You’d be excused for being suspicious of these concoctions. Poured into clear-glass one-gallon jars of unregulated ...

As studio heads like Bob Iger attempt to reassure anxious investors, he and so many others in the industry are confronting ...

Critics and general audiences alike often view these films as over-the-top spectacles lacking meaningful storytelling. The action-packed focus of these films obviously detracts from narrative content; ...

The Toei-produced, female-driven, action/exploitation films known as “Pinky Violence” reached their crescendo in the late 1970s – and are almost single-handedly responsible for the first wave of ...

Filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu once said: “Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.” The precious images and storylines that are cleverly woven together to present a feast for the ...

Even so, there’s some evidence that light therapy may have a similar effect on the brain to many antidepressants. In a study published in 2016, 11 patients with SAD treated with two weeks of light ...

In the 1936 screwball comedy mystery The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Dr. Lawrence Bradford (William Powell) asks his ex-wife, the rich mystery writer Paula (Jean Arthur), “What is a cocktail dress?” She replies ...

We know that the choice of language and framing in reporting on these scandals reveal underlying societal prejudices. And, importantly, the media's portrayal of sex scandals not only reflects societal ...

This new Caligula, re-edited by Thomas Negovan using 96 hours of recently discovered footage, remains a bizarre mix of pretension, melodrama, historic liberties and pornography, punctuated by ...

Images have long provided a means of protesting political regimes bent on censoring language. In the 1830s a band of French caricaturists, led by Charles Philipon, weaponized the innocent image of a ...

This article by David Robson was originally published in Mosaic Science. It’s republished here with permission under a Creative Commons license. General anesthesia is supposed to make surgery painless ...

One of the most visible manifestations of this shift can be seen in her evolving personal style. Gone are the days of cornrows, durags, and form-fitting bodysuits that seemed to pay homage to the ...