Peter McIndoe, the 23-year-old creator of the viral Birds Aren’t Real movement, is ready to reveal what the effort is really about.

"Misinformation has ruled the sociopolitical roost for the last few years, but it took a year like 2021 for the trend to make a convincing leap into the realm of wellness, or what used to be known as health and fitness. Vaccines, obviously, were the straw the broke the camel’s back. Earlier this year, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) revealed that the proliferation of false statements made online about COVID-19 could be traced back to just 12 people: the “disinformation dozen.” That group includes politicians and religious leaders, but it also includes bodybuilders and chiropractors."

"Recently I attended a maskless party outdoors with friends I’ve known for years, only to be confronted with a different type of mask. In the time since the pandemic first upended our lives, it wasn’t just the world that had changed but the faces. Lifted, plumped, and smoothed, the women at this party looked almost unrecognizable—less like themselves and more like one another."

"In April, I described vibes as, ultimately, moments of audiovisual eloquence, ephemeral, multisensory collisions so sharp that they amount to poetry. They can be recorded and shared as TikTok videos or just observed as fleeting impressions. Sometimes a particular image is a vibe. Or an action is a vibe, or an aesthetic, or a feeling. It’s anything that becomes representative of a mood in society at large, to which one can point and say, “That’s a vibe.” Here are some of the strongest vibes I’ve registered in 2021. Call it my attempt to capture the year’s ambiguous nonverbal phenomena, both positive and negative."

"Ever since And Just Like That … ruthlessly killed off Mr. Big via Chekhov’s Peloton, everyone from me to Jonah Hill has been screaming the same question into the void: Why the fuck didn’t Carrie call 911??? And then I couldn’t help but wonder: Could Carrie have saved Big’s life if she immediately called an ambulance, instead of staring at him for a very long time before low-key drowning him in the shower? The world is owed a real answer, and I’m the best detective for the case due to an important combination of factors: my love of pointless internet research and my friend who is a cardiologist."

Set in Argentina 1960, this 14 minute, true-crime animated documentary follows the story of secret agent Zvi Aharoni as he hunted down one of the highest ranking Nazi war criminals on the run.

You can read much more about Eichmann and his crimes, capture, trial, and death in a massive five-part series Hannah Arendt wrote for The New Yorker in 1963 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

The Rescue chronicles the against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. The Rescue shines a light on the high-risk world of cave diving, the astounding courage and compassion of the rescuers, and the shared humanity of the international community that united to save the boys.

America’s seniors have discovered the fountain of youth. It’s in The Villages, FL. With Some Kind of Heaven, hailed as one of 2020's best docs, first-time feature director Lance Oppenheim cracks the manicured facade of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community – a massive, self-contained utopia located in Central Florida. Behind the gates of this palm tree-lined fantasyland, Some Kind of Heaven invests in the dreams and desires of a small group of Villages residents – and one interloper – who are unable to find happiness within the community’s pre-packaged paradise.

From writer Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), Harlem is a new comedy following a group of stylish and ambitious best girlfriends in Harlem NYC, the mecca of Black culture in America. Camille is a popular young anthropology professor at Columbia with extensive knowledge of the dating norms of many cultures, but has a hard time navigating her own love life; Tye is a successful, queer dating app creator who prefers keeping vulnerability—and romantic partners—at arm’s length; Quinn is a hopeless romantic and trust fund fashion designer who is trying to give back to the world while running a struggling business; Angie is a confident, vibrant, and filter-free singer and actress who also lives rent-free and fabulously with Quinn. Together, they level up from their 20s into the next phase of their careers, relationships, and big city dreams.

Thirty years after director Oliver Stone’s first examination of JFK’s assassination, Stone chaotically reassesses the horrific event that shaped a generation. Using newly declassified and reexamined footage, Stone presents a case that conspiracy theories about the president’s death are actually “conspiracy facts.” Narrated by Donald Sutherland...and Whoopi Goldberg?

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