Talking about the story being told in a movie is almost second nature at this point. We focus on the characters and their journey, and we rarely look at the craft behind bringing that story to life. Promoting her interview with Matt Zoller Seitz, acclaimed director Ava DuVernay pointed out that she is rarely asked

Mike MarslandGetty Images This time last year, Selena Gomez announced she was taking a social media hiatus. Reports would emerge in October that she checked herself into an East Coast facility to seek treatment for her mental health. (Gomez was reportedly hospitalized twice before for an alarmingly low white blood cell, and People was told

Whenever the Trump administration has to pick a side, it consistently chooses to support businesses over the environment. As a result, Trump and his appointees have worked steadily to free corporations as much as possible from having to follow environmental regulations. For the Environmental Protection Agency, that’s meant reversing dozens of restrictions like how much

Andrew Yang is a Democratic candidate for President of the United States, and as such, he’s been traveling around the country to discuss his platform with potential voters. Yang also loves basketball—he says it’s his stress reliever—and hasn’t been shy about releasing footage of shootarounds and pickup games wherever he goes. The race’s foremost universal

It’s been a rough few weeks for The Goldfinch. The film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s 2013 novel from Brooklyn director John Crowley was unveiled at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month and was immediately met with a, let’s say, middling reception. Indiewire’s scathing review said it’s a “gauzy, bloated slab of Oscar bait,”

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau was having a decent week before pictures of him in brown- and blackface makeup started cropping up. He’s in the middle of a re-election campaign and polling numbers that came out on Monday seemed to give him a pretty good edge, according to Politico. But Trudeau has been fighting criticism

At its peak, the Homestead detention center in Miami, Florida held about 3,000 kids inside its fences, making it the nation’s largest for-profit influx shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children. The site, technically a “temporary” shelter that nonetheless housed hundreds of children for months on end, became a symbol of the Trump administration’s failures to address

Every cinematic trip to the darkest depths of outer space is different—whether that’s because of the crew, the mission, or, sometimes, Matt Damon’s inherent goodness. But there’s always one constant, and that’s the Astronaut Money Shot. No director can resist it. You’ve got a beautiful movie star mug, a naturally gleaming filter, and a perfect

How often do you do that kind of workout? When I’m not in a show that’s so demanding, I’ll work out four or five times a week, but with this I really feel like two or three times a week is sufficient. There’s so much volume that happens just doing the show every night. And

The sneaker geniuses at Nike who design LeBron James’s signature shoes pay plenty of attention to cushioning. There aren’t many NBA players, after all, with the King’s combination of size, speed, and grace—and there probably isn’t a single basketball player, non-Shaq division, who puts his shoes through as much. The Nike LeBron 17, announced on