Young David Beckham only had one goal: to play professional soccer, or football as it’s called everywhere but the United States. His childhood in East London was devoted to the game — Beckham’s father, Ted, was an unwavering source of support and tough love, but the young player’s single-mindedness came from within. “My dad didn’t have to say to me, ‘Oh, don’t go out with your friends tonight,’ because I knew what was right and what was wrong,” the international…

Summertime: The living is easy, school’s (almost) out, and the days are growing longer and hotter — which means there’s plenty of space for cool nights spent on the couch. Curl up with family, pals, or a really big bowl of popcorn, and queue up your next Netflix obsession.

Since the tender age of seven, Dakota Fanning has owned every moment she’s been onscreen. The actor’s breakthrough came in the 2001 drama I Am Sam — a performance she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for, making her the youngest nominee in SAG history. Fanning went on to star in Man on Fire and War of the Worlds, portray Cherie Currie in the musical biopic The Runaways, and deliver a captivating turn in the Emmy-nominated series The Alienist. 

“You are bugs” and you have been warned. 

Even though the showrunners of 3 Body Problem had decades of experience adapting popular book series to create Emmy-winning television — David Benioff and D.B. Weiss with Game of Thrones, Alexander Woo with True Blood — transforming Liu Cixin’s Hugo Award-winning sci-fi trilogy presented a few novel challenges. “As books, they work enormously well, and we were excited by the challenge of making a show that makes you feel the way that we felt when we read them,” says Weiss. “It isn’t exactly the same…

Wes Anderson loves an ensemble. The celebrated auteur’s films are as full of great actors as they are of delicately framed set pieces and pastel wallpaper. His four new shorts, based on a series of beloved Roald Dahl stories, are no exception. “I like the idea, right off the bat, of having a little company play the whole film,” Anderson told Netflix earlier this year. And so he did; the four works that comprise his Dahl collection each star different…

Wes Anderson is one of the most recognizable filmmakers working  today, an auteur with a visual stamp so distinctive that a single frame is often enough to identify one of his films. But what goes into crafting that aesthetic?