She’s trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood—and its audience—can’t seem to crack a smile.

The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected.

Should art be a battleground for social justice?

On growing up, writing, and succumbing to bullshit.

On A Star Is Born and the celebrity industrial complex.

Toward a materialist history of the blockbuster movie.

A profile.

An oral history.

From HBO to ‘Star Wars’ to Shakespeare, he has discovered how to excel beyond tidy genres.

A profile of the director.

A profile of the actress.

The director’s provocative new film will change the way you think about racism

Inside Arnold’s manic, occasionally dishonest quest to find tapes of Trump using slurs on the set of The Apprentice.

Dick Cavett, the “last great intellectual talk-show host,” at 81.

The strange saga of the real-life Simpsons house in Nevada.

Mel Brooks in his 90s.

As the last remaining Blockbusters shut their doors, a portrait of the customers, the staff, and what it was like as they were finally losing each other, after almost 30 years.

She calls claiming to be Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy, or some other powerful woman in entertainment. She knows personal details about her mark as well as the woman she is impersonating.

She offers work, then sends them—photographers, make-up artists, soldiers—around the world to bilk them out of modest amounts of cash.

“I’ve got these boxes of ideas and I’m starting to go through them to see if there’s any gold. “

How a Hollywood icon found himself at a dead end.

“In a landscape in which black people dominate the culture but have few recognized channels to respond to it, the show, which stars two American black men, provides a venue for black authority in the mainstream.”

How the rapper smuggled his radical anticapitalism into his new film Sorry to Bother You.

A profile of the filmmaker.

Studios want to hire kids with genuine depth, but the system in place to protect child actors isn’t equipped if their lives go perilously downhill.

A profile of casting director Nina Gold.