It’s not at all uncommon for a movie to feature the name of a character in its title. Usually, this directly communicates the importance of that particular character to the plot. When a story is ...
Three major nuclear reactor accidents—Three Mile Island (1979 in the United States), Chernobyl (1986 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union), and Fukushima Dai-ichi (2011 in Japan)—significantly ...
The fifth episode of It: Welcome to Derry is jam-packed with new information, and the show's clearest look at Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise yet. Still, with so much baked into one episode, one of the ...
Mrs. Glick, we hardly knew ye. In its latest episode, "The Simpsons" wasted no time before killing off an established character who was introduced to the show before many of its modern viewers were ...
It’s the one-two punch of an earthquake and a piece of scrumptious white chocolate from Belgium, a country famous for its sweet confections, that awakens 2½-year-old Amélie (voiced by Loïse ...
Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb’s recollections about spending her early years in Japan inspired her 2000 novel, “The Character of Rain,” the basis for a lovely and touching French-language animated ...
Directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han adapt Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb's bestselling autobiographical novel, which follows a 2-year-old girl growing up in Japan in the 1960s. By Jordan Mintzer ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
Hands up if you correctly guessed the reference Taylor Swift is making on the cover of her new album, The Life of a Showgirl. “Thank you for appreciating that the album cover is a reference to the ...
Brian De Palma recently turned 85, but even when he was younger, even when he was briefly a go-to buy for making big-budget, big-star studio thrillers, the man had a retro sensibility. This doesn’t ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In fact, the Tin Man’s only line in the trailer is to ask an off-screen character: “What have you ...
In "The Lowdown," Ethan Hawke plays Lee Raybon, a writer whose latest exposé on the powerful Washberg family is followed by the mysterious "suicide" of one of the family members. Lee thinks ...