Birds aren't the only males that sport flashy plumage. Leaving the house with an unkept pile of dead cells on your is a definite no — as illustrated by John Turturro and Bobby Cannavale Hair, a short film directed by Turturro as part of a campaign for rag & bone. This hilarious, unscripted short gives a lighter take on the sometimes too-serious world of fashion and our own obsession with how we look.
During World War II, thousands of Belgian, British, and French troops were surrounded by the German army in the Battle of France. For Christopher Nolan's Interstellar follow-up, he takes you back to 1940 to relive what's been called "a colossal military disaster" — the Dunkirk evacuation. The film will star Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Tom Hardy, and former One Direction member Harry Styles. Dunkirk is slated for release July 21, 2017.
25 years ago, one of the most prolific directorial careers in Hollywood history launched with a film called Reservoir Dogs. In the intervening years, a library's worth of criticism and thousands of hours of video essays have been produced about Quentin Tarantino's work — not to mention the huge influence his films have had on others. Nerdwriter looks back at Tarantino's first film, how it's aged, and how it compares to the director's later efforts.
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After trading in Brendan Fraser for Tom Cruise, Universal is leading off their upcoming Monster series with a reboot of The Mummy. Cruise's Nick Morton becomes the mortal plaything for a 2,000-year-old Egyptian princess who's wreaking havoc on the world after she awakens from her tomb. The trailer gives a glimpse into the possible second film in the series with a shot of Russell Crowe as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Also starring Sofia Boutella and Annabelle Wallis, the film is slated for release June 9, 2018.
Synthesized in a lab, accidentally ingested, made illegal, and expanding the minds of people everywhere: LSD has had quite trip. Beyond mind control experiments and conspiracy theories, LSD is making a comeback in research for things like depression and anxiety. AsapScience looks at how new uses are being discovered and what the chemical does to your brain when you trip.
The most elegant solution is often the simplest. Making robots walk requires lots of hardware — in the form of motors, servos, gyroscopes, and the structure of the robot itself — and software to process those data points and translate them into movement. The Planar Elliptical Runner is a prototype bipedal robot that uses mechanical design to ditch much of the hardware and all of the software required to make it move, using only a motor and remote control.
Professional drivers — people that drive the UPS trucks, big rigs, courier services and many others — are one of the biggest employee groups in the US. With the self-driving car revolution already under way, they stand to be hit hardest in the first salvo of automation. WIRED looks at the current state of the technology, how it will affect drivers and whether autonomous vehicles are really ready for the road.
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Everything must die. Death isn't limited to just the living things here on Earth — it will come to the stars and even the universe itself. White dwarfs are star corpses, what remains of a star's core after it sheds its outer layers. Far in the future, finding a suitable white dwarf to inhabit will be necessary for life as we know it.
Chris Pratt has come a long way — and not just from Parks & Recreation to Guardians of the Galaxy. Before Andy Dwyer became Star-Lord, he was teen heartthrob Harold Abbot in The WB series Everwood. Breakout roles in films like Moneyball and Zero Dark Thirty followed, leading to the massive successes of Jurassic World and Guardians, making Pratt a household name.