Today is David Letterman’s last show. Like a lot of people my age, Dave was one of my original stick-it-to-the-man inspirations. This week Jason Snell produced a very special episode of The Incomparable, Monkey Cam, with interviews from some very smart people and an excellent narrative…

I am really looking forward to watching Benedict Cumberbatch play Alan Turing. Here is the first trailer.

For the last six months, I’ve been slowly working through the five seasons of the BBC’s Merlin on Netflix. It is campy and fun and, for most episodes, easy to watch while I’m doing some other low-bandwidth tasks. However, I’ve just got two episodes left and…

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling announced she is writing a screenplay for a new Harry Potter Universe movie that takes place 70 years before Harry. It will instead focus on Newt Scamander as he collects material for his Fantastic Beasts  book. I sure got sucked into…