Everything You Need to Know About the 2025 Met Gala
One of fashion’s most exciting nights is almost here: the Met Gala, where all eyes are on celebrities as they enter the Metropolitan Museum of Art while wearing works of…
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The Story Behind Japanese Action Thriller Bullet Train Explosion
Trains have been popular in cinema arguably since the beginning of film, when the Lumière brothers’ “The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station” became one of the first…
The True Story Behind Netflix’s Aviation Disaster Documentary A Tragedy Foretold: Flight 3054
On July 17, 2007, Brazil endured the worst aviation accident in the country’s history: the crash of a TAM Airlines plane, which left 199 people dead. The incident is also…
Read This Before You Watch Andor Season 2
When Star Wars fans were introduced to Cassian Andor nearly a decade ago in 2016’s Rogue One, Diego Luna’s steely captain was already a fully realized revolutionary ready to die…
Let’s Break Down How The Last of Us Handles That Major Death in Season 2
Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2, Episode 2. Let’s get right to it: In the second episode of Season 2 of The Last of…
What Netflix’s Oklahoma City Bombing Documentary Reveals About the Deadly Terror Attack
Thirty years ago, a truck bomb went off at a federal office building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children, in the deadliest domestic terror attack in the…
Sinners Is a Gory and Seductive Vampire Movie
Ryan Coogler’s extraordinary horror entertainment Sinners opens with a sequence that hits like one of those question-mark blues chords, a what-the-hell-is-happening? clang that might be setting you up for despair…
The Wedding Banquet Is a Joyous Update to a Queer Classic
Bringing children into the world and raising them is generally considered one of life’s great joys. But for some hopeful parents-to-be, just “letting things happen” isn’t an option. Gay couples…
The True Story Behind Netflix’s Chilling Dutch Thriller iHostage
On Feb. 22, 2022, a 27-year-old armed man entered the Apple Store in Leidseplein, Amsterdam, and held a customer at gunpoint for nearly five hours. He demanded €200 million in…
Photojournalist Fatma Hassona, Subject of an Upcoming Documentary, Killed in Gaza
An Israeli missile strike in Gaza Wednesday killed a Palestinian photojournalist featured in a documentary set to premiere in Cannes, France, in May. The journalist Fatma Hassona, 25, was known…