Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers starts out with a very Almodóvar situation, two single women about to give birth, but the movie’s really about the ongoing fallout from the many extrajudicial murders committed by Franco's regime, a topic most Spaniards have spent decades avoiding. - The New York Times Magazine
He'd made some comedy-horror mashups and one arthouse hit when he set to work on the Tolkien adaptations, so he wasn't someone you'd think of giving nine-figure budgets to. The bet paid off, of course: the films took in $3 billion. Here's how they came together. - Variety
For several years, a mixture of denial and deep optimism have kept up the facade. News outlet leaders believe that, since others are perceived to have success with podcasting, their payoff must be right around the corner. - NiemanLab
Early that morning, when she tried to log in to Instagram, she found that the account had been disabled. A message on the screen read: “Your account has been blocked for pretending to be someone else.” - The New York Times
In the film categories, Belfast and The Power of the Dog got seven nominations each; on the television side, Succession received five nods, with four each for Ted Lasso and The Morning Show. - CNN
It is political not in a partisan sense but because the way we teach and protect children — and choose which children to teach and protect — is inevitably bound up in politicized ideas. - The New York Times
Peloton bounced back in a big way: It resurrected Mr. Big for a commercial featuring none other than Peter Noth and Peloton instructor Jessica King. The dramatic advertisement quickly blew up online, amassing more than 45,000 likes on Twitter and spurring a slew of headlines. - Los Angeles Times
Indeed, the Spanish "obscures the fact that the entire film and its depiction of Puerto Rican communities are still inherently mediated through the story’s original white male creators, and now, through the film’s white director, white screenwriter, white cinematographer, and mostly white producers." - Slate
As the studio pushed West Side Story back last year, allegations of assault against one of the movie's main characters burst into public consciousness. How has public perception been altered, or controlled, since? - Variety
The series is ending, but its costumes and other props will live on at the Emily Dickenson Museum, while the made-for-TV carefully recreated manuscripts are heading to join their real kin at Harvard. "It’s one legacy that blends into another." - The New York Times
And no, that's not because "Gen Z doesn't like musicals" or something like that. Instead, it's a Spielberg problem. "Over the last 20 years, he has worked, numerous times now, in a self-styled obsessive genre that I would call the Metaphorical Topical Statement." - Variety
Turns out that much complained about and, to Hollywood, highly disruptive move was a winner for its streamer, HBO Max. Through day-and-date movie releases including Dune, "HBO Max may have found a way to hack the streaming wars." - Wired
The lawsuit claims that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association expelled Magnus Sundholm to get back at his partner, who had been a whistleblower against the group. - Los Angeles Times
Photos shot as part of Cold War propaganda in 1970 show the utopian ideals - including Jim Henson's love of creativity and everyone's experimentation to reach kids with the least money and hope, and show them a world of possibility. - The Guardian (UK)
The stories a grandfather on the Dingle Peninsula told his grandson of a visiting American, a scholar who took video with a hand-crank camera, led to the discovery in Chicago of hours of silent film reels from 1925 and 1926. - The New York Times
