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What Directors Have To Say About ‘Wasting’ Money On Their Movie Sets
“You don’t have a right to make your movie, because it costs so much and you need so much help. You do have to...
K-Pop Demon Hunters, But Make It Classical
Does this have rizz? Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins has recorded a classical reinterpretation” of “Golden,” from K-Pop Demon Hunters. - BBC
Literary Authors Are Writing Romances Under Pseudonyms And Never, Ever Talking About Romance In...
Gross. "Every type of writing requires specific attention to detail. For people not to take that seriously (and to ask for your help in...
Rosa Von Praunheim, The Pioneer Of Gay Cinema In Germany, Has Died At 83
“His second feature, entitled It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, premiered at the Berlin film...
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Why? Because a comedian knew what was coming. “Morton isn’t in the game to sell off his domains. ... Instead, he buys them with...
Chicago’s NPR Station Created A ‘Theatre Club’ For Younger Audience Members, And Advertised It...
The first club meetup included “an exclusive Theater Club post-show talkback with artists who worked on the show, and a drink ticket that can...
Bradford Ends Its ‘City Of Culture’ Year
How did it go? “The year-long celebration cost around £51m and generated audiences of three million people.” OK. Also, train traffic from London went...
Sinners Is The Most Culturally Important Film Of 2025
“Hollywood machers were convinced the film would never make money and that Warner Bros’ big gamble ‘could be the end of the studio system.’...
The Secrets Of The Women Of The Frick
The Frick’s new chief curator loves nothing more than researching the women on the walls. "What captured Ng’s attention, though, was Lady Skipwith’s forlorn...
How Some Regional Theatres Are Surviving
One way is by, let’s say, not being intense with their audiences. “My first covenant is with the audience, and I care about what...
Tom Hanks Literally Wrote His Own Script This Time
“I embarked on this endeavor, partly fueled by a desire to bring to life onstage a sense of lives caught between the certainties of...
The Fight For Warner Bros Is Messing Up Some Longtime Hollywood Allies
"Disaster, catastrophe and nightmare. That's how Hollywood's creative workers describe the fall of the once mighty Warner Bros, as Netflix and Paramount battle to...
A Cyberattack Forces An Oregon Library System Offline For Days
No book drops, no events, no audio books, no catalog, no buildings open: That’s what a cyberattack did to the Deschutes County Library system...
Co-Starring With A Dog Is One Thing, But A Bird Of Prey?
“Everything on set revolved around the hawks’ well-being. Filming took place between October and January, to avoid molting season. Everyone in the crew wore...
Sinners Is About Black Creativity Changing Everything
“Ryan Coogler’s supersized supernatural blockbuster fused critical and commercial enthusiasm into a kind of mass obsessive fervor. It became, for a few weeks, the...
The Year-End Book List You’ve Been Waiting For
The 173 best book covers out there. Yes, 173. - LitHub
Is Filmmaking Actually Meeting The Political Moment?
Maybe? “This isn’t a bad batting average, with movies about everything from the melding of Silicon Valley and politics to authoritarianism, nationalism and racism....
What Was Dance Magazine Focusing On During The Sixties?
The magazine, called something else earlier, has been around since before the Great Depression. In the 1960s, though, "dance emerged as a potent form...
It’s A Wonderful Life Has A Lot Of Life Lessons
And hey, why not learn three keys to financial literacy from one of the most highly played Christmas movies in the world? (Actually! This...
Physical Media Is Becoming Cool Again
Whether it’s thanks to Gen-Z or thanks to a (terrifying) nonstop surveillance state intertwined with our televisions and speakers, CDs and DVDs are making...
Rob Reiner, Director Of When Harry Met Sally, Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap...
Reiner was “a writer, director, producer, actor and political activist whose career in Hollywood spanned more than six decades and included some of the most...
Rob Reiner, Actor Turned Director, And His Wife Michele Found Dead In Los Angeles
News broke late Sunday night that "the Los Angeles Police Department said it was investigating an ‘apparent homicide’ at the couple’s home in West...
What Would It Take To Make Concert Tickets Accessible Again?
It’s clear that what we need is two policy changes: "Capping or curbing resale, so that you can only pass a ticket on at...
How Letterboxd Took Over – And Improved – Amateur Movie Reviewing
“One of my friends has cultivated a list of 30 movies about ‘Fucked-Up British People,’ while I made ‘crash out cinema,’ a collection of...
Dick Van Dyke At 100 Is A Fully Wonderful Argument For Dancing Every Day...
“He has outlived mentors, co-stars, romantic partners and several studios. He’s even outlived the jokes about his performance in Mary Poppins. These days his mangled...
