This may be the age of CGI, but Wednesday director Tim Burton was clear. He wanted a flesh and blood actor to play classic Addams family character Thing in the hit Netflix series. Even if Thing is only a disembodied hand. “So we set out to fin…
Need some new dance moves? Watch Wednesday, Tim Burton’s new Addams Family spinoff, and take notes.It’s becoming a trend.
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Add Lady Gaga to the ranks of TikTokers doing the funky viral dance inspired by Wednesday Addams in the mega-hit Netflix series Wednesday. Jenna Ortega as Wednesday, doing the moves that started it all.
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Now that you’re done watching Wednesday, Tim Burton’s Addams Family spinoff on Netflix, you might find yourself missing Wednesday Addams and the rest of her eccentric clan. Fortunately, there’s plenty of Addams Family fodder to tide you over until s…
Why does anyone kill anyone? Fictional detective Atticus Pünd poses that question in the intriguing British mystery series Magpie Murders before answering it based on his own crime-solving experience as star of a blockbuster line of mystery bo…
Last month, I traveled to ancient Egypt. It was an easy trip — no COVID tests, airport security lines or weather delays. I just climbed into a cinematic motion chair, strapped on a high-resolution VR headset and got swept into Queen Nefertari’s lav…
The ongoing war in Ukraine has made it difficult, and in many cases dangerous, to experience the country’s abundant cultural offerings. Museums, historical buildings, monuments, religious sites and libraries have been destroyed or damaged. …
You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated entirely by AI to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you’re looking at. Not so with the images in The Bestiary…
At the beginning of the dark, enthralling Netflix thriller The Stranger, the words “based on a true story” flash on the screen. By the end of the movie, viewers will likely want to know more about that real-life tale and how closely the film reflect…
Hawkins, Indiana, may be home to murderous monsters, but it’s way less threatening when you toss in campy musical numbers and silly wigs. You get plenty of both in Stranger Sings: The Parody Musical, which bills itself as a “hilarious ‘upside d…
You’ve put in long hours studying for your college midterms and don’t want anyone copying your answers. What do you do? You toggle together a wacky anti-cheating helmet that blocks your peers from seeing your test, of course.
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Living in Kyiv, Ukraine, during wartime, Valerii Veduta has become accustomed to the daily sounds of airstrike alerts and the sight of tanks and rocket launchers. The artist, however, has what he calls his own “weapon of choice”: photography. Sinc…
The thumbs-up emoji has long been one of my to-go responses. It’s simple. It’s versatile. It’s friendly. Or so I thought until a Daily Mail headline jolted me out of my emoji-happy stupor this week. “Why NOBODY should be using the ‘thumbs up’ emoji …
Been following the whole Try Guys situation with Ned Fulmer? So have Saturday Night Live writers, who apparently think the drama that’s befallen the popular YouTube prankster group and their former fellow member has crossed into melodrama terri…
When British underwater-photographer Zena Holloway came across the tangled roots of a willow tree in a local river a few years back, a fashionable idea took hold. What if she could grow roots into organic, compostable clothing? Fast-forward to…