‘Megadoc’ is a window into Francis Ford Coppola at work, on his own dime, pursuing art

Not quite a skeleton key to understanding Coppola's ambitious, self-financed 'Megalopolis,' Mike Figgis' chronicle of its ...

Critic’s Notebook: Film’s Failure to Capture Online Life Has Never Been More Glaring

Current events continue to remind us that millions of young people are living much of their lives online. More movies should ...
Livewire Markets

Massive step-change underway for gold

Initially focusing on the global Over the Counter (OTC) market, which is the 400oz (~12.5kgs) Good Delivery Bar Market [1], ...

South Dakota lacks incentives that could lead to movies set there to be filmed there

Last month, 1,100 theaters across the country showed a movie ostensibly set in rural South Dakota. The film, ''Americana,'' features Sydney Sweeney as a small-town diner waitress on the hunt for a ...
Stephen Follows

Are directors who went to film school more successful than those who didn’t?

Studying 1,417 directing credits over the past 25 years reveals if there's a link between film school and success. Plus which film school has the most successful graduates - USC, CalArts, or Tisch?
KING5

‘This should have been prevented’: Leaders respond to state slashing ICE database access after KING 5 investigation

SEATTLE — A KING 5 investigation prompted the state of Washington on Tuesday to admit they unwittingly allowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hunt down and deport undocumented residents ...
The New York Times

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...
GamesRadar+

Beautiful city-builder Town to City sets its early access release date, and it's very soon

City Builder Games Anno 117: Pax Romana demo confirmed, giving you an early slice of "the premier builder game of 2025" Strategy Games DarkSwitch is an eldritch survival city builder where you hold ...