Friday, January 16, 2026

Movies

Latest

Warner Bros. was one of five studios that joined forces with Wall Street investors to gobble up independent theaters and movie producers in the 1920s. Nextrecord Archives/Getty Images

Movies

Whether Netflix or Paramount buys Warner Bros., entertainment oligopolies are back – bigger and more anticompetitive than ever

Staff Writer - December 13, 2025

Netflix’s Hollywood studio offices at Sunset Bronson Studios in Los Angeles. Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images

Movies

Netflix-Warner deal would drive streaming market further down the road of ‘Big 3’ domination

Chinese food has become a staple of many Jewish Americans’ traditions each Dec. 25. Christina Horsten/picture alliance via Getty Images

Movies

Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews

In ‘Resident Evil,’ the Red Queen is efficient and logical, but also indifferent to human life. Constantin Film

Movies

4 films that show how humans can fortify – or botch – their relationship with AI

Hulu’s comedy-drama series ‘Ramy,’ created by actor-comedian Ramy Youssef, follows a young Egyptian-American Muslim navigating life’s challenges. Youssef, center, appears at a press conference in 2019. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

Movies

Muslim men have often been portrayed as ‘terrorists’ or ‘fanatics’ on TV shows, but Muslim-led storytelling is trying to change that narrative

Movies

Poised to make its next big move, Netflix isn’t in the...

Staff Writer - May 2, 2016

Movies

A force awakened: why so many find meaning in Star Wars

Staff Writer - December 25, 2015

Movies

Sinatra’s films shattered the postwar myth of the white American male

Staff Writer - December 11, 2015

Movies

How music became so core to James Bond that someone bet...

Staff Writer - August 7, 2015

Movies

Does Pixar’s Inside Out show how memory actually works?

Staff Writer - June 26, 2015

Movies

Will more dead actors be coming to a theater near you?

Staff Writer - May 2, 2015

Movies

Girls on fire: political empowerment in young adult dystopia

Staff Writer - March 26, 2015

Movies

Whiplash is a horror film – so jazz critics should stop...

Staff Writer - March 15, 2015

1 234 5 Page 3 of 5

EXPLORING NATURE

Solar power has been expanding quickly, but natural gas is also booming. Gerard Julien/AFP via Getty Images

Business

The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...

Staff Writer - January 6, 2026

Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...

Why did this community burn one woman’s remains in such a visible, spectacular way? Patrick Fahey

Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...

January 3, 2026

Eaton fire survivors gather in Altadena, Calif., to talk about recovery six months after the LA fires. Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images

LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety –...

December 31, 2025

U.S. researchers are seeking the light at the end of a rough year for science. Westend61/Getty Images

‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers...

December 31, 2025

Modern winter jackets use a few time-honored physics principles to keep you warm. Magda Indigo/Moment via Getty Images

New materials, old physics – the science behind how your winter...

December 27, 2025