The nightmare queue to enter CES:Unveiled

The first big event at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas is CES: Unveiled, a press event designed to show off some of the year's best new items. In practice, it's often a bit of a letdown (Gizmodo's Brian Lam found this year's thin pickings engendered a sense of "crippling cynicism") because the best stuff is announced the next day at individual press conferences. But that doesn't stop the attending hordes forming a queue hours before the doors are set to open!

The nightmare queue to enter CES:Unveiled

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The Phantom Menace to enter Criterion Collection?

Kevin McLeod argues that George Lucas' Star Wars prequels were a landmark moment in cinema: "Not only are these patterns not random, but they also intentionally and artfully tell a story outside (and inside) the surface drama that unfolds among the protagonists. Lucas' visual ingenuity is relentless; he offers us a strikingly revolutionary level of storytelling." [LAT: Hero Complex]

The Phantom Menace to enter Criterion Collection?

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