Before it became a movie that launched Christian Bale into stardom, American Psycho was a critically acclaimed, darkly comedic novel about the poisonous power of the American Dream. That classic Bret ...
Koury Angelo/Bravo; Roy Rochlin/Getty Images; Swig Drinks; Alyssa Powell/BI In 2025, Mormonism was at the center of mainstream popular culture. Reality shows, along with brands like Swig and Crumbl, h...
The future of cinemagoing is top of mind as 2026 kicks off, with Netflix, which is buying Warner Bros. for $72 billion, reportedly interested in a 17-day window for theatrical releases before they hit...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Lewis Horwitz died on December 19 at age 90. ✓ He began his career as a bank teller in Los Angeles in the 1960s. ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ James Ransone died by hanging on Friday at age 46. ✓ He played Chester 'Ziggy' Sobotka in 12 episodes of 'The...
Gwyneth Paltrow says she worked with a coach to unlearn her fear of disappointing people. Dia Dipasupil/WireImage Gwyneth Paltrow says she unlearned her habit of people-pleasing when she turned 40. &#...
2025 proved to be a fairly quiet year for the Star Wars franchise, although it’s hard to sniff at something as great as Andor Season 2. Still, it’s safe to say fans are jonesing for new Star Wars cont...
📋 Key Facts ✓ No Other Choice releases in theaters on Christmas Day with a wide release in January. ✓ The film stars Lee Byung-hun as M...
Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/how-the-marvelization-of-cinema-accelerates-the-decline-of-filmmaking.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438122 Points: 10 # Com...
Now Stranger Things has come to an end, fans are wondering what’s next from the wider Stranger Things universe. Some have speculated that a sequel of sorts could be in the works, one that checks in on...
Article URL: https://mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417752 Points: 15 # Comments: 1...
As well as being the dominant platform in podcasting and having a growing presence in live sport, it is now the leader in TV and streaming in the US...
LG is adding a karaoke-focused party speaker to its lineup of Xboom devices, which is built in collaboration with Will.i.am. Announced this week, LG says the Stage 501 speaker comes with an "AI Karaok...
Matt Winkelmeyer/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images Jimmy Kimmel delivered an "alternative Christmas message" on British TV on Thursday. The talk show host used the opportunity to hit out...
X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported earlier by...
Flappy Bird was almost preposterously simple. If you ever played the game, even once, you surely remember how it worked, but here's a summary just in case. You were a bird. Your job was to fly, left t...
CES serves a few different purposes - to give us the sense of what's to come during the year, to introduce strange devices , and for companies to show off the newest technology. While there wasn't as ...
2026 is here, and comic book fans have a whole year’s worth of exciting new stories to look forward to. Marvel will be ushering in a new era for the X-Men line and building to what looks to be one of ...
The highest scores on IGN’s review scale are 9 for “Amazing” and 10 for “Masterpiece.” This year, only sixteen films received the highest marks from IGN’s roster of critics, and of those, only two fil...
Kate Hudson at the 2026 Palm Springs International Film Festival. Taylor Hill/Getty Images The Palm Springs International Film Festival is being held now through January 13. So far, stars like Miley C...