True Story Behind ‘Smoke’ on Apple TV+
The South Pasadena, Calif., hardware store thrummed with the usual rhythms of a Wednesday night: customers browsing shelves, cash registers chiming, the low hum of...
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The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück’s Story of Resistance
A new book aims to preserve the stories of the prisoners at an all-female Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, who resisted their captors as...
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The Chilling True Story Behind HBO’s ‘The Mortician’
HBO’s The Mortician, a documentary series premiering June 1, examines the startling true story of a cremator who went to prison for mishandling human remains....
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‘Bring Her Back’ Ending, Explained
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Bring Her Back. The message of Bring Her Back may be that grief is the real monster. But desperate...
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Here’s What’s New on Netflix in June 2025
Netflix may be releasing a series about famous trainwrecks starting June 10, but its June 2025 lineup overall is on track to be a crowd-pleaser....
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The Real Life Tech Execs That Inspired ‘Mountainhead’
Jesse Armstrong loves to pull fictional stories out of reality. His universally acclaimed TV show Succession, for instance, was inspired by real-life media dynasties like...
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How ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Ends After Six Seasons
Warning: Spoilers ahead for the series finale of The Handmaid’s Tale It’s hard to believe it, but one of television’s most eerily prescient and challenging...
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The True Story Behind Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders
It’s been more than four decades since seven people died after ingesting cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules in 1982 in the Chicago area, and still nobody knows...
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The Story Behind Netflix’s ‘Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds’
On May 23, a documentary about elite Air Force pilots will take flight. Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds on Netflix profiles some of the most skilled...
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The 12 Best Movies of Cannes 2025
Of the roughly 35 films I saw across 10 days, here are the standouts of Cannes 2025. In terms of the competition films, at least,...
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Why the Lilo & Stitch Remake Has Sparked Controversy
Months before hitting theaters, the kids movie Lilo & Stitch, about an alien that winds up living with a Hawaiian family, has generated countless negative...
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Review: Die, My Love Is Jennifer Lawrence’s Best Performance
In an early scene in Lynne Ramsay’s brutal, beautiful Die, My Love, we see Jennifer Lawrence crawling through a sunny, grassy field on all fours,...