Hailey Benton Gates, the director of the “military-industrial-complex romantic comedy” “Atropia,” recommends a few books that ...

This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our ...

In James Cameron’s latest 3-D science-fiction extravaganza, the Na’vi family tree gets more complicated, but our sense of ...

The director’s great achievement was placing real people, with real senses of humor, into the fantasies of mass culture.

A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.

From there, the graphic novel zooms out and back in time. It’s structured cinematically, with voice-over, pans, and quick ...

From the daily newsletter: celebrating the milestone birthday of one of the magazine’s most lucid profile writers.

On a weekend of terrible violent events, you would not expect a President of the United States to make matters even worse.

From the daily newsletter: a reflection on the timelessness of the novelist on her two-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday today.

Lifelike food replicas have long been a fixture of Japanese dining culture. Now, in an exhibition at Japan House, they are ...

In a year when the entertainment industry embraced the artificial, extraordinary human acts—from Sarah Snook’s one-woman ...

You may get up to use the restroom, but only between sides. During songs, please remain still. Any movement above shoulder ...