Epics are among the most ambitious and daunting undertakings in cinema, and movies like Ben-Hur and Seven Samurai represent ...

Narco Tanks,” or narco tanques in Spanish, is the media term for the improvised armored vehicles built and used by Mexican drug cartels. Typically converted from SUVs and commercial trucks, these ...

Ridley Scott’s Best Picture-winning triumph Gladiator remains one of the most acclaimed historical epics of all time thanks to its extraordinary battle sequences. With an opening scene that vividly ...

A Dwayne Johnson movie that seems to have been forgotten over time is getting a new lease on life with its arrival on a ...

Art Deco became the defining style of the interwar years. But its bold glamour rested on a questionable patchwork of ...

TIL Quaker Oats Co. fully funded the 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory movie to promote a new line of candy.

While the podcast explores all the way back to Greenwich Plantation in the 1700s, the story of how the ancient Roman statuary ...

TIL Quaker Oats Co. fully funded the 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory movie to promote a new line of candy.

It’s suppertime at Trader Vic’s restaurant in Emeryville. About 30 people are in a backroom, about to try an oyster soup ...

Led by a duo of milquetoast New Yorkers, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the ...

Bali is ruined,” reckoned actor Charlie Chaplin, an early lamenter of overtourism. The year was 1936. Fast-forward, and the ...

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