Four years after his death and a half-century after his One Hundred Years of Solitude introduced much of the world to magical realism, Gabriel García Márquez might be pleased to know that the literary genre he helped popularize is now flourishing on screen.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, and try again. You might win yourself an Oscar.
Jordan Peele had already made Oscars history just with his trifecta of nominations. When he won the award for best original screenplay last night (March 4), he made history twice more.
No matter which film wins the best picture Academy Award on Sunday, it won’t be a box office blockbuster.
The 90th Academy Awards are this Sunday (March 4) at 8pm ET. For the first time in many years, the best picture race is completely wide open, as at least four films have realistic chances of taking home the highest honor in cinema.
I love the Oscars, and have since I was very young. My first Oscars memory is Titanic winning best picture in 1998; I was seven years old and remember finding it weird that James Cameron, during his acceptance speech, asked the audience for a moment of silence for the people who died on the ill-fated ship 86 years prior. Then he immediately followed with, “Now let’s go party till dawn.” Yeah, I still think that was weird.
An American teenager asked a US senator directly to his face if he’d stop accepting money from the National Rifle Association after the latest horrific school shooting. The senator waffled, so the young man asked the question again, and again, until eventually the senator provided a tepid half-answer.
Shortly before venturing into a mysterious uninhabited biome known only as “The Shimmer,” a psychologist and a biologist take a few minutes to discuss the difference between suicide and self-destruction.
I was watching the new IMAX trailer for the colossal monster movie Pacific Rim: Uprising (video) the other day when I was struck by an intense feeling of déjà vu. I had never seen the trailer before, nor had I watched the first Pacific Rim movie. So what felt so familiar? Was it resurfaced memories of the Zords, the similarly gigantic fighting machines from the hit 1990s children’s series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers?
It’s become something of a cliché to say a film (or television series) has good “world-building.” Often, it’s actually a backhanded compliment, meant to imply that while the setting a film’s characters and story inhabit may be unique and convincingly realized, those characters and story fail to populate it with anything interesting.
Seventeen people were gunned down at a high school in Parkland, Florida yesterday (Feb. 14) in the 18th school shooting in the United States this year. The alleged shooter, a 19-year-old former student of the school who was expelled for violent behavior, posted disturbing images of guns and knives on social media, and reportedly had expressed white supremacist sentiments to classmates.
As the American news and comedy worlds succumb to the perpetual circus of the Donald Trump White House, John Oliver wants to remind everyone that there are other important issues worth probing.
The “best in Show” winner at the Westminster dog show, which begins tomorrow (Feb. 12), will probably be male. That’s because female dogs start out the competition at a huge disadvantage.
In the future, your robot babysitter will be able to tell if your child has a fever.
Jóhann Jóhannsson, who composed the scores for Arrival, Sicario, and The Theory of Everything, died yesterday (Feb. 10), his management team announced. He was 48. The cause of death is currently unknown.
There aren’t many Olympic events that the United States hasn’t medaled in. Today, there’s one fewer.
Today (Feb. 9) is the greatest American holiday of all: National Pizza Day. At a particularly divisive and hostile moment in US history, National Pizza Day allows people of all creeds, backgrounds, and religions to come together to share their love for the conceptually perfect food.
The swashbuckling Tom Cruise has one-upped himself yet again. The Hollywood actor learned how to fly a helicopter specifically so that he could risk his life filming a stunt in the upcoming Mission: Impossible sequel, a behind-the-scenes video for the film revealed.
Lucasfilm announced something yesterday (Feb. 6) that, deep down, we all knew was inevitable: The Game of Thrones creators are making a new series of Star Wars films. Because of course they are.
In a 2003 interview, Quentin Tarantino tried to justify Roman Polanski’s rape of a 13-year-old girl, opining that it was not actually rape and that the girl “wanted to have it.”
For a few wonderful hours, The Cloverfield Paradox was going to be one of the coolest movies of the year.
Decades of psychological research tell us that humans crave certainty and closure. Ambiguity, on the other hand, makes us deeply uncomfortable. It goes against our very nature, one that seeks to know things conclusively and to understand them and to feel safe in that knowledge and understanding.
Everyone’s favorite slow cooker, Crock-Pot, had to make a Twitter account last week just to tell people that it won’t kill them like it killed the dad on NBC’s hit family drama This Is Us.
Donald Trump gave his first State of the Union address as US president last night (Jan. 30). In an unusually low-energy speech, Trump focused on many of the things that have come to define his idea of what America is: rampant gang violence, widespread radical Islamic terrorism, and uncontrollable illegal immigration.