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Courtesy There is a podcast for everything these days. No, literally. If you hop on any major platform—Apple, Spotify, Stitcher—you can get lost in the library of podcasts covering everything from sex to true crime. Sometimes sex in true crime. Point being, its niche as hell and you can get as deep or as superficial as you want. For 2021, we find ourselves in the position of recommending the best of whats out there. The Esquire editors came together and made a roundup of our favorites—s...

The True Story Behind The Bride Of Frankenstein United Archives/Getty Images In 1923, Universal Studios became Hollywoods reigning house of horror with  The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring makeup effects legend Lon Chaney. The studio followed the success of Chaneys take on Victor Hugos novel with another macabre masterpiece starring the man of a thousand faces. The Phantom of the Opera, released in 1925, had audiences fainting in the aisles thanks to Chaneys performance as Er...

Hailed in the West as the most important book about China since ‘The Travels of Marco Polo’.

Theatrical release poster for The Birth of a Nation, distributed by Epoch Film Co. (Wikimedia Commons)  As we approach the centenary of the Tulsa Race Massacre and experience a growing recognition of its horrors, it is worth remembering a question raised by Daniel Lord, S.J. (1888-1955), one of the most influential Catholic priests in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s. Did the rise of the movie industry fuel the flames of racial hatred in the United States? Lord grew up in Chicag...

Weekly Worker Paul Demarty insists that unrestricted free speech is central to the communist project This article is a version of an opening I delivered at the Communist Party members’ aggregate on January 23, motivating a new section of the CPGB’s Draft programme on freedom of speech and related liberties. The rather short text - which, as amended, is reproduced below - could, in principle, be a lot shorter. The first demand is for “unrestricted freedom of speech” - a formulation iden...

WandaVision Opened With a Stylishly Old-Fashioned Web of Lies and Intrigue Share Wanda contemplating a mess. (Screenshot: Disney+/Pixar) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. The first of WandaVision’s many secrets is one that the new Disney+ series actually reveals to you in the pr...

The first of WandaVision’s many secrets is one that the new Disney+ series actually reveals to you in the premiere episode’s first moments. You watch as Wanda Maximoff (aka Scarlet Witch) and her longtime beau, Vision, beeline straight from the altar to their new suburban home in the city of Westview. The Visions’ neighbors might not know it, but he’s a synthezoid, and she’s...something else. Advertisement Of course,   you know the pair isn’t really just an average couple, and t...

Nicolas Cage in ‘History of Swear Words’   This romp through the history of swearing is mainly limited to the United States and could have done with a bit more bite and depth The most difficult thing about writing this review was how to refer to the six unprintable words that actor Nicolas Cage dissects through the course of this documentary series. The series showed the way with “minced oaths,” which is using a proxy for the curse word. So the series looks at fudge, shoot, the nickna...

As anyone paying attention is likely to know, the LGBTQ+ community has been integral to the performing arts for all of history, even the members of the entertainment industry were at times reluctant to admit it. Back in the days of the Hays Code from the 1930s to the 60s, movies that depicted same-sex love interests were censored by studios. Even today, movies that feature gay sex or LGBTQ+ characters are typically rated more strictly than movies with straight characters. Given the stigma aroun...

The Untold Truth About Madams In The Wild West Move over, Miss Kitty. The endearing harlot of the 1950s- and 60s-era television show Gunsmoke was a clean enough representation of madams in the old Wild West. Rarely, however, does Hollywood portray these women in a truthful light. Just take a look at Hornet, which lists ten films illustrating how the movie industry fails to portray the gritty business of sex work as it really was, and is. Even as film studios began employing stars like Greta G...