20 posts tagged ‘thanksgiving’
A Lakota Playwright’s Take on Thanksgiving
The New Yorker,
“The Thanksgiving Play” is a comedy on an awkward subject, and a sendup of liberal good intentions. The staff writer Vinson Cunningham speaks with the playwright Larissa FastHorse.
Napoleon conquers Wish but gets exiled by the Hunger Games prequel
AV Club,
November 2023: Napoleon is master of the domestic box office. Only The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes stands before it. Oceans are now battlefields. Or, you know, close enough. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon has successfully defeated every other movie at the U.S. box office this weekend—save for The Ballad Of… Read more...
The week in film: Ridley Scott's movies ranked, Best Actress contenders revealed
It’s been nearly five decades since Ridley Scott’s first feature film, The Duellists, hit theaters, and now, even well into his 80s, the legendary filmmaker shows no signs of slowing. Napoleon, his latest feature, is as grand and intense as anything else in his long career, and it demonstrates just how adept Scott… Read more...
Let us all be thankful for Songbirds And Snakes at the Thanksgiving box office
As far as holiday “weekends” go, American Thanksgiving has always been a bit of a weird one, box-office-wise. On the one hand, you have lots of people with a decent amount of free time suddenly sitting in their laps; on the other, a ton of cultural messaging that suggests they should be spending said free time in the… Read more...
A record number of people tuned in to watch this year's Macy's Thanksgiving parade
The Thanksgiving holiday may not have been all that rosy for movie theaters, but at least TV scored a win from it—if you consider a whole bunch of people tuning in to watch a giant Luffy from One Piece getting his hat destroyed by cruel nature, and Al Roker interrupting a live TV broadcast to yell Good Burger lines at… Read more...
How to talk about the OpenAI drama at Thanksgiving dinner
TechCrunch,
You’ve just landed in Dayton, Ohio after a long, overnight journey from SFO. While you were waiting in Denver on a layover, you checked your phone to see the news: After almost a week of confusion and uncertainty, Sam Altman has been reinstated as CEO of OpenAI. The good news is that the Slack workspace […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Firefighters demo "safe" turkey fryer — which hilariously bursts into flames (video)
Boing Boing,
Although most people roast a turkey for Thanksgiving, the more adventurous might want to hit the fryer. But don't let it burst into flames, as this poor turkey carcass did! (See video below, posted by Sparks Fire Dept.) To avoid a Thanksgiving mishap — or worse — make sure you know how to use your fryer, says Nevada's Sparks Fire Department, including how much oil to use and setting the correct temperature. — Read the rest
Where on Earth Is Taylor Swift Spending Thanksgiving?
The Cut,
The No.1 question on everyone’s mind mind this Turkey Day.