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James Cameron Slams Netflix And Weighs In On The Side Of Paramount For Warner...
Cameron even wants the U.S. Senate to block the Netflix bid. Either way, “the clock is ticking, but for those who may not be...
Our Inability To Focus On Books Isn’t A Failing
It’s a design flaw, and it can be fixed. “We have been here before. Not just once, but repeatedly, in a pattern so consistent...
Bow To Trump’s Vision Of The Country If You Want A Grant, Museums And...
“The directive to hew to Trump’s preferences unnerved some grant writers, reviewers and former recipients accustomed to nonpartisanship from the agency, stirring debate over...
AMC Started Playing An AI-Generated ‘Film’ Before Movies, But Had To Stop Almost Immediately
“Some called for boycotts. Some found it insulting that if pre-show screen time were being given to short films, AMC would feature AI-generated content...
From The British Point Of View, What Really Are The BAFTAs Anymore?
One British producer in a year in which exactly one British actor was nominated in the two major acting awards: “The Baftas fall between...
Why The BAFTAs Are Important, From The Point Of View Of The Oscars
If you’re in Hollywood, well, “the BAFTAs are the British movie industry’s major award show and also widely seen as a bellwether for the...
Toni Morrison, And The Power Of Ambiguity
“Fiction has no obligation to dispel ambiguity. It can make use of it—even intensify it—in order to evoke and transform experience. In Beloved, Morrison does take...
When ‘The Pitt’ Wanted To Portray A Rape Kit Collection Storyline, They Called In...
The writers didn’t want to focus on the survivor’s trauma. “The story serves to bolster the emotional arc of the show’s healthcare providers, in...
How Cornwall Shaped British Writers, And British Imagination
Winston Graham of Poldark, Virginia Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, and many other writers drew - and continue to draw - inspiration from the moors,...
The British Museum Has Removed The Word Palestine And Palestinians From Its Middle East...
“Concerns were recently raised by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLIF), a voluntary group of solicitors, about references to ‘Palestine’ in displays covering the ancient Levant and...
How Pokémon Became A Source Of Massive Soft Cultural Power
It’s a card game! It’s an app! It’s a movie! It’s a meme! It’s a stuffie (or a lot of stuffies)! But truly, what...
Berlinale Defends Jury President Wim Wenders Post-Soundbite About Gaza That Led Arundhati Roy To...
The festival head said, "Artists should not be expected to comment on all broader debates about a festival’s previous or current practices over which...
Bring Back Ski Ballet!
Nothing is “nutty” in the Olympics now. Ski ballet was a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992, but "unlike the other two freestyle disciplines,...
How Many Times Can One Man Win Cowboy Poet Of The Year, A Real...
At least three. “The Western Music Association describes the award as recognizing a person who writes ‘with imaginative power and beauty of thought, with...
The Women Of Bauhaus
“The German art school turned political and cultural engine founded in 1919,” and its “principles included absolute equality between male and female participants — or...
How Toni Morrison’s Courage And Daring Shaped The Way We Think
“She became the only black woman ever to win the Nobel prize in literature. But the facts remain: she is difficult to read. She is difficult...
Behind The Scenes Of The Lion Dance
“Because information about lion dancing in English is scarce, Chan led a group of Kei Lun Martial Arts members on a research trip to...
As Minneapolis Starts Construction On A Memorial To George Floyd, It’s Dealing With Two...
The mayor’s office says Minneapolis is “actively working on next steps, including continued community engagement regarding both memorials.” - Minnesota Public Radio
We Need To Talk About Heathcliff, Emily Bronte, And Race
“The ‘dynamics of this novel are about otherness in various ways, and that otherness is in Heathcliff.’ Onscreen, however, Heathcliff has largely been played...
Generative AI Is Pretty Bad At Video Game Worlds
It might never improve enough. “Even in the most ambitious view where AI technology is feasibly able to generate worlds that are as responsive...
Is Warner Bros Back To (Sky)Dancing With Paramount?
“Paramount Skydance’s latest offer — No. 9 since last year — includes a premium ‘ticking fee’ for WBD shareholders of about $650 million for...
Translating Holocaust Literature At This Particular Moment In History Is Fraught – And Vital
“As many as one-third of all Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide perished on Soviet territory. Yet … narratives of this experience remain largely...
What Happens To A City’s Public Space When A Huge Event – Say, A...
Ask Los Angeles. “My favorite part was how the plaza was filled with people marveling at very talented graffiti artists making Foot Locker-branded murals...
As ‘Wuthering Heights’ Is Critically Crushed But Winning The Box Office, NPR Asks What...
“When you read a book, you live inside it — you're intellectually and emotionally invested, because you create its world in your mind.” But...
The Zombie Internet Is Here To Eat, Or Rot, All Of Our Brains
What are the consequences of a “human-free” internet? - Fast Company
