Like witches, vampires, and zombies, ghosts can be scary as hell. But there is something about the stories of lingering dead spirits that can be both awe-inspiring and spooky at once. The often ...

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In a glass-fronted cabinet in the meeting room of one of the most ordinary office buildings you could care to imagine, a toad is looking back at me. It’s a toad I know very well. When I was a boy, I’d ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 819 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical ...

wed some innovative, 21st-century animation to a centuries-old story about life, death, and devotion. More than 10 years in the making, the breathtaking film began filming during one of the busiest ...

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In Michael Almereyda’s funny, ardent and moving vampire picture, “Nadja,” the title character, a downtown-Manhattan descendant of Count Dracula’s, sums up the exquisite suffering of her lot: “Life is ...