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Trump’s Input in Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks May Put Kyiv on New Timetable
President-elect Donald J. Trump may accelerate the timetable for a truce. Kyiv views guarantees against renewed aggression as crucial to any settlement.
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Israeli Court Rejects Netanyahu’s Bid to Delay Corruption Trial Testimony
The court ruled that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must take the stand on Dec. 2 in a trial that has stretched out for more than four years.
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With Pebbles and Soap, Jesse Krimes Takes on the Prison System
The artist’s works are the subject of two New York shows, at the Metropolitan Museum and the Jack Shainman Gallery.
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One City, Three Great Artists: Reuniting Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael
A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.
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“She Just Had an Accident”: “Seed of Chucky” at 20
“That’s the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life!” a little girl (Bethany Simons-Denville) exclaims. She shouts it at the audience, who, in “Seed of Chucky“‘s first-person opening scene, takes a queer kid’s point-of-view. As she throws them into a toy chest, it’s like we fall into a closet. The kid comes out…
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Return to the World of “Horizon” with Two New Releases
Sony has struggled lately to develop new IPs. Almost everyone loves “Astro Bot,” but it says something about the current state of the industry that they’re digging into the recent catalog to try and satisfy an existing fan base this holiday season instead of bringing gamers to a new universe to explore. And what’s especially…
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Prime Video’s “Cross” Adaptation is Killer
A good adaptation is multi-dimensional. It requires a convergence of factors that causes audiences to nod in satisfaction. In “Cross,” the upcoming series based on the Alex Cross novels by James Patterson, the leading man, source material, and setting form a conspiracy–one that draws us into the shadowy spaces of both serial killers and the…
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Apocalypse Then: Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
“Godzilla Minus One” was already one of the best Godzilla movies, for the way it used the kaiju movie template to tell a story that was essentially a sweeping melodrama about surviving wars and other catastrophes. The announcement that it was going to be released in a black-and-white version was tantalizing, and the result is…
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November Patch Tuesday loads up everyone’s plate
Fourteen product families affected as 2024 passes an unfortunate milestone
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Pythons Have Surprising Social Lives
Ball pythons were long assumed to be solitary, but scientists discovered the snakes in captivity prefer each others’ company when given the chance to live socially.