'They said we destroyed the franchise': How Heath Ledger Joker backlash helped Jonathan Nolan block noise for Fallout

Jonathan Nolan talks to HT about Fallout season 2, taking lessons in feedback after The Dark Knight, and The Last of Us.

“Am I Insane? What Am I Doing?”: Nia DaCosta, Marc Platt and the Producers Roundtable

David Heyman, Joseph Kosinski, Sara Murphy and Sev Ohanian open up about the current moment in moviemaking, the state of the ...

Why ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ Went to Extreme Lengths to Make You Like Its New Killer Santa

Mike P. Nelson tells IndieWire how everything from Pixar to "Frailty" influenced his new slasher for Cineverse.

‘Hacks’ and ‘Morning Show’ Casting Directors on How New Faces Were ‘Integrated Seamlessly’ Into Established Casts

Influencer Jake Shane was presented to the “Hacks” team ahead of Season 4. Known for his comedic TikTok videos, he first ...

How the New ‘Tomb Raider’ Games Want to Unite Lara’s Past and Future

What's next for Lara Croft? Not just a new show, but also a pair of 'Tomb Raider' games that look back and forward on the ...

'Stranger Things' Is Great, but This Netflix Original Series Became the Streamer's Sleeper Hit This Year

Tina Fey's Netflix series The Four Seasons, starring Steve Carell, Will Forte, and Colman Domingo, wasn't expected to have a ...

Game development diary: Sound, music, and schedule speed bumps

After wrestling with Welsh for my iPhone game "Character Limit," there were two changes of pace in the last month. Both in ...

The Best PC Games (You Should Be Playing)

One of last year's standout gaming stories was the rise of indie hits, proving that while game dev budgets balloon, spectacle ...
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Memory Speaks in “Marjorie Prime” and “Anna Christie”

June Squibb sparkles opposite Cynthia Nixon in a futuristic drama, and Michelle Williams loses her way in Eugene O’Neill’s ...

15 Star Trek Episodes That Have Aged Poorly

As is often the case with franchises that have been around for decades, Star Trek has had its share of episodes that make modern viewers do a double-take.

Every Street Fighter Movie Character Reveal Ranked (& Compared To The Originals)

We're ranking every Street Fighter movie character reveal and how they compare to the original versions from the video games ...

The 10 best movies of the year and where to watch them

LOS ANGELES — A funny thing about this year’s best films: Half of them are adaptations. As a movie lover who’s always hunting for new talent, new ideas and new stimuli, I used to view that as creative ...