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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLast month, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director of Get Out, Jordan Peele, shared a clip of the moment that he told Brandon Perea he’d booked his first major film role – in Peele’s subversive UFO horror, Nope. It’s the kind of video you can’t help but grin madly at. Peele tells the actor at a call-back audition that he liked the reading the actor had previously given, but he’d…

North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn’s brief stint in the House has been rife with scandal. There’s the time he seemingly bragged about invites to alleged cocaine-fueled orgies. That’s on top of sexual misconduct allegations surfacing, which he’s denied. There’s also a leaked nude video as well asmultiple ethics committee investigations. Now, the politician is set to finally face some material consequences for his actions. The House Ethics Committee has determined Cawthorn violated multiple congressional rules…

OJ (Daniel Kaluuya), Angel (Brandon Perea), and Emerald (Keke Palmer) keep an eye on the sky.Image: Courtesy of Universal StudiosJordan Peele’s Nope is full of unexpected elements—including an alien that doesn’t look or act the way anyone thinks it will, and human characters who surprise us almost as much. One of the film’s biggest breakouts is Brandon Perea (The OA), who plays UFO enthusiast Angel Torres; ahead of Nope’s arrival on Blu-ray next week, io9 got a chance to ask him about his experience. Angel enters the…

Building Back Together, a pro-Biden political advocacy group, launched a six-figure digital ad campaign on Wednesday to boost the administration’s student loan relief program in key battleground states across the country. And to make sure it landed with young voters, they enlisted the help of President Joe Biden’s online alter ego: Dark Brandon.The ad, titled “Pocket,” takes cues from the fancam style of online video, featuring a series of viral memes and GIFs set to a bass-heavy remix of television news segments. The ad…

To describe Brandon Sanderson as prolific would be an understatement. In addition to being the author of the acclaimed Mistborn and Stormlight Archive series', as well as finishing Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, he teaches, tours, and makes YouTube videos. And, somehow, in between all that he works with video games properties, most notably the Infinity Blade franchise with Epic and Chair.More recently however, Sanderson has teamed up with Unknown Worlds, the studio behind the Natural Selection…

Photo: Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency (Getty Images)President Joe Biden delivered an important speech in Philadelphia on Thursday night about the threat that Donald Trump and his followers pose to the future of American democracy. It was fiery and blunt by Biden standards. And there’s probably no better proof that Biden’s speech was desperately needed than the reaction it received online. Trump’s army of whiners and assholes absolutely lost their shit.Trump supporters were simply aghast that a president of the United States…

Image: Titan ComicsKamen Rider has existed in many forms in its long history, from TV and film to, of course, creator Shotaro Ishinomori’s own classic manga. But how do you bring a series that has such a peculiar history in the west to contemporary Western comics? As part of our ongoing look at Titan Comics’ new Kamen Rider Zero-One series this week, io9 recently spoke to writer Brandon Easton and artist Hendry Prasetya over email about their history with tokusatsu, and the particular challenges of adapting a legendary…

In an interview with Remezcla published concurrently with the premiere of "Nope," Brandon Perea revealed that he hopes the next step in his acting career is a Marvel Cinematic Universe role. After Remezcla shared this interview on Twitter, Perea quote tweeted it on his own account and added that he would like to portray Sam Alexander, known in Marvel comics as the superhero Nova. As chronicled on the Marvel website, Sam is the second person to don the Nova mantle, after another human named Richard Rider.…

Brandon Sanderson, an epic fantasy and science fiction writer, delivered an excellent keynote called The Common Lie Writers Tell You. This session was a map of achieving difficult things disguised as writing advice. We would like to believe that skill, talent, or determination are the hallmarks of a breakthrough. We need to understand survivorship bias, our tendency to learn only from successful individual survivors. In Sanderson’s words: Some things are simply impossible, and even for the things that are possible, luck…

Were a trend expert to examine the fortnight’s big gig listings, they might be forgiven for assuming that we’re in the midst of a 2002 revival. My Chemical Romance are back and playing vast outdoor gigs, David Gray is doing White Ladder in full, and the Killers are warming up for a stadium run with this relatively intimate Sheffield show. Music has changed so much since we first met, but when you’ve got a pocketful of hits and a roomful of nostalgic millennials clamouring to hear them, what’s a few years between…