I don’t know about you, but my brain is short-circuiting a bit from the news today, so I was glad to run across this video ...

I posted about the 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai coming out in theaters; here’s the trailer ...

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their ...

I don’t know about you, but my brain is short-circuiting a bit from the news today, so I was glad to run across this video of Benedict Cumberbatch reading Ross Beeley’s letter published by McSweeney’s ...

Oh this is just delightful: for the opening of his documentary film on the history of music on SNL he co-directed with Oz ...

Director Denis Villeneuve steps into the Criterion Closet to choose and talk about a few of his favorite films, including ...

80 years ago today, the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. An estimated 1.1 million people (Jews, Poles, ...

I spent too long playing Neal Agarwal’s Simulation Clicker. “Stimulation Clicker takes players on the all-too-familiar journey from ‘this is neat’ to ‘this is ruining my life.’” ...

I finished the last half of Shōgun, James Clavell’s 1200-page 1975 historical novel, on my recent vacation, riveted the enti ...

In later life, Marples was elevated to the peerage before fleeing to Monaco at very short notice to avoid prosecution for tax fraud. Once a runner, always a runner. (thx, dunstan) When you buy through ...

Moon Lidar is a visualization of the data collected by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) mission. According to t ...

So, a fan put them up on YouTube for X-Files fans to enjoy. The Cold Cases audio drama is 6 episodes and about 4 hours long; ...