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The 1990s were a very different time — especially in Silver Lake, California — once a fertile neighborhood of artists and musicians and now a pricey hot spot. Three decades ago, the indie music scene was flourishing with homegrown acts like Beck and Rilo Kiley, based around clubs like Spaceland and the Garage. And for […]
“I have this problem,” shares Errol Morris, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker behind “The Thin Blue Line,” “The Fog of War” and countless other renowned docs. You see, the 78-year-old can’t seem to screen Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s docu-phenomenon on Elizabeth Holmes, “You Can See Everything.” He claims to have contacted the appropriate parties but […]
Lebanon's olive harvesters are facing dangerous conditions, with potential attacks and fear of cluster munitions.
Who knew that one of this year’s giddiest celebrations of filmmaking would be a movie where the stunt dummies are obvious, the dinosaur costumes are obviously homemade and you can literally see the strings on special effects shots? That’s the joy of “VelociPastor 2,” the long-awaited sequel to 2017’s “The VelociPastor.” The first film was […]
For writer and director Christian Everhard, “The Crawling” began as a late-night thought experiment. While on vacation with a girlfriend at an isolated cabin, he woke up in the middle of the night, his mind racing. As a horror fan, he started thinking about the scariest worst-case scenario. Could a dangerous local break into the […]
Sudan is suffering from a cost-of-living crisis affecting millions across the country.
Centuries after the end of Islamic rule, some Muslims are choosing Andalusia, drawn by traces of its past.
Residents and analysts doubt October 27 vote will bring any meaningful shift in Israeli policy towards their country.
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for “The Cycle,” now streaming on Shudder. What if a werewolf continued to transform even after its death? This light bulb idea came to frequent collaborators Jordan Downey and Kevin Stewart as they were sketching out a TV treatment for their 2018 film “The Head Hunter.” “We both […]
Campaigners plan mass Halloween action before Supreme Court hearing on challenge to group's 'terrorist' proscription.
Allegations of torture and abuse shadow a Fulani-led vigilante group despite its role in clamping down on kidnappers.
Karachi's last two African elephants remain in captivity. Their sisters are already dead. Will they survive?
Firebrand student leader has become face of the youth protest movement taking on Modi's Hindu majoritarian government.
As Canada’s LNG exports grow, critics raise concerns over human rights abuses linked to major corporate investors.
A family in the South Hebron Hills has spent more than two weeks cut off by settlers camped outside.
When Ariel Baska traded their 15-year career teaching Latin for the film industry, they were instantly faced with a series of unexpected guardrails. “I found that all of these doors were closed to me because I could not literally walk in the front door,” Baska tells Variety. “As someone who is on the deaf-blind spectrum […]
A re-ignition of Yemen's war has left the chronically sick who need treatment trapped in the country.
Diana Reid has more to say about “Sense and Sensibility.” The screenwriter for Georgia Oakley’s 2026 adaptation starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles grew up watching the 1995 version, from screenwriter and star Emma Thompson. When she was initially pitched the idea to create her own interpretation, she wasn’t sure it could be done because […]
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are organising to protect themselves from settler attacks.
It is one of the most notorious social experiments ever conducted, inspiring numerous films, documentaries and psychological studies. In August of 1971, Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited 24 male college students to participate in a study — funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research — about antisocial behavior and the effects of imprisonment. […]
