The new movie from Matt Damon is directed by Alexander Payne, who’s previously given the world Sideways—but his latest looks like it’s quite different to that. It delves into sci-fi as the plot is set in the near future where a new medical treatment allows people to be shrunk and miniaturized. Due to its affordability many people have undertaken it and whole tiny communities have formed. The idea is that it reduces people’s carbon footprint but many people do it because money is worth more, so you become richer.
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The Rubberbandits have taken on a tough subject for their latest single and music video, which is called ‘Sonny’. Written and sung by Blindboy Boatclub and Mr Chrome, they tackle the complex and emotional issue of suicide, looking past any ideas that it’s unique to one particular type of person or done for one reason.
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Game of Thrones may have disappeared from our screens for quite some time, with the rumor being that it won’t be back until…2019? Which, frankly, sucks. But until then we’ll have to make do with rewatching the current seven seasons and watching fan made internet videos like this.
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The second season of Stranger Thing begins streaming on 27 October 2017, which isn’t too far off considering it’s been teased since around February this year. To celebrate it’s upcoming premiere Netflix have reimagined the first season’s events as though they were part of an 1980s style supernatural horror RPG video game.
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Japanese director Takashi Miike’s latest film is an adaptation of the manga by Hiroaki Samura. It’s his 100th movie and it follows samurai Manji in feudal Japan as he lives his life as a criminal. The samurai has killed many people but has been cursed with immortality. The only way out of the curse is to kill more evil men, which leads to some insane, Tarantino-style violence and crazy action sequences.
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Anyone who is a Rick and Morty fan will no doubt be watching the new season, which before it had even come out had given us an instance classic just from the trailer. And that was Pickle Rick, the pickle version of boozy scientist Rick Sanchez, who turned himself into a pickle to avoid family therapy. The episode is action packed though, and so YouTube Sneaky Zebra has created a toy trailer for Pickle Rick, as though he was a 90’s action figure.
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There’s something about seeing ridiculously expensive Hollywod blockbusters redone on a extremely low budget that is just very satisfying. And it’s a genre that, with the ease of publishing videos online, isn’t going away any time soon. So behold this fun version of the Captain America: Civil War from YouTube channel Budget Videos.
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Zev is a commercial real estate broker who lives in Toronto, Canada and in this video he introduces us to his 97 year-old grandfather and introduces his 97 year-old grandfather to the future of automobiles—or one possibly future anyway. Because he takes him for a spin in a Tesla. And riding in an all-electric car is quite an experience for a man who was born when the car industry was just getting big.
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There’s some meta YouTubing going on here, as YouTuber JoshPalerLin goes to the tattoo parlour to get himself four brand new tats. Tats that are the faces of four other YouTubers, namely Logan Paul, Jake Paul, RiceGum, and PewDiePie. They’re not subtle either, with two on his chest and then two more on his back. He’ll no doubt regret this decision later on in life.
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Brady Haran’s Numberphile YouTube series, with the help of Carl Pomerance from the Department of Mathematics at Dartmouth College, takes a look at Aaron Numbers or what’s known as Ruth–Aaron pairs. Which is when two consecutive numbers’, like 714 and 715, prime numbers add up to equal numbers.
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This seven-minute animated short, handpainted with watercolors, is titled El Empleo (“The Employmentâ€) and captures contemporary notions of productivity through the life of one man on his way to work. Directed by Santiago “Bou” Grasso a Santiago, Argentina, film director the piece turns the human form into lamp posts and tables and chairs.
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