By Tessa Nolan There is a moment early in The Strangers when Ekow Eshun describes taking a Brillo pad to his own face at the…
By Tessa Nolan There is a particular species of Hollywood memoir that operates as a victory lap dressed as humility. Ed Zwick’s Hits, Flops, and…
By Alexander Stone Forty-eight hundred kilometres beneath the surface, a ball of iron and nickel roughly the size of the Moon is doing something scientists…
By Tessa Nolan When Denis Villeneuve’s Dune arrived in cinemas in October 2021, it carried a burden that had crushed every previous filmmaker who dared…
By Sara Bright The dust has finally settled. On 4 May 2026, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni announced a settlement of their bitter legal dispute…
By Alexander Stone On a Friday evening in mid-November 2025, a statement landed that should have felt like a non-event. Disney and YouTube TV had…
By Sara Bright Sara Bright When Diane Keaton died on 11 October 2025, at the age of 79, the cause was bacterial pneumonia. The family’s…
By Sara Bright On 18 July 1937, Adolf Hitler inaugurated the Haus der Kunst in Munich with a speech declaring “merciless war” on cultural disintegration,…
By Sara Bright In January 1962, a 29-year-old woman from Indiana stood before the cameras of LIFE magazine and issued a declaration that was equal…
By Sara Bright The dead, it turns out, are extremely profitable. In September 2021, Netflix acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company for more than $700…