Discover a new way to find and share stories you'll love… Learn about Reading Desk

Blog Profile / The Underwire


URL :http://blog.wired.com/underwire/
Filed Under:Entertainment
Posts on Regator:6509
Posts / Week:24.3
Archived Since:April 5, 2008

Blog Post Archive

Ben Wheatley Wants to Make You Feel Responsible for Murder in Sightseers

British filmmaker Ben Wheatley's latest film Sightseers is a darkly funny road-trip horror-comedy -- just the kind you'd expect from someone who got his start online.

How Iron Man 3 Flipped the Script on Female Characters

Want to see one of the most progressive portrayals of women in a blockbuster movie this year? Then go see Iron Man 3. As incongruous as it sounds, it’s true: director Shane Black and his co-writer, Drew Pearce, managed to...

20 Years of Wired Covers in One 30-Second Video

In the last 20 years Wired has put a plethora of interesting people, topics, and things on its cover -- and done it all with style. Watch all of them go by in less than 30 seconds in this video...

An Exclusive Peek at Adventure Time‘s First Original Graphic Novel

Not content with award-nominated comics, Boom! Studios is publishing Adventure Time's first original graphic novel this month. Here's an exclusive look.

Behold the First Trailer For Pub Crawl Apocalypse Flick The World’s End

The first trailer for Edgar Wright's latest flick with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost is here -- and it looks like the best/worst bar brawl of all time.

Wired Video Series | Bloodline: Rob Zombie’s Witchy Woman

In the latest episode of Bloodline horror experts Jordan Crucchiola and Jay Dayrit conjure up their review of Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem.

Watch an 8-Minute Recap of Venture Brothers Before the Season 5 Premiere

Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! Not a holiday special! Venture Brothers season five is premiering at select locations around the country on May 28 and 29, nearly a week before the season’s network premiere on June 2.

Cyber Cards

/ CyberCards.cpp / #include "testApp.h" #include "shaders.h" //-------------------------------------------------------------- void testApp::setup(){ ofBackground(0, 0, 0); ofSetVerticalSync(true); ofSetFrameRate(60); glHint(GL_TEXTURE_COMPRESSION_HINT,...Show More Summary

An Ice Climber Fact-Checks the Epic Ascent of the Wall in Game of Thrones

On last Sunday’s episode of Game of Thrones, we saw Jon Snow and the Wildlings scale the Wall, a 700-foot vertical ice barrier that separates the continent of Westeros from the frozen lands to the north. So how realistic was...

Alt Text: Regional YouTube Trends, Apocryphal Version

YouTube just released its Trends Map. Here are a few (not real) regional results it might not be turning up.

Pick Some Pixels, Any Pixels: Open Source Illusionist Hacks Magic Into the Future

Marco Tempest sees the marriage of science and magic as a way to envision where technology might take us.

BitTorrent Announces Bundle, A ‘Gated’ Torrent Aimed at Legitimizing File-Sharing

BitTorrent has announced Bundles, a new format that it hopes will continue to demonstrate to the entertainment industry that file-sharing isn't the enemy.

It’s Robots Versus Cheerleaders in Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong

At its heart, the graphic novel Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, which hits stores today, is a classic high school-hijinks caper. But rather than the typical trope of jocks facing off against geeks, it offers a different sort of high....

First Ender’s Game Trailer Has Kids, Alien War, Ben Kingsley

The first trailer for director Gavin Hood's adaptation of Ender's Game is here, complete with young alien fighters and Ben Kingsley.

Ray Harryhausen, Stop-Motion Pioneer Whose Work Inspired Star Wars, Dead at 92

Legendary visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen passed away today in London at the age of 92.

The Star Trek Fan Art That IBM Scientists Created Out of Atoms

IBM scientists pay tribute to Star Trek in a way that few others could: Making fan art for the show using a microscope that lets them to draw with atoms.

‘Everybody Loves an Astronaut’: Seeing Mad Men Through Its Ads

Every week, Wired takes a look at the latest episode of Mad Men through the lens of the latest media campaign of the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency. It’s a tale of two Chevys. The first is driven by Ted Chaough, Don...

Watch Jessica Chastain Kiss Mama in This Exclusive Clip

The freakiest thing about horror flick Mama is Mama herself. Find out how the entity was made in this exclusive clip.

Game of Thrones Recap: There Are No Happy Endings

The third season of Game of Thrones is finally here, and we’re back to chronicle the TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s world of Westeros -- and how it differs from the books -- in a series of letters...

Jonathan Coulton Kickstarts ‘The Princess Who Saved Herself’ Into an Illustrated Book

Jonathan Coulton and Greg Pak announced a new stretch goal for their massively successful Kickstarter: an illustrated book based on Coulton's song "The Princess Who Saved Herself."

Copyright © 2011 Regator, LLC