It can be tough going to the cinema when you’re living in Central Europe. I saw the 2016 film "Arrival" in Budapest, a movie about linguists trying to translate an alien language into English. They ...

Even as a steadfast hater of Illumination’s yellow mischief-makers, their mass-market appeal cannot be denied: clearly people cannot get enough of Steve Carell’s Gru-some supervillain and his ...

A meme dunking on AI-generated art is making the rounds online, and resonating with folks who miss the raw creativity that ...

The music mogul was transformed into the character Gru, complete with a bald head and pointed nose, by an army of minions who took to the stage. As the troupe of minions arrive at the auditions ...

Many parents dragged along by their children to see A Minecraft Movie, directed by Jared Hess, this month could only have felt confusion when mobs of teenagers took over entire ...

This incident, now dubbed “SignalGate,” has ignited a firestorm of memes across social media platforms. In response, Defense Secretary Hegseth denied any war plans were shared, stating ...

Of Real Housewives? Of JD Vance? OpenAI released a new version of their image generation technology, and people are using it to recreate memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation ...

Meme-makers could not leave that alone. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and ...

Above all, it expresses a kind of bemusement at the tumultuous unknowability of our moment, and in that respect it has something in common with other memes that have gained traction in the first ...

And in fact, a study published in 2021 examined meme consumption during the pandemic, finding that something as simple as viewing a few memes can be helpful in fostering positive emotions ...