The Star Wars Economy is Bigger Than You Think
How the franchise changed the way movies make money.
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The Star Wars Economy is Bigger Than You Think
How the franchise changed the way movies make money
Friday A/V Club: The Story of Hitler's England
Something to watch with The Man in the High Castle
Legion of Armed, Upset Citizens Has a 'Surprise' Planned for Quentin Tarantino
Response to criticism of police misconduct is to give more reasons to be afraid.
Police Unions Freak Out Over Quentin Tarantino's Mild Anti-Police Killings Statement
Questioning everything leads to war on cops and more tired old myths.
Friday A/V Club: The Totalitarian Hand
An aging Eastern European animator's protest against Stalinism
You Say You Want a Ukrainian Revolution?
The director of 'Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom' talks with Reason TV.
'Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom' Comes to Netflix
Q&A with documentary director Evgeny Afineevsky
Bugs Bunny vs. Donald Trump on Eminent Domain
Cartoon rabbit, unlike New York developer, understands the 'the sanctity of the American home'
Bernie Sanders Responds to Oregon Shooting: More Gun Control, More Mental Health, Less Violence in Media
Wants less shouting, more good policy.
The Martian author Andy Weir on Mars Colonization, Commercial Space Travel, and Going From Programmer to Best-Selling Author
Q&A with the man who wrote the book behind the upcoming Hollywood film starring Matt Damon.
Are Violent Video Games Digital Poison?
The American Psychological Association thinks so.
R.I.P. Hollywood Horror Master Wes Craven
Director of teen-horror classics "Scream" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" dies at 76.
Friday A/V Club: What Political Advertising Looked Like 75 Years Ago
Look out, world! Here comes Willkie!
Joshua Oppenheimer's 'The Look of Silence' Confronts the Perpetrators of Genocide
An unforgettable documentary looks at the lasting scars of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965.
Friday A/V Club: Anarchists Take Over Film Industry, Make a Revolutionary Children's Musical
One of the odder artifacts of the Spanish Civil War
New Harper Lee Book Has Parents Reconsidering the Wisdom of Naming a Kid 'Atticus'
The Times has scooped The Onion.
Peter Suderman on the Connection Between Hollywood Movie Franchises and the 2016 Election
Welcome to franchise nation.
Friday A/V Club: Awkward Moments with Gov. George Wallace
From Birmingham 1963 to Charleston 2015
Friday A/V Club: Vintage Metric Propaganda to Warm Lincoln Chafee's Heart
Plus an anti-metrification argument from the Whole Earth Catalog's Stewart Brand
Hot Girls Wanted Tries and Fails to Turn Its Porn-Star Subjects Into Victims
Far from being the anti-porn props filmmakers want them to be, the stars of Hot Girls Wanted exhibit a complex, nuanced relationship with their work.
"Things like Silk Road that Help Erode the Horrendous Drug War will Continue to Change Policy on a Big Level." Alex Winter on his New Documentary Deep Web
The documentarian chronicles the rise, fall, and importance of Silk Road.
The Politics of Tomorrowland
The Fountainhead? More like The Open Conspiracy crossed with "The Gernsback Continuum."
Tomorrowland: 'Atlas Shrugged reimagined by Mickey Mouse'
Is director Brad Bird's film an "insidiously political" argument for the value of individual achievement?
