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Jessica first heard the bang in the early morning hours. It’s an unearthly sound, a loud thump she describes as a big concrete ball...

When Chinese government officials unexpectedly detained controversial artist Ai Weiwei — keeping him for 81 days in an undisclosed location — it ignited a firestorm of protests across the world that reinforced Ai’s calls for democracy in China...

Once upon a time, the world was filled with magic and wonder. But that was “once upon a time.” Nowadays, the world is dull...

"Hollywood cinema has had a complicated relationship with race and ethnicity since its very beginning,” says Luis I. Reyes at the beginning of his...

Enzo Ferrari wants to win. Before he was the founder of the Italian luxury car manufacturer Ferrari S.p.A. and the similarly named Grand Prix...

I admired much of the original Happy Feet (2006), but five years later, I’m still considering suing its makers for emotional distress...

We don’t take enough time to stop and look around. That’s clear. We’re missing a lot of the good stuff — the artistic patterning in our architecture, the glint of airplanes in sunlight, the blur of a seagull’s wings against a gray sky, the flicker and shine of our ...

The most important thing to know before attempting to endure the lumbering bore that is Need for Speed is this: every single character in the film is unspeakably dumb. Presumably set in a world where humans never mentally evolved from an animal state, the movie ...

When Talking Heads frontman, and all around art rock god, David Byrne was contacted by a color guard team looking to license one of...

Pap, but easygoing pap with a cast you can live with for a couple of hours, We Bought a Zoo is co-writer and director Cameron Crowe’s adaptation of a memoir by Benjamin Mee entitled We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the...

Writer/director Darren Aronofsky’s mother! is a dense, gorgeously made, challenging, total piece of shit. It is every bit the treatise on feminism and modern...

At the end of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, house-servantturned-space-commander Riff Raff threatens the sequinned-and-fishnetted Dr. Frank-N-Furter with a laser trident and yells, “Say goodbye to all of this, and hello to oblivion...