Category: media

“A game makes a player its subject, while the tyranny of the director’s point of view in film and the author’s withholding of detail in fiction both place the viewer as an observer in the world.”

“These shows are fantasies, but they highlight anxieties about societal dissolution that are all too real.”

“We’re sorry for the Christmas Eve outage. Terrible timing! Engineers are working on it now,” the company tweeted Monday.

“With surprising speed, Twitter emerged this year as the engine of a revolutionary change in the way we watch, make and think about TV.”

“The nation’s capital typically ranks low on an Oscar campaign’s priority list. The city is like the electoral equivalent of Montana: very few votes.” Not this year.

“Since Chicago took home the best picture Oscar in 2002, a number of beloved stage musicals such as Phantom of the Opera and Rent have crashed and burned when adapted for the screen.”

“Although the stage show and the movie suggest that the uprising was fought by a handful of students, it was a larger scale affair. One historian estimates as many as 800 dead and wounded among the rebels” of the Uprising of 1832.

Millions (and millions) of people downloaded Game of Thrones episodes this year – because HBO doesn’t make it possible for people without the channel to subscribe to the show.

Online voting starts with some hiccups for Academy members.

“During the trial, Couture argued his gory works, roughly 1,000 images and two short videos that appeared on his website, Inner Depravity, should be considered art. The material in question depicts gruesome murders, torture, sexual abuse, assaults and necrophilia — all with young female victims.”