‘What people accused Oppenheimer of doing’: the untold story of spy Ted Hall | Documentary films

Ted Hall and Joan Hall

Nearly 70 years after it rattled the New Mexico desert, the Trinity Test is top of mind for many this summer. Thanks to Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film on the leader of the Manhattan […]

New The Marvels Trailer Makes It Look Like One of the Good Films

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The post-Endgame Marvel Cinematic Universe may be struggling to find its feet and audience, but Marvel seems to be coming out swinging with its next film effort, The Marvels. The new, official The Marvels trailer just […]

‘Nobody really knew what happened’: tracing the life of Syd Barrett | Documentary films

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In rock star portraiture, it behooves a writer to avoid straightforward presentation of cliche. The story of a troubled virtuoso tormented by their own genius, turning to drink and drugs, then flaming out before their […]

The Actors’ Strike Won’t Stop These Films and TV Shows From Shooting – Rolling Stone

The Actors’ Strike Won’t Stop These Films and TV Shows From Shooting – Rolling Stone

As the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced a strike last week, joining the Writers Guild of America’s monthslong efforts to cease production work in order to negotiate […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger Says The ‘Terminator’ Films, About The Dangers Of AI, Have ‘Become A Reality’

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Tri-Star Pictures There’s an entire subsect of sci-fi that’s long warned of computers gaining sentience and battling — and sometimes crushing — humanity. Dune? Frank Herbert’s books take place centuries after humanity crushed their robotic […]

Is it time for America to adopt a new national anthem? | Documentary films

Kris Bowers and DJ Dahi

Only in America is the most influential songwriter a slave-owning trial lawyer with exactly one hit. Worse, Francis Scott Key stole the melody from a British pub hymn that had been lingering in the 19th-century […]

‘People thought they knew the story’: the rise and fall of Milli Vanilli | Documentary films

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You could argue that, at least in the realm of pop music, the year 1989 belonged to Milli Vanilli. The German-French pop duo, formed barely a year earlier by the German producer Frank Farian, had […]