Late political activist Assata Shakur is the subject of a documentary and scripted project by sister-brother filmmakers Giselle and Stephen Bailey.

Macabre songs about murder, specters, and other morbidities are par for the course for country music, but Leon Payne’s bone-chilling country song from the mid-1970s takes this tradition to a whole new ...

It's a portrait of the '70s folk-rock star, and of "Cat's in the Cradle," the tune that turned daddy issues into mythology.

When the winless, anthropomorphic salmon wearing an orange life vest and yellow floaties crossed the finish line, 47,000 souls erupted in a celebration so thunderous that the rumbling was classified ...

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From a WWIII torture chamber — to a viral haunted house with no end(?) in sight — these nightmares belong on the big screen. If you’re watching a scary movie and things get too intense, you’ve got ...

Netflix’s new series Boots, released on Oct. 9, is a coming-of-age dramedy that takes viewers back to the 1990s U.S. Marine Corps — a time when being gay in the military was still illegal and “Don’t ...

“Folks have taken your story and twisted it. Used it for their own devices. Added things that weren’t real. Taken out things that were horrible. So I think you ought to think about telling your own ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In 2018, a letter landed on Robert ...

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...

Based on the 2004 docuseries of the same name, The Staircase follows the bizarre case of author and father Michael Peterson (played by Colin Firth), who is accused of murdering his wife Kathleen (Toni ...

Plenty of films are based on surprising true stories—but few are quite as unbelievable as the actual crime saga that inspired Roofman. The new film stars Channing Tatum as Jeffrey Manchester, a ...