In 1969, the Children’s Television Workshop made a twenty-six-minute pitch reel to line up stations to air a radically new program that appeared to have, as yet, no title. Instead, a team of fleece- ...
It was mid-October, peak leaf-peeping season in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Chad Markey was on a rare break between clinical rotations during his last year of medical school. He should have been ...
It’s finally 2025, and for Nintendo fans that means one thing: the long-awaited release of the Switch 2. And hey, it’s pretty cool. It’s not time to toss out the original Switch yet, though.
That dystopian movies have become a genre all their own speaks to our fears of the future. As oppressive regimes across the globe turn to technology to control their populaces—and we see our own ...
In July of 2020, a little less than six months after COVID-19 sent much of the world into lockdown, I reviewed three newly released books about the coronavirus pandemic for this magazine. Six months ...
For more than 100 years, movies have captured audiences' imagination and wonder, depicting true love, daring adventures, terrifying chills and gut-busting laughs. One could say it's a fool's errand to ...
Despite current management’s mistreatment of the Looney Tunes, people love these characters. Take, for example, the recent Foghorn Leghorn meme that’s spreading like wildfire over the X social media ...
The Walt Disney Company started exactly 100 years ago on this date as the Disney Brothers Studio. While there are plenty of more conventional celebrations happening, we thought it would be fun to walk ...
While sketch comedy is almost always part of the cultural conversation thanks to the near-constant presence of Saturday Night Live, it’s been particularly relevant lately with the recent release of I ...
For the second instalment of our new NME Screens series, we’re hosting an advance screening of Dungeon & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, the brand new action-adventure movie starring Chris Pine and ...
The movies are now more than 100 years old. That still makes them a young medium, at least in art-form years (how old is the novel? the theater? the painting?). But they’re just old enough to make ...