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Waiting for Tolkien

Arts, Culture & Media

Guillermo del Toro was an inspired pick to direct the The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. If anybody can keep Bilbo from getting cute — and keep Gollum genuinely creepy — it’s the director of Pan’s Labyrinth. When del Toro visited Studio 360 last summer, he talked with Kurt about […]

Netflix’s New Release “Tallulah”: Steal This Baby!

Arts, Culture & Media

Howard Fridkin’s Guide to MPAA Ratings

Arts, Culture & Media
A scene from the movie "Okja," featuring the title creature — a humongous pet pig.

A Netflix animal rights movie came at a strange time for South Korea

Culture
A still from "Loving Vincent"

This Van Gogh movie looks like his paintings

Arts
Danny Strong

Danny Strong takes J.D. Salinger to the movies

Arts

How and why Danny Strong made a movie about how and why J.D. Salinger made “The Catcher in the Rye.”

The Godfather Family

Guilty pleasure: ‘The Godfather: Part III’

Arts

One brave critic not only defends, but praises, “The Godfather: Part III”.

The World

The physics behind 2017’s biggest superhero movies

Culture

Could Wonder Woman actually block bullets with her bracelets? Could Thor punch the Hulk without knocking himself over? Professor Rhett Allain turns to physics to find out.

Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay in "Room" (George Kraychyk/A24)

Imagining what it’s like to be born captive in an underground room

Media

Emma Donoghue explores the mind of a child born into captivity in her hit novel “Room,” now a film