Before The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan Almost Made This Brad Pitt Epic

The first feature film shot entirely on IMAX cameras, a costume epic with big-name stars like Matt Damon and Tom Holland, a complex work of classical literature: The Odyssey is obviously the type of movie that only someone like Christopher Nolan could make in 2026. Not only does Nolan have the skill and experience working … Read more

Doctor Who Spinoff Sets UK Airdate, US Fans Will Have to Wait

American Doctor Who fans will have to polish off their spoiler-dodging skills if they want to experience spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea without knowing some of the story’s biggest twists in advance. The five-part series will officially begin airing on BBC One and BBC iPlayer with a two-episode premiere on December … Read more

Pluribus: The One Note Vince Gilligan Had for Rhea Seehorn

Vince Gilligan knows about complicated characters. And he knows how people sometimes misunderstand those characters. Gilligan is, of course, best known for creating Breaking Bad, the hit TV series about a high school chemistry teacher who became a drug lord and, along the way, a hero to thousands of viewers. But the same principles are … Read more

Edgar Wright Explains That Creative Running Man Cameo

This article contains slight spoilers for The Running Man. The 1987 movie The Running Man may be a delightfully weird bit of Arnold Schwarzenegger cheese, but it doesn’t have much to do with the 1982 novel that Stephen King published under the pen name Richard Bachman. For his 2025 adaptation, Edgar Wright has tried to … Read more

How to Return to Emotional Safety, One Sensory Anchor at a Time

“In a sense, we are all time travelers drifting through our memories, returning to the places where we once lived.” ~Vladimir Nabokov I found it by accident, a grainy image of my childhood bedroom wallpaper. It was tucked in the blurry background of a photo in an old family album, a detail I’d never noticed … Read more

Can You Learn a Language Just By Listening? 

The process of learning a new language typically relies on four domains of language… Learning the verb pouvoir (to be able to/can) in French is important because it’s a common French verb that you’ll see and hear in daily conversation and writing. If you can master pouvoir conjugation in French, you’ll be able to talk … Read more

Rob Liefeld Revives Youngblood in the Twilight of His Career 

The career of Rob Liefeld is not unlike a superhero story. From scrappy origins to assembling powerful teams to striking off on his own, the comic book creator’s life is mirrored by the genre of his work. Now, in true superhero form, the artist is back to revive one of his early ventures, Youngblood, during … Read more

The Anne Rice Renaissance Is Moving Beyond Vampires

It’s an amazing time to be an Anne Rice fan. Is this a weird thing to say in the year of our Lord 2025? Maybe. But ever since AMC launched its critically acclaimed Interview with the Vampire series in 2022, we’ve essentially been living in a golden age of Rice adaptations, and it doesn’t seem … Read more