2026 is an exciting time to be a fan of The Lord of the Rings, even after the stumble in 2024 that was The War of the Rohirrim. Prime Video is officially bringing back its flagship fantasy series, The ...

The Cockroach Janata Party protests won a great victory. What will be their legacy? Even by his own lofty standards, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been on a high recently. A string of state ...

Halpern, who founded Ecco Press and co-founded the literary magazine Atreus with Paul Bowles in Morocco, finds meaning in memory and detail of the past, such as a long-gone game of catch in the San ...

Taking place in the Scottish capital from 13 to 19 August, this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival boasts a 40-plus feature selection and numerous exciting shorts, alongside hot-ticket ...

Gladiator’ is set around 180 AD and follows Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), a respected military leader who earns the loyalty of his soldiers and Emperor Marcus Aurelius ...

Ross Johnson writes about television, film, and literature for Lifehacker. He has a degree in political science from the University of Rochester and has previously been a legal writer and editor for ...

For a movie about bloodthirsty prehistoric dinosaurs rampaging around a teleported chunk of 1980s American suburbia, there is an admirable display of restraint coursing through The End of Oak Street.

In March, I accompanied an international team of scientists on an expedition to one of the deepest places that humans have ever visited, a few hours outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Before sunrise, ...