It’s fitting that Guillaume Nicloux’s L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq) opens with two men sitting around a kitchen table in a Parisian apartment, smoking and wryly...

If you’re reading the second part of this review, then you’ve probably decided to return to Lars von Trier’s circus of cinematic abuse. I’ll leave it to the individual reader to determine whether this latest...

In an age of TV obsessed with fictionalizing the world of D.C. politics, there’s nothing quite like Veep. HBO’s Emmy-winning political satire, created by Armando Iannucci, focuses on the hilarious political ups...

Sometimes you have to give credit where credit is due — if you’re the type of moviegoer whose eyes light up at peepshows advertising the two-headed woman, then the trumped-up title of Lars von Trier’s latest...

Deep in the heart of the southern African nation of Zimbabwe, there is a legend: a box-like object that the minority Lemba people claim can summon lightning, level mountains, and is instantly fatal to all those who...

At the tender age of just nine, Bran Ferren went with his parents to see the famed Pantheon in Rome. In that single experience, he began to understand how art, design and beauty can magnify the power of science and...

When four mop-top English lads stepped onto the tarmac at JFK International Airport in New York on February 7, 1964, America and the world changed forever, only we didn’t know it yet. After the famous Ed Sullivan show...

Stylistically, 300: Rise of an Empire has all the hallmarks of its testosterone-fueled Spartan predecessor: oversaturated, chiaroscuro photography throughout for an out-of-this-world, comic book feel; copious amounts of...

“Kids these days…” I imagine these words are a sort of mantra for Hollywood execs who have no choice but to keep up with the younger generation’s ever quickening step toward new social technologies. The CW, for...

Pedro Pascal is an actor of many faces. The Chilean-born artist’s exotic-looking complexion and passionate demeanor allow him to mold into any role, whether it’s as FBI agent Juan Badillo on USA’s...