In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, ...

Full-cast Harry Potter audiobooks with effects, music, and 200+ voice actors bring the books to life. A star-studded cast blends big names (Hugh Laurie, Riz Ahmed, Keira Knightley) with rising child ...

This Christmas special, we talk about what December actually looked like growing up—snow in Shimla, winter holidays shaped by Narnia marathons, and the long years of believing in Santa before the ...

A husband and wife have been jailed for the “relentless abuse” of their children. The man, aged in his 50s, and the woman, ...

Secret Santa gift exchanges can be chaotic in the best way. One minute you’re drawing a name from a hat, the next you’re scrambling to figure out what they’d actually like. The trick is finding ...

The 2002 anthem was featured in the HBO Max-Crave show’s fourth episode, whose source material also saw a massive audiobook streaming bump on the platform.

The defendants - a man in his fifties and woman in her forties - changed their pleas to guilty shortly after their trial ...

One last update to the calls function in WhatsApp is that on video calls, whoever is speaking is now highlighted - à la Zoom - to help everyone follow along.

A casual disregard for human life contrasts with a colorful, hard-partyin’ atmosphere of 1977 Carnaval in Brazil in “The Secret Agent,” director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s momentous epic, a mercurial ...

If you've spent any time in a dictatorship — I've had that happy experience — you understand why your high school teachers were always praising democracy. You quickly learn that authoritarian states ...

It was an inchoate pursuit of aural splendor that pushed David (Dave) Wilson in 1974 to forge his company, the globally renowned Wilson Audio Specialties Inc., with a simple philosophy: to build ...

Wagner Moura takes cover in this knockout from the filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho that is largely set in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...