Anyone paying serious attention to the Academy Awards knows that – despite the hype and pretension – Oscars don’t always land ...

Modern newswriting still runs on conventions engineered for the telegraph—speed first, cut from the bottom, clarity through simplification—yet it is tasked with narrating wars that demand history and ...

In the post-COVID landscape, where theatrical attendance has changed dramatically, Dwayne Johnson's once-guaranteed success ...

In case we don’t get the point, Orlean (author of 'The Orchard Thief' and 'The Library Book'), reminds us numerous times that she falls into one of two categories of writers: “those who have something ...

The final film I saw was, by far, the standout of the festival. Sundance has built a reputation for launching powerful documentaries, and this year Poh Is Teng’s American Doctor proved triumphant. The ...

A lot of this optimism appeared to have dissipated by the time the two sides held another round of talks on Feb. 26. While mediator Oman’s negotiators continued to talk of progress, the U.S. side was ...

On a sweltering summer day in 2013, a single tweet from Tahrir Square sparked a global conversation. Armed with nothing but smartphones, Egyptian protesters captured the raw energy of a movement that ...

Disney’s multi-billion-dollar empire rests largely in the hands of 11 fairytale princesses. We all know their stories. We all have a favorite. For nearly eight decades, these young royals have ...

Anyone who enjoys dissecting the technical aspects of film should add The Cinema Within to their viewing list. The new documentary takes a fascinating look at cinematic editing, using the broadest of ...

Many nights, Spooks turn on their shortwave radios and drift through the frequencies. On any given night, one can hear amateur radio stations broadcasting church sermons, utility traffic for aircrafts ...

There’s an interesting dissonance between changing times and values. Younger generations typically push the cultural envelope at first, then decry the generations that follow as they age. What remains ...

When Kurt Cobain put a bullet to his head – 20 years ago, as of this past April – he scrawled a now-infamous lyric from the Neil Young song “Hey Hey, My My” in the suicide note he left behind: “It’s ...