The Thin Line Between Biopic and Propaganda
A presidential biopic can also zoom in on a crucial juncture in a leader’s life: Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln explored its ...
The Hollywood AI Database
Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.
Trump’s New York Sentencing Must Proceed
The potential exception is the New York State case. In May, a jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts related to ...
How Jimmy O. Yang Became a Main Character
The actor spent years stuck in small, clichéd roles. Now, starring in Interior Chinatown, he’s figuring out who he wants to ...
De La Soul’s Mistake and Hip-Hop’s Lost Opportunity
A new book revisits the revolutionary trio’s decision to renounce its debut album, and the implications for the future of ...
‘We’re Just Going to Have to Deal With Him’
In the short term, sources told me, the plan is to cozy up to Trump and those close to him and hope for the best. In the long ...
The Many Sides of Charli XCX
On SNL, the singer showed that she can be goofy and versatile.
Stop Looking at Your Therapist
In psychoanalysis, Freud thought a therapist being out of view would help people access emotions or memories that might be ...
Nick Cave’s Revised Rules for Men
Cave seemed taken aback by the idea that he himself was an authority on the subject. “It feels weird to think that I might be ...
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This is Your Brain on Zero
About 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers ...
A Classic Blockbuster for a Sunday Afternoon
Jen grew up training as a dancer and watching classic movies with her mom, which instilled in her a love for film and its ...
American Kakistocracy
Italy knows a thing or two about what the United States faces—but there are key differences between the two countries’ ...