screenshot: Downfall (2004) There’s a reason books about Hitler consistently outsell books about Churchill. As long as it’s kept at arm’s length, abstracted into words or images, and not in our faces or in our houses, andvile is way more compelling than good. These 10 people are among the worst humans in history—merciless despots, ruthless … Read more
Image: Sunrise / Crunchyroll Last year, Netflix brought us Gundam: Hathawaya modern entry in the mecha franchise’s vaunted “Universal Century” timeline that, despite the weight of context upon it, served as an interesting entry into a decades-old saga. This year, we have another gundam movie on the way—but it’s one that works best if you … Read more
Few series have made Hollywood and its fame-hungry residents look more pitiful, shameful, and altogether gross as The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, a three-part Netflix affair (Sept. 21) about the group of LA teens who committed a string of robberies—including, famously, on the homes of celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Audrina Patridge, Rachel Bilson, … Read more
All Quiet on the Western Front has a new full-color version, bringing the classic book to life—and showing an even more devastating view of the harrowing realities of the Great War. Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran and journalist, wrote the 1928 book and was forced into exile in Switzerland for criticizing the war and … Read more
The original script for the 2022 comedy series man vs. beewhich stars co-creator Rowan Atkinson of blackadder and Mr. bean fame, called for the destruction of a work by Jackson Pollock. There’s really no way to talk about this nine-episode series without spoilers, but knowing that house-sitter Trevor (played by Atkinson)—doing his best impersonation of … Read more
Artistic depiction of NASA’s DART probe and the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube at the Didymos binary system.Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben A NASA spacecraft called DART is set to deliberately crash into a small asteroid as part of a planetary defense test. While this space rock is not of concern, what we learn from the … Read more
(from left) Maya Hawke and Ca Mendes star in Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s From Revenge.photo: Netflix With its inclusion of sassy language and its indictment of progressive culture, From Revenge is a movie for the modern era—but it plays like a love letter to the savage and sweet teen-themed movies of the 1980s, ’90s and early … Read more
Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington are responsible for shaping a new generation of heroes and villains in Netflix’s upcoming film The School For Good And Evil. In the upcoming adaptation of Soman Chainani’s popular book series of the same name, Theron, 47, portrays Lady Lesso, head of the School for Evil while Washington, 45, plays … Read more
All the Disney princessesphoto: Olga Thompson (Walt Disney World Resort via Getty Images) Now that another Disney+ Day has come and gone, we can get on to the meat of Disney’s big weekend: The D23 Expo, where the greatest fans in the world can get a look at the stuff they’ve already seen before but … Read more
The tiring life of a nurse takes a deadly new twist in the first trailer for Netflix’s The Good Nurse, based on a harrowing true story. Jessica Chastain plays the title character, a nurse and a single mom who hears some disturbing rumors about her co-worker Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne), who was dubbed the Angel … Read more