew. A first trailer for the late-summer movie explains it all. The hit Nick Jr. show premiered […]

Colonel Sanders is the Godfather of Chickentown in this vaguely threatening, weirdly hilarious KFC (UK) ad which points out knockoffs. Via the Drum: KFC has launched a campaign that reminds the public that there is only one place to get the Colonel’s Original Recipe. Created by Mother, the spot sees the original chicken Don, Colonel […]

Fox is celebrating its “fresh start” with this ad campaign, after that mega-merger Disney-Fox $71.3 billion dollar deal finalised. Via Deadline: “The company that we knew and loved is changing,” says a prophetic Terrence Howard tonight in a clip from Empire used in sizzle spot celebrating the birth of a new era at what is […]

Walmart’s epic “Famous Cars” commercial features a ton of iconic movie cars from the Batmobile to the Delorean from Back to the Future. Can you ID them all? Via Syfy: Set to the ’80s-era jam of Gary Numan’s “Cars,” the one-minute ad shows some of genre’s most famous vehicles (including the ones we just mentioned), […]

The Encounter by Pepsi is an ad parodying/paying homage to the science fiction film The Arrival. It played during the Golden Globes. Via Variety: William H. Macy has spent hours playing characters in such TV and film works as “Shameless,” “Fargo,” “The Cooler” and “State and Main.” He appears for just seconds as a surprisingly […]

ICYMI: A very special performance of “I am Australian” partly translated into the Mabu Yawuru ngan-ga language, sung by schoolkids. Via the ABC: This music clip features iconic Aussie anthem “I am Australian” which was originally composed by Bruce Woodley AO and Dobe Newton and originally performed by The Seekers. It has been specially recorded […]

Apple pushes its Privacy and Security functions in its latest ad, pushing its IOS with a “Privacy. That’s iPhone” campaign. Via the Verge: “If privacy matters in your life, it should matter to the phone your life is on,” says the commercial, as it flips through a wide range of privacy-related scenarios, including “keep out” […]

Niantic is following up its viral smash hit game Pokemon Go with a Harry Potter game this year. Expecto crazy crowds of people again. Via Kotaku: Pokémon Go developer Niantic and WB Games just gave us our first in-depth look at the gameplay for their next augmented reality game, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, slated for […]

ICYMI: Leaving Neverland is a four hour documentary by HBO (available on Tenplay if you’re in Australia) about 2 of Michael Jackson’s accusers. Via Vox: Nobody wants Leaving Neverland to exist. That much is clear. In HBO’s two-part, four-hour documentary, which airs on March 3 and 4, Wade Robson and James Safechuck discuss in painful […]