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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

This article contains spoilers for the Game of Thrones finale. Stranger Things’ ending is finally on the horizon. With season 5 over halfway done filming and Netflix attaching a tentative 2025 release window to the series, the legendary sci-fi horror show is getting frighteningly close to concluding its story nearly

Nowadays, if you want to play as Batman in Fortnite, or Cody Rhodes in Call of Duty, you just pay a few bucks and download the skin. It wasn’t always like this, though. Back in the days before online gaming and microtransactions, you’d have to work for secret characters. And

Sometimes stars are “born” in the gauzy Hollywood daydream of the word, with a big-time producer or director played by Warner Baxter grabbing you by the shoulders and promising, “You’re going out there a youngster but coming back a star!” Sometimes though—more often, in fact—it isn’t nearly so glamorous. Sometimes