Abraham Lincoln

“Sic semper tyrannis!” With these words John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. after shooting Abraham Lincoln in the head with a 44 caliber derringer on April 14, 1865, altering the course of history and prompting a 12-day manhunt that ended when Sgt. Boston Corbett shot Booth in a Virginia farmhouse (he died hours later). The assassination and the pursuit are now the subjects of Manhunt, a brisk new limited series on Apple TV+. Based on James L. Swanson’s 2007 nonfiction book of the same name,…

Superman has found its latest Perry White. Rebecca Ferguson is teaming up with Chris Pratt for Timur Bekmambetov’s new sci-fi movie. Get a look at Fallout’s retro world in three new posts. Plus, what’s coming on the next episode of Halo. To me, my spoilers!Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023SupermanTHR reports Wendell Pierce (The Wire) has joined the cast of James Gunn’s Superman as the Daily Planet’s editor-in-chief, Perry White. MercyAccording to Deadline, Rebecca Ferguson and Chris Pratt are…

Last month, Gizmodo got an email from WastewaterSCAN, a company that monitors sewage for traces of infectious disease. The outfit had a pitch for us: February 12th is “National Poop Day,” the company said. Would we like to talk to an expert for our Poop Day coverage?Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: 3 Things We Love and HateHere’s the problem: today is February 12th, but it’s not National Poop Day, and I’ll tell you why: it’s because that is not a real thing. Enough is enough. Corporate America would have you believe that every…

Delivery drivers are going to be working hard through extra hot conditions in several states this Prime Day.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)That’s right, it’s back. Like a great orca running headlong for your tiny vessel, Amazon is ready to slam you with proclamations of “deals, deals, deals.” The only thing Amazon seems to be priming today is my migraine, but that doesn’t mean the online retail giant has savings on all explicitly good products.Not all these deals are cut from the same cloth. Just as in previous…

Former users of Parler, the defunct right-wing social media app, got an email from Donald Trump on Tuesday.How To Remove Followers From Twitter“Reports state that I could receive a maximum sentence of 400 YEARS IN PRISON despite being a totally and completely innocent man,” the email reads, referencing the former president’s indictment over allegations that he stole classified documents. “It sounds like something Stalin or Mao did to eliminate their opposition. But instead, it’s happening here in America. Communism has…

Barbarian is coming to streaming.Image: FoxWhat’s available on Hulu June 1? Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, 2011 Attack the Block, 2011 Bewitched, 2005 Borat, 2006 Brigsby Bear, 2017 The Day After Tomorrow, 2004 The Day The Earth Stood Still, 2008 The Goonies, 1985 Idiocracy, 2006 Monster House, 2006 Predators, 2010 Rio, 2011 Role Models, 2008 Slackers, 2002 The Sorcerer and the White Snake, 2011 Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron, 2002 Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil, 2010 Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, 1997 The…

You get the credit as well as the blame for being somewhere between mainstream and arthouse and, sometimes, for being too experimental with your work. What’s your stance on that?I personally thrive on the tension between these two worlds. If I worked either in purely mainstream film or remained limited only to arthouse cinema, I think I would be bored. It’s the friction that I love. I try to capture the multiplicity of experiences, complex characters and dense stories. For that, mainstream filmmaking can sometimes be…

Bing AI now has three different versions of the chatbot, ‘Creative,’ ‘Balanced,’ and ‘Precise.’Photo: Rokas Tenys (Shutterstock)Microsoft’s Bing AI now has three different modes to play around with, though even the most “Creative” version of the company’s Prometheus AI remains a severely limited version of the ChatGPT model.Microsoft employee Mikhail Parakhin, the head of web services at Microsoft (don’t be fooled by his empty avatar and no user bio), first announced Tuesday that the Bing Chat v96 is in production,…

Illustration: maxuser (Shutterstock)It doesn’t take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake. My son is doing a report on U.S. presidents, so I figured I’d help him out by looking up a few biographies. I tried asking for a list of books about Abraham Lincoln and it did a pretty good job:Screen capture by Jonathan May., CC BY-NDNumber 4 isn’t right. Garry Wills famously wrote “Lincoln at Gettysburg,” and Lincoln himself wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, of course, but it’s not a bad start. Then I tried something…

Clone High will return in 2023.Image: MTVIt will have taken two decades, but next year the clones will attack. No, not those clones. The clones of Clone High, the MTV animated show created by Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Bill Lawrence. A few years back, news broke that the show, which follows clones of famous historical figures in a modern high school, would soon be reimagined by original writer Erica Rivinoja. She, along with Lawrence, Lord, and Miller, were set to once again “follow prominent historical figures who have…