Isaac Butler

Pedro Pascal has made his name playing gruff daddies, but that’s just the beginning.

I was a Tom Hardy skeptic. No one predicted what made me change my mind.

The Brutalist actor was once bound for leading-man Hollywood stardom. Now he’s set to get recognized for a very different kind of role.

Colin Farrell is one of our finest, prettiest actors. Why is he waddling around in prosthetics?

Why Reagan star Dennis Quaid always delivers the right stuff for the wrong movies.

And ditch your hangups about reading.

“I do think people are hungry for, and appreciative of, a reason to go out and see something.”

“Renting [your home] is actually not that financially bad.”

“Come on Feel the Illinoise” is now a spectacular narrative dance piece.

Camera Obscura is back with a new album after a decade away.

A novelist and a researcher explain how they teamed up to strengthen the plot and themes of a new novel about marine life.

“If you’re veering away from conflict, you’re not actually effectively collaborating.”

“Those ten minutes can feel like an hour.”

“You don’t wait for inspiration. You cultivate inspiration.”

From the seed of an idea to the stage at The Met.

He crafted the sonic worlds of Nope, Poor Things, and the aurally terrifying Zone of Interest.

Abortion activism, anti-gun propaganda, and HIV awareness, smuggled onto prime time.

Including a seven-part formula that starts with “extemporaneous” and ends with “freedom.”

“There are, of course, producers who just sort of sit there in the credits.”

Shakespeare truthers poison the discourse, just like every other kind of conspiracy theorist.