I don’t know about you, but my brain is short-circuiting a bit from the news today, so I was glad to run across this video ...

I posted about the 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai coming out in theaters; here’s the trailer ...

Director Denis Villeneuve steps into the Criterion Closet to choose and talk about a few of his favorite films, including ...

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their ...

I don’t know about you, but my brain is short-circuiting a bit from the news today, so I was glad to run across this video of Benedict Cumberbatch reading Ross Beeley’s letter published by McSweeney’s ...

80 years ago today, the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. An estimated 1.1 million people (Jews, Poles, ...

Oh this is just delightful: for the opening of his documentary film on the history of music on SNL he co-directed with Oz ...

In June 1971, the BBC aired a segment on a “mysterious” and “niche” sports imported from America called ...

Moon Lidar is a visualization of the data collected by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) mission. According to t ...

In later life, Marples was elevated to the peerage before fleeing to Monaco at very short notice to avoid prosecution for tax fraud. Once a runner, always a runner. (thx, dunstan) When you buy through ...

I finished the last half of Shōgun, James Clavell’s 1200-page 1975 historical novel, on my recent vacation, riveted the enti ...

So, a fan put them up on YouTube for X-Files fans to enjoy. The Cold Cases audio drama is 6 episodes and about 4 hours long; ...