Dan Lybarger

Who needs dating apps or AI companions when your ideal mate could be the work of a basket maker?

I thoroughly enjoyed British Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro's "Klara and the Sun" when the world was emerging from COVID in 2021. As I took my isolated walks, the unabridged audiobook proved to be a welcome companion because it was entertaining and seemed to capture much of the absurdity that was happening at the time.

Aaron Sorkin returns to the well with “The Social Reckoning,” but the tech lord, now played by Jeremy Strong, is worth multiple billions and runs a company bigger than most countries.

Aardman movies may depend on facial expressions and groans to compensate for the almost nonexistent dialogue, but there are lots of tiny details that require viewers to stay alert.

Has the show contributed to the popularity of soccer in the States?

The new movie “Pressure” recounts how D-Day made Gen. Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower a household name.

Crawford on the set of Mildred Pierce. // Courtesy Alan Rode Collection When I was a kid, you said your prayers thanking God that Joan Crawford was not your mom. Because of the 1981 biopic Mommie Dearest, children my age and younger all thought she was a rage-filled monster who would beat you simply because she didn’t like wire hangers....

Amelia Earhart and husband George Putnam. 1931 source: International News Photos, // Wikimedia Commons Documentarian and journalist Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s forthcoming book is about an Atchison, KS native who has (most likely) been dead since 1937. The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon hits shelves July 15. The book will...

Ann Foley might be able to tell you how a once novel fungal contagion can turn seemingly stable people into violent flesh eaters and cause civilization to collapse.

To survive a horror movie, we all know that we are not supposed to invite a vampire past a doorway, say “I’ll be right back” or feed a gremlin after midnight. We can now also add that it’s a bad idea to play with a jack-in-the-box featuring a clown

For more than 100 years, a pair of statues represented Arkansas in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Until last year, Uriah Milton Rose (1834-1913), a founder of the American Bar Association and a two-time president of

H.L. Mencken once declared "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." With remarks like that you wonder how he managed to ever get married, but he married fellow writer Sara Haardt in 1930 and later championed her writing when she died

There are no guns, gore, action or even supernatural menace in Frances Ford Coppola's "The Conversation," but it's one of the most disturbing and engrossing films movies I've ever seen. I discovered it while I was channel surfing as a kid, and it has never left me.

I didn’t have to read the Internet Movie Database page on Wolf Man to know co-writer-director Leigh Whannell really likes David Cronenberg’s The Fly. All during the third act, as Christopher Abbot’s Blake succumbs to his lupine infection, he turns…

As a production designer, Arthur Max has made a career out of creating environments that don't exist outside of a movie screen.

"At the premiere for the doc(umentary) in NYC, I started, 'Usually, we say please turn off your phones before the screening. In this case, when you walk out of here, you may want to throw out your phone,'" said "Surveilled" co-director Matthew O'Neill last week on Zoom.

"Anora" currently has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 97% among critics and a 91% audience score.

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Orson Welles once observed, "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." In the case of Orange, N.J.-born Robert DeShaun Peace, a movie made on him would have a happy conclusion if it ended with his 4.0…

This year's Filmland from the Arkansas Cinema Society at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts on 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, reintroduces viewers to worthy films that they might have missed earlier, lets them catch movies and TV shows before they open…