Tim Robinson has carved out an impressive niche in the comedy world. His brand of awkward comedy combines grounded scenarios ...

The trend of stretching simple stories over multiple movies has become increasingly popular in Hollywood, but Wicked: For ...

These reactionary and authoritarian actions are indicative of a post-truth society, in which beliefs and feelings too often “trump” facts, evidence, and reason. Many Americans seem locked into what ...

Jay has international fame, wealth, servants, and a gorgeous house on a hilltop, but he’s a lonely man at the end of his rope ...

In 1938, the federal government published the pamphlet Nuts and How to Use Them, which touted pecans’ nutritional value and ...

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 ...

“Welcome to Jurassic Park.” The four words that usher in a new generation of visual filmmaking. In that moment, when Richard Attenborough’s character welcomes the cast, and consequently, the viewer, ...

From the original Star Wars films to ‘80s classics like “Die Hard” and “Terminator” to the current box-office success of Marvel superhero movies, spectacles of violence and adventure are a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Toei-produced, female-driven, action/exploitation films known as “Pinky Violence” reached their crescendo in the late 1970s – and are almost single-handedly responsible for the first wave of ...

When T.S. Eliot wrote, “Mankind cannot bear much reality,” he inadvertently (“post-rock” hadn’t reached Oxford yet) described Montreal-based Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s bombastic sound. The band’s ...