Movies

Google seems to have a Google addiction. If you click on a hyperlink in Google’s chatbot-style search tool, AI Mode, you are likely to be looped into another Google search, according to a new study from SE Ranking, a search engine…

Will the ping-pong picture prevail? Will they make Sean Penn a special trophy for Best Walk? Will Conan O'Brien's ICE jokes get bleeped by Disney?Who knows! That's why the Oscars are so much fun—but they're especially fun this year.Oscar…

It’s been over 30 years since Louis Theroux was first given an opportunity to make documentaries as a reporter on Michael Moore’s TV Nation.Since then Theroux has become the preeminent documenter of the weird, the extreme, and the…

Less than a year ago, Skydance Media closed its $8 billion merger with Paramount, making the Trump-friendly Ellison family—billionaire Oracle founder Larry and his son David, CEO of Paramount Skydance—among the most powerful media moguls in…

No matter how well your favorite streaming service’s algorithm knows you, come February, sometimes even the smartest technology can be swayed by the power of Valentine’s Day. Hence all those romance-heavy promos at the top of your screen,…

An insurrectionist robot unleashed by a mad inventor in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. HAL 9000 sabotaging a manned mission to Jupiter in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Skynet, the self-aware global defense network that seeks to exterminate humanity…

Jonathan Nolan saw this coming. As a screenwriter, he’s worked on several of his brother Christopher Nolan’s films, from Interstellar to the Dark Knight movies. Partnered with his wife Lisa Joy, he created HBO’s Westworld and executive…

Name: Jared Vegas, administrative vice chair of Kern County Young RepublicansWhat do you love most about Melania?I'm going to be honest, I don't know a ton about the First Lady. That's why I'm really excited to see this movie, just to learn…

The Winter Olympics were created a century ago, in 1924, just a few years before the dawn of the talkie. In the 100-plus years that followed, the Games have provided story after story full of cinematic possibility.Below is a selection of…

“You’re seriously asking for my view on The English Patient?!” the late author David Foster Wallace squirms, midway through a lengthy 1997 PBS interview with Charlie Rose.The host had been grilling Wallace, ostensibly invited on to discuss…