Friday essay: I was enthralled by Crime and Punishment at 14. Rereading it after 60 years, I’m still awed
Sonya makes the only reply possible: “But that louse was a human being!” It was nearly…
Mineral vs chemical sunscreens? Science shows the difference is smaller than you think
“Mineral-only” sunscreens are making huge inroads into the sunscreen market, driven by fears of “chemicals”, a…
Blast from the past: 15 movie gems of 1985
The Company of Wolves Credit: ITC Entertainment Director Neil Jordan’s sumptuous Gothic fantasy horror is a…
The 2025 WooCommerce holiday gift guide
For the past four years, we’ve curated a gift guide to feature some awesome Woo stores,…
Nintendo drops official trailer for Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Nintendo officially announced The Super Mario Galaxy Movie in September with the briefest of teasers, showing…
Why is it so hard to take a good photo of the Moon with my phone?
It’s a beautiful clear night. The stars are out and the Moon looks breathtaking against the…
The artifice of the manosphere comes to the screen. It’s comedic – but also confronting
“BE LIKE WATER” demands a poster of Bruce Lee’s glistening torso while an archetypal Alpha Man…
FPJ’s ECO-Ganesha BMC Awards 2025: Honoring Mumbai’s Eco-Warriors
The sixth edition of FPJ’s ECO-Ganesha BMC Awards 2025 celebrated individuals and community groups for their…
What roles could AI actors fill? | DW News
Tilly Norwood hasn’t starred in a single movie, yet she’s already the talk of Hollywood. This…
The Australian Ballet’s flawless, breathtaking Prism is a significant coming of age for the company
I was blown away. Dancers move in groups and individually away from and onto the barre….
AI systems can easily lie and deceive us – a fact researchers are painfully aware of
In the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronaut Dave Bowman asks the ship’s artificial intelligence,…
Pennywise gets an origin story in Welcome to Derry trailer
[embedded content] Director Andy Muschietti’s two-film adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling horror novel IT racked up…
Wealthy, whiny and wildly tone deaf: Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir exemplifies ‘priv-lit’
Could I maybe give you some kind of grant? Can I write you a check? How…
Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the destructiveness of war and the hope that lies in fiction
But what is also dramatised to great effect in Desolation is the degree to which war…
Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
When The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, no one could have dreamed that it…
Rewatching Picnic at Hanging Rock at 50: an unsettling portrayal of place, silence and disappearance
Picnic at Hanging Rock remains powerful today, especially in light of ongoing discussions about Indigenous sovereignty…
How to grow revenue with automation and personalization
Operational efficiency and effective customer-facing processes are top priorities for growing ecommerce businesses. One of the…
Israeli activist: ‘Settlers in the West Bank are allowed now to do almost anything’ | DW News
A radical Israeli settler accused of killing a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Monday…
Synths hunt down deadly monsters in latest Alien: Earth trailer
[embedded content] The premiere of Alien: Earth is just weeks away, and FX/Hulu dropped one last…
Species at 30 makes for a great guilty pleasure
That said, Giger didn’t much care for the final film, which he thought was much too…
Scandal has erupted over bestselling memoir The Salt Path. In the ‘fake news’ era, what’s the standard for truth in memoir?
While in the book they wrote they had nowhere to go, the Observer reports that the…
Ars reflects on Apollo 13 turning 30
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Oscar-winning film, Apollo 13, director Ron Howard’s…
Vietnam War Secrets Buried Underground
Millions of bombs, napalm raids, hidden tunnels, and scorched villages… This film revisits one of the…