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How a collection of jump scares and killer animatronics shaped a decade of gaming culture.


The final scenes of Martin Scorsese’s recent films are part of a larger project.


Jada Pinkett Smith is talking about her marriage, and Americans are hearing what they want to.


Martin Scorsese knows that who gets to tell the story matters as much as the story that gets told.


The two big sticking points between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP, explained.


Wes Anderson’s new Netflix shorts are the latest case for the form.


The anger of entitled “good guys.”


The movies have had it with bad men.


The Exorcist: Believer shows how American religion and Hollywood movies have shifted.


Remember when Netflix’s competitors, like Warner Bros., kept their biggest stuff on their own streaming services? That’s so 2021.


Michael Oher says the story of his adoption by a white family was never true and that they exploited him.


Wait, were the short sellers right about GameStop?


Here’s what’s coming in the WGA’s new contract.


Savior Complex, The Mission, and the culture behind toxic missionary work.


Is a movie still just a movie if it becomes a culture war battleground?


On the AMPTP’s identity crisis, Drew Barrymore, the fall TV calendar, and whether this will ever end.


A look at how workers in and outside of Hollywood are being hit by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.


Why concertgoers keep throwing things at celebrities and no one can shut up at the movies.


Oppenheimer’s Trinity Site is where the end began.


What we can learn from July’s record-breaking movie month.


For more than 40 years, the character entertained kids and adults alike with his cockeyed comedic sensibility.


The bomb has haunted pop culture since the Cold War. But it’s different now.


Is Oppenheimercore on the way?


How the Barbieheimer memes became a real summer movie phenomenon.


A Barbie aficionado and certified doll expert explains why life in plastic has suddenly become so fantastic.


The exisKENtial crisis of Barbie.


The so-called “father of the bomb” helped bring us prematurely into the age of existential risk.


Brand collabs and Barbenheimer memes catapulted Barbie hype to new heights.


Christopher Nolan’s masterful epic continues his long-running obsessions.


Turns out Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie is a Biblical metaphor after all.


Did you decapitate your Barbies? Or make them kiss?


In Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise once again leads a franchise that’s all about trickery, subterfuge, and the nature of reality itself.


It’s been 15 years since the last WGA strike, and the stakes are far greater.


SAG-AFTRA now joins the WGA on the picket line. What does that mean for viewers?


Vietnam banned Barbie over a map featuring the nine-dash line. Here’s why that matters.


What happens if everybody walks off the job?


The new Indiana Jones movie hits different in the IP age.


Dude, where’s my show?
In order to go big, sometimes filmmakers go small.


Life, the universe, and everything, through both the telescope and the microscope.