reboot
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15 of the Best Reboots of Shows You Loved As a Kid
Barney’s coming back, y’all, with Mattel announcing a new, animated update to Barney & Friends, the slightly unnerving 1992–2010 series. It’s a shocking thought, but kids who watched Barney back in the day might reasonably have kids at about the right age to catch the new one. Besides that, Netflix kicked off a reboot of…
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33 Movie Sequels That Exemplify the Best and Worst of Nostalgia
The first trailer for the long-in-coming fourth Matrix film dropped last week, and it’s looking good — but were I trying to explain the premise of The Matrix Resurrections based only on that new footage, I’d probably wind up more or less describing The Matrix (the 1999 original, that is). Is this thing really a continuation…
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The First and Best Way to Troubleshoot a Fussy Device
I’m almost surprised I have to write this, but when my friends and roommates come to me with technological quirks to solve, I always hit them with one answer off the top of my head. And more often than not, it’s the single thing they need to do to fix any issue they’re having.
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How to Set and Keep Your Reading Goal This Year
Every year I make a vague-but-ambitious resolution to “read more,” and every year I start strong but lose momentum after about three months. It’s not for lack of interest or trying — I just haven’t set a realistic goal that involves reading books I actually like.