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Of all of Hollywood’s beloved classic films, the Warner Bros. studio’s heart-rending wartime hit Casablanca might rank first in the hearts and minds of fans.

Discover why movies fake rain, blood, explosions, speed, eye lights and more, plus the filmmaking tricks that make reality look right on camera.

From A Trip to the Moon to Godzilla, these ten films showcase the evolution and impact of sci-fi cinema throughout the decades.

Everyone remembers the white bikini. Here's the real story of how Ursula Andress felt about nudity, and the one thing about fame she couldn't shake.
In 1952, Audrey Hepburn arrived in Rome as a relative unknown to film 'Roman Holiday,' setting in motion a career that would make her an icon.

Neuroscience is revealing how our brains are wired for narrative
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Inside her battles with the staff and her attempts to overhaul the show.

There is a hidden track baked into almost every blockbuster, a frozen eight-dollar toll, and a company the market still calls a shaky-chair vendor.

Not every 46-year-old comedy still gets laughs, but Airplane! seems only to get funnier with the decades.

Linguists explain how a language built from musical notes could convey complex meaning and even support conversation

Noisey selects four of the greatest hip-hop movie soundtracks of the 90s, arguably the golden age for Black cinema and rap alike.
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How a home shopping channel became the soundtrack to a friendship.
QVC’s innovation, as well as its biggest challenge, was to make its advertisements seem less like corporate directives and more like recommendations from friends or peers.
Today’s Instagram influencers talk about how and when they use certain products in the same relatable way

During the mid-'90s to the early 2000s, all my friends knew that you couldn't disturb me on Thursday nights because I was glued to my television set, watching The X-Files. I was so absorbed in the series' mythology, the strange cases of the week, and all things alien during…

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking

These two half-hour classics of stop-motion pack in nods to more earnest cinema but are never distracted from producing pristinely beguiling family entertainment
We've featured Ghanian movie posters a few times here at Neatorama. They are hand painted, have little to do with the movie, and are often quite lurid. There were born from a homegrown business of showing films in villages that had no electricity and hiring local artists to…
Nic C is a musician who samples music from classic television programs. He takes short slices--just a few notes each--of these famous songs and uses them to compose new music that is simulatenously original and familiar.If you're a fellow Gen Xer, you'll appreciate Nic C's…

The creator of "Rooster," "Scrubs" and "Shrinking" did not expect to have a career renaissance in his late 50s
How the calculus of ’80s television programming lives on into the present day—and why the Disney Channel always seems to cancel shows after 65 episodes.

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This is a great Old Skool Hooligans movie sketch tribute to the Holy Grail shubbery worriers. 100% unofficial. Loads more cult movie inspired t shirts in our other listings.

Once America's most promising movie theater chain, the Alamo Drafthouse has become a QR-coded symbol of corporate enshittification.

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One of television’s most important business models, first-run syndication to local TV stations looking to fill airtime, might be losing strea … er, steam.

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With "The Silence of the Lambs" hitting theaters, Orion wanted a hit. They didn't anticipate an antihero.

Humanity was already enjoying motion pictures a century ago. But the ability to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the ability to pull up a movie on demand through a streaming service much further still.

Once again, John le Carré is back. The TV series inspired by his post-Cold War novel, The Night Manager, is returning to our screens on New Year’s Day. There’s an exhibition about his “tradecraft” on
You’ve probably seen this famous graph that breaks out various categories of inflation, showing labor-intensive services getting more expensive during the 21st century and manufactured goods getting less expensive.

Variety breaks down the best TV shows of all time. From The Sopranos to Community, these are the best series ever aired.

The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?

Delroy Lindo already deserved an Oscar nomination. He might finally get one for his role as Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's Sinners.

Digiday charted how YouTube is a threat to Netflix, including watch time dominance, user base and its ability to reshape viewing behaviors.

I finally got around to watching Casablanca this year. I’m a little embarrassed it took this long. I think the delay was due to the fact that I already thought I’d seen it, on account of seeing clips of it so often. It’s part of the ether of pop culture. I knew all the famous […]
Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.

New films, and classics, just keep coming, but you don’t have to drill down to find the finest selections to stream. We’ll do the heavy lifting. You press play.

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, the loose Thomas Pynchon adaptation One Battle After Another, serves up many a memorable scene.

Netflix uses a process called AVA (aesthetic visual analysis) to create thumbnails straight from its content, then decide which thumbnails will work best for which customers.
This principle describes how likely an object, ad, or image is to stir our emotions.

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Cord reviving isn’t common but points to discontent with today’s streaming options.

The Lego Ideas team, including its senior model designer, tells Fast Company how they turned 'Gremlins' icon Gizmo into a 1,125-piece set.
And yet, Terai is responsible for one of Lego’s best sets of the year: Gizmo, the iconic creature from Joe Dante’s 1984 classic Gremlins.
Building a Lego set is an exhaustive process that marries creativity and technical precision.