Yesterday, we were all given front-row seats to the diplomatic strategy of Donald J. Trump, which, of course, took the form of a poorly edited faux-movie trailer meant to flatter and impress a known dictator. As the trailer made the rounds online, people began to reach out to “Destiny Pictures,” the production company…
A few days before President Trump’s historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, The New York Times ran an article that claimed Trump, in his own way, “has been preparing for this encounter his entire adult life.” Based on what we know about Trump’s daily routine, we can only assume The New York Times means…
With North Korea being back in the news so much recently, it seems as good a time as any to consult Hollywood’s foremost expert on all things related to Kim Jong-un, Seth Rogen. Back in 2014, Rogen and his longtime friend James Franco made a little movie called The Interview, which centered around two bumbling…
Earlier today, North Korea’s foreign minister Ri Yong Ho said that Donald Trump’s many recent threats against his country—including a comment that North Korea “won’t be around much longer” if it maintains its current path—were effectively a “declaration of war” and that the United Nations should remember that “it was…
The United Nations’ General Assembly usually provides a time and place for world leaders to work on resolving some pressing global issue. And now, thanks to Donald Trump’s increasingly unhinged actions, the U.S. is the embarrassed parent at this student-teacher conference, what with the president having sided with…
It’s a new day and a new Trump Twitter tirade against everyone and everything who offends him, including a fellow unhinged world leader, a social media platform, and a former political rival. Once again, the president has gotten up bright and early to retweet slideshows that prove he knows more than one black person,…
Earlier this week, presumably after his coddlers took too long to bring him one of his daily briefings of flattering bullshit, Donald Trump did his best impression of a president in an action movie and told North Korea that it would be met with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it dared to threaten the…
Donald Trump is a child. A 71-year-old child who looks like an old man with a head of whispy candy hair, but a child nonetheless. That’s why, when faced with any kind of opposition—whether it’s someone telling him to stop playing on his phone or someone developing nuclear weapons—his response is to immediately jump to…
Compared to most recent presidents and about 90 percent of all Twitter users, Donald Trump doesn’t exactly have the best grasp on general knowledge about the world. He’s somehow able to get through his average day without looking too stupid, but every once in a while his abject ignorance shows itself and we’re all…
Earlier this week, Kim Jong Nam—son of the late Kim Jong Il, and half-brother to current North Korean leader Kim Jong Un—died suddenly in Malaysia, under suspicious circumstances. Several people have been arrested for potential involvement in Kim’s death, including two women who allegedly sprayed him with some kind of…
Here in the United States, we tend to think of other countries as being weird and scary—so much so that a guy running for president has built almost his entire platform on it—but they’re really not all that different from us. Even the Democratic People’s Republic Of Korea is a lot like the U.S., despite how…
Between slowly starving to death and dodging the DVD copies of The Interview we assume are constantly falling from the sky, being North Korean sounds stressful. And when everything on TV has to be approved by a state-run propaganda agency (Game Of Thrones probably doesn’t make the cut), even unwinding in front of the…
Most of the world has probably forgotten The Interview by now, but a group of human rights activists in South Korea want to make sure that their brothers in North Korea never forget the movie and the brave stand that its stars—James Franco and Seth Rogen—made against tyranny. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a…
Furthering suspicions that The Interview is the only movie the North Korean government has ever heard of—aside from the biggest blockbuster of 2012, 2013, and 2014, Kim Jong-Un, Cool Guy With Great Haircut, Kill American Spy With One Punch—the country has accused the 65th Berlin International Film Festival of…
In an attempt to do what the CIA, Sony, and Vice could not, a “covert multi-national group” of activists calling itself Freedom Now has launched an Indiegogo campaign to topple the government of North Korea. The group is hoping to raise $10 million for its activities, which will include establishing an underground…
Yahoo! News reports that, after a weeks-long saga that we reported on at the time and aren’t going to get into here, Sony will release its beleaguered North Korea comedy The Interview on DVD and Blu-ray on February 17. This news should be well-received by the people who concocted a scheme to airdrop copies of the film…
Just when we thought this whole Sony hacking thing had been wrapped up in a big, seasonally appropriate, record-setting bow, an independent security firm has cast doubt on the FBI’s conclusion that North Korea was behind the Sony cyber attacks. Those attacks, in case you’ve been in hiding from the FBI yourself, led to …
Now that the FBI has weighed in on the hacking debacle that led to Sony’s decision to cancel its release of The Interview, you might think that this story has come to its logical end. You would be incorrect, however, as Sony and the White House are currently engaged in a game of “he said/she said” over President…
In a sign that not talking about North Korea may be Hollywood’s hottest new trend, Deadline reports that New Regency has scrapped plans for an upcoming thriller set in the reclusive Communist nation. This move comes after major theater chains have dropped The Interview, the North Korea-set comedy that has been at the…
Operations are apparently slowly resuming at Sony Pictures today after a group of hackers called the Guardians of Peace, or #GOP, shut down the company last week. Over the weekend, while the company’s networks and email systems were paralyzed, the group uploaded five new and upcoming Sony films onto file-sharing…