Ralph Breaks the Internet Wrecked It at the Box Office
It's time once again to turn on The Monitor, WIRED's roundup of the latest in the world of culture, from box-office news to release-date announcements. In today's installment: A new Ralph and a new Rocky dominate the holiday; Disney's Lion King trailer feels the love; and a premiere date for The Walking Dead comes alive.…
The Best Halloween Shows and Movies for Little Kids You Can Stream Right Now
The people most excited about Halloween are little kids. For humans aged between 2.5 and 10 years old, there’s really nothing better. They get to dress up and go out—at night!—and strangers give them candy. There are leaf piles to jump in and fake skeletons to scream at. But it can also be a nightmare,…
How Searching Nails Our Online Anxieties
One of the more charming slices of ‘90s-era web-culture ephemera is Pizza.net, the fake pie-delivery site frequented by Sandra Bullock’s hacker in 1995’s The Net. Though glimpsed only briefly in the movie, Pizza.net was clearly among the chillest faux-online services of the Clinton era. Check out its easy-clicking interface, its friction-free payment plan! The experience…
8 Sci-Fi Writers Imagine the Bold and New Future of Work
“In the early 21st century, perhaps the most important artistic genre is science fiction … [It shapes] how people understand the most important technological, social, and economic developments of our time.” —Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Half of being human, give or take, is the work we do. Pick up a…
The First Captain Marvel Trailer Will Pummel You with '90s Nostalgia
Hello, fellow kids, do you remember the '90s? Flannel? Riot grrrls? Pulp Fiction? Lacing up the ol' Doc Martens and going to the comics shop? Don't worry if you don't; Marvel is here to remind you. Yes, the long-awaited first trailer for the MCU's long-awaited Captain Marvel is finally here, and it's full—nearly too full—with…
American Horror Story: Apocalypse Is Ryan Murphy’s Infinity War—Here's a Primer
Young, passionate men in form-fitting costumes; folks who go by the name "witch"; monsters gleefully planning the end of civilization. No, this isn't the Marvel Cinematic Universe—it's the weird, twisted world of American Horror Story. It may not be as intricately plotted and intertwined as the MCU, but the world of Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology…
Cantina Talk: Here's a Buttload of Information About the New Star Wars Streaming Show
For those keeping a close eye on everything coming out of the galaxy far, far away, it's been a busy few weeks. Star Wars Resistance has launched, and is offering some background information on the political landscape of the galaxy. Meanwhile, the Marvel comic series filled in a missing piece of lore from the original…
Heaven Will Be Mine: In Space, No One Can Hear You Reach Out
It's 1981, in a version of reality where the Cold War was waged not human to human, but human to extraterrestrial enemy from beyond the stars. To fight, we developed robot bodies to wear in space; these Ship-Selves are advanced and almost unkillable, weapons and homes and clothes and identities all rolled into one. And,…
The 15 New Fall Shows We're Most Excited About
Not all that long ago, September brought with it a year's worth of small-screen novelty. Broadcast networks would refresh their lineups, the vast majority of which would run out their various shows' 22-episode orders, and then the reruns would begin. Other than a few midseason replacements come January, that was it; that's how TV worked.…
Fortnite's Marshmello Concert Is the Future of the Metaverse
By the standards of outdoor EDM performances, Marshmello's DJ set on Saturday came up a little short. Ten minutes isn't usually enough time for festival-goers to congregate in front of a stage, let alone build up to a good crescendo—but the Pleasant Park crowd had been waiting for the gig for days, and so everyone…