Oscars love their biopics, and the best actor category proves it. Here's the best of the best from the past 25 years, including Will, Denzel and Leo.

A restored 1897 silent film by Georges Méliès may be the earliest movie to feature a mechanical "robot" character on screen.

With a film career spanning three decades, Miss Wong, who rose to stardom with “The Thief of Baghdad,” was acclaimed as a versatile and talented performer.

The Secret Agent is one of the most celebrated international films of the year. It has been nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The film stars Wagner Moura and is set in ...

There is something quietly radical about sitting in a dark theater this week. President Trump and his administration launched ...

Perhaps some credit for that should go to the merits of box bags per se. There is an unmistakable allure to those sharp angles and sleek lines. They suggest a measure of order in a crazy and chaotic ...

In history defining science-fiction news, the Library of Congress has uncovered what might be the first robot movie ever made ...

Gugusse et l'Automate In the brief silent film, Méliès portrays a magician named Gugusse who is showing off an “automaton” in what looks like a proto–robot manufacturing facility. The automaton is ...

Scientists have uncovered a link between a mysterious burst of red-stained water in Antarctica and a drop in the glacier sitting above it. The Blood Falls in Antarctica are a unique feature found at ...

A wooden relic sealed inside the Great Pyramid has been dated centuries before Khufu’s reign. If the results hold, Egypt’s Old Kingdom timeline may not be as fixed as historians believed. One ...

The Davis Genealogy Club will host a free virtual presentation by Sharon Hoyt, CG, at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, "What Happened to Uncle Walter? Evidence Analysis and Correlation Uncover a Man’s Dual ...

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