Category: 5. Entertainment

Editor’s note: This story is the third edition of Link Rot, a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet.

Complaints about the use of generative AI in creative fields…

American actor and playwright Colman Domingo has been cast as the Cowardly Lion in the upcoming Wicked: For Good film, putting to rest a weekend of internet speculation on who would play the role.

The announcement was made by the film’s official…

In April 2019, I was ambitious, burnt out, and heartbroken, so I took on a temporary assignment in Singapore with my employer, a large tech-based retailer. In the first few weeks, I was pleasantly distracted by the…

[This story contains spoilers for The Conjuring: Last Rites.]

Billed as the “fourth-and-final” film in The Conjuring series, Last Rites has grossed a franchise record of nearly $500 million at the worldwide box office. That puts…

In the aftermath of his breakout performance as Bishop in the film Juice, a young Tupac Shakur was plucked by director John Singleton to star as a postman named Lucky in Poetic Justice. The movie shot over a three-month span in California, and…

With their bladed paws, wielded by a rippling mass of pure muscle, sharp eyes, agile reflexes, and crushing fanged jaws, lions are certainly not a predator most animals have any interest in messing with. Especially seeing as they also have…

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the inaugural FocusFest this past Saturday on the iconic Universal Studios lot!

We had the best time celebrating the Focus Features slate with immersive activations, exclusive merch, and screenings of The…

October brings so many favorable things to New York City: small dogs in cable-knit sweaters, satisfyingly crunchy leaves underfoot, and the beloved Art in Odd Places (AiOP) festival along East 14th Street….

Noah Hawley’s new FX series Alien: Earth doesn’t waste time pretending it’s just about xenomorphs. The monsters are there — acid blood, drooling menace, all that good stuff — but the real…