Jeanie Pyun

Top row, from left: 'The Day After Tomorrow,' 'The Fruit Hunters' and 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline'; midle row, from left: 'Paradise,' 'Hell,' 'Princess Mononoke'; bottom row, from left: 'Snowpiercer,' 'Melancholia' and 'Project Hail Mary' Courtesy Everett Collection (5); Eye Steel Film; Disney/Ser Baffo; Courtesy of Paramount Pictures; Studio Ghibli Aside from artificial intelligence (and OK, maybe zombies), perhaps no other factor has been more cinematically responsible for the end of human...

In an alignment that some may find humorous, 2025 has seen fit to have the informal marijuana holiday known as 420 coincide with two of the most religious days of the year, Easter Sunday and the last day of Passover. As Americans hunt for dyed eggs, spike their blood sugar levels with Peeps, attend services, enjoy matzoh dishes and memorialize the dearly departed, others may be consuming cannabis products with a sense of ceremony.

Thousands gathered in London’s Parliament Square to protest an April 16, 2025, U.K. Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman that excludes trans women. The unanimous court decision impacts, among other rulings, a 2018 Scottish law requiring at least 50 percent females on boards of public entities, which had previously included transgendered females.