Author: Press Room
The year is 2025, and something remarkable is taking place with music. Vinyl’s big recovery is ongoing, but an equally old-school form of audio is also catching up. Cassette tapes are back—big time—but it’s not just boomers and millennials powering this resurgence. There is a whole movement behind this retro tech, and more companies and artists than ever are responding in kind. We’ve had a heap of top artists release new albums on cassette in 2025, with some beautiful dedicated portable cassette players, too. So, what gives? Why is the tech we left behind in the 90s back with such…
Nintendo has unveiled the first images from The Legend of Zelda movie. There’s a lot riding on this film. Fans have loved The Legend of Zelda games for decades and everyone wants the movie to be as good as it can be, which isn’t guaranteed given how many bad video game movies have been released over the years. These first-look images, at least, are encouraging. English actors Benjamin Evan Ainsworth and Bo Bragason really do look like Link and Zelda, and the rolling New Zealand wilds behind perfectly evoke the fantasy land of Hyrule. We have a while to wait…
Forrest Gump is one of those films that I can rewatch at just about any time and still get a big emotional punch to the gut. I’m not convinced it’s the best collaboration between director Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks (that particular honor belongs to Cast Away), but there’s a reason Forrest Gump is considered a classic. A big part of that, of course, is Hanks’ performance in the title role. He brings a level of affable empathy to the character that honestly could have been far more problematic in the hands of someone else. And for Zemeckis, it represents…
I’m always on the hunt for movies I haven’t seen. Some people love to curl up in their comfort movies and watch the same ones over and over again. Not me. I want to be constantly checking new movies off my list whenever I get the time to sit down and watch one. Because of this, I’ve had to go to extra lengths to search out movies I haven’t seen before. Sure, it’s easy to just post up and watch movies on cable or enjoy popular movies on Netflix or HBO Max. But I want to stream movies that I…
Sometimes, you just want your mind to be taken to a place it has never been before. The most obvious genre to do this is science fiction. The premises are generally rooted in scientific fact, helping them seem more plausible. But the fiction side is where audiences and directors can have some fun. You can be whisked off to a different planet or plunged below the sea and all of it will fall under the sci-fi genre. Sci-fi movies and shows have a certain feel to them; like something is off, but you can’t quite put your finger on it.…
Ever since HBO adapted George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books as Game of Thrones, studios have been in a rush to bring iconic fantasy and sci-fi book series to the small screen. There have been hits and misses. Shows like The Expanse and Outlander earned legions of fans, but people soured on The Witcher the longer it went on, and Amazon foolishly canceled The Wheel of Time just as it was picking up steam. The adaptation train is losing a bit of steam these days, but when it picks back up, we want studios to be…
Are you on the case looking for a good new detective show to watch? Are you following the breadcrumbs and examining the evidence? Are you unbothered that I’m talking like a police procedural? Then you’re probably a detective diehard and have seen your fair share of crime series. You may need to dig a little deeper if you’re going to find something fresh. This is what this article is all about: uncovering those under-seen detective series that deserve more recognition. Some of these shows are ongoing, and some have long since wrapped up. All are worth a look. Dark Winds…
Pluribus has been a fascinating experiment thus far, with creator Vince Gilligan bringing his own brand of post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction to the television landscape. As I suspected when it was first announced, it’s unlike almost anything else currently airing. There are no zombies, nuclear explosions, or a Mad Max-like wasteland involved here. No, instead, the world is brought to its “end” by an alien infection that turns almost every single human on Earth into a happy, content hivemind. But the audience focus is on Carol (Rhea Seehorn), one of only 13 people in the whole world immune to this…
A lot of people can’t do without Spotify, and it’s understandable. Its cross-device control, vast library, and new-music discovery make it hard to beat. Well, just last week, on a whim, I decided to open MusikCube in the terminal, and I never would’ve guessed that a command-line music player could feel like a revelation. It greeted me with a bare-bones, utilitarian interface, as I expected. But within minutes, it drew me in, and I found calm, quiet, and just pure music. Of course, MusikCube only plays music you own—it isn’t a streaming service. But that constraint gave me a more…
The last Star Wars movie to play in theaters was The Rise of Skywalker, six years ago. That may not seem like a long time in the long arc of the series—well over a decade passed between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace, after all—but ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, they’ve wanted to flood the zone. We got five Star Wars movies between 2015 and 2019, plus a lot of TV shows after that. So, the absence of another proper Star Wars movie has been notable. Now finally, Disney is readying a couple of new movies…