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Telling the full story of the trial of the century isn’t possible without sharing the context of the other trial of the century that preceded it. Prolific TV producers Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan understood that when crafting their acclaimed 2016 FX miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson. While that

Joaquin Phoenix’s Emperor Commodus from the original Gladiator movie remains one of the most memorable depictions of onscreen villainy this century. A portrait of what happens when immense insecurity meets unchecked power—plus a twisted riff on an Oedipal complex by way of his older sister and the father who never

“Be careful who you assemble,” reads the tagline in the first trailer for Thunderbolts. On one hand, the statement tracks with the ramshackle—dare we say “Suicide Squad-esque”—nature of the trailer. The Thunderbolts trailer shows a group of down and out villains and losers, all with red in their ledger and

Waning: contains spoilers for Deep Impact, Moon and Ex Machina. We may be dropping out of the Golden Age of Prestige Television (1999 – 2023, RIP), but while we may mourn the slow decline of mega-budget peak TV, take comfort – there is beauty in lower-budget productions. You might think

To young and struggling actors hopeful to be taken seriously in the world of American theater, John Houseman was as much a god as an instructor in the 1970s. Before he was 40, Houseman helped mount productions in the Federal Theatre Project opposite Orson Welles, co-founded the Mercury Theatre, and