We’ve known for a long time that the emotional content of films and television programs can affect psychological health. It can do this by directly affecting your mood, and your mood can then affect ...

A wave of new social science research shows that the quality of shows can influence us in important ways, shaping our thinking and political preferences, even affecting our cognitive ability. In this ...

Common Side Effects is, to be very forthright, the best work of sociopolitical commentary since Sean Baker's masterpiece Red Rocket — still the defining Trump-era movie — and Jordan Peele's Nope.

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world, millions of people across the globe are still living with the unique ramifications of the virus and the way it transformed daily life. Yet ...