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David S. Goyer explains how paying attention to mystery, and not brushing it aside, became the foundation for the way he builds stories, characters, and worlds.
In this excerpt from "Tales of Militant Chemistry," Alice Lovejoy exposes how the need for uranium during WWII led the Allied governments to turn a blind eye to colonial exploitation.
The latest "Superman" film sets Metropolis in the First State.
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“You might as well go for it. You might as well do the thing that you dream about doing for heaven's sake.”
The "Doctor Strange" director says mystery shifts your worldview — "not in a metaphorical sense, but in a deeply experiential one."
Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.
Many beloved fantasy adventures take place in worlds that bear a striking resemblance to our own.
"No matter how long you’ve been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you’ve never done it before."
Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, "precrastination," and Westeros lore.
Freethink asks three different kinds of experts to answer this question.
“Dune: Part One” screenwriter Eric Roth spoke with Big Think about the challenges of bringing Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic to the big screen.
Napoleon Bonaparte was a man of many faces. European historian Michael Broers explains which are featured on the silver screen and why.
Gladiators fought in rounds, and there were referees to enforce rules. Only rarely were gladiators killed.
"Time Warp" all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.
The toilet “is a portal to a mysterious otherworld.”
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
When done right, dark humor can help us face inconvenient truths and question stifling social conventions.
AI helped create films like "Jurassic Park" and "A.I.", so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn't worry about losing their jobs.
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
If comedies do get made today, they usually bypass the big screen and go straight to streaming platforms.
For decades, cinemas have earned more from concessions than ticket sales. But can their current business model survive in the streaming age?
Million Stories
Today’s scary clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.
Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.
In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn't mean CGI is always used to good effect.
Time for a status check before watching "Moon Knight."
While there is more to North Korean cinema than meets the eye, the country’s film industry ultimately amounts to little more than a mouthpiece for the ruling Kim dynasty.
What value does wit hold in genres defined by brute strength?