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

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

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

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

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

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

The Mayor-elect dabbles in performance art at the Museum of the Moving Image, talking with everyday New Yorkers one on one.

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

The President recently graded the economy as an “A+++++.” He must have been thinking about his own bank account. Plus: ...

Emil Bove violated a basic tenet of judicial ethics, presumably on purpose.