And I knew that Bela Lugosi was an epic actor from the ancient world whom people like Sahil still look up to today. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I think it’s an epic compliment that the entire auditorium of about one thousand people was completely silent while the movie played. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“And it's been less than a week. We're ahead of schedule, and this trip was epic.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just make the most epic road trip playlist of all time.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

In return, Hazel had promised to coach her in sword fighting—a skill at which Piper epically sucked. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The story was a part of the great Persian poet Ferdowsi’s epic poem Shahnameh, which roughly translates to The Book of Kings. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

But no amazement could be spared for a river, no matter how epic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Which meant this was a true-blue emergency of epic proportions. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It took them another few minutes to make it to the epic front porch, and when her mom rang the bell, the sound of chimes that came from inside the house played “Ode to Joy.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I may have buried the lead, but I need to give you twenty years of epically romantic context before we revisit the end of their marriage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But then again, she thought, it gave their marriage a certain epic scope. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

If I was a Spook, every day’d be as epic as today. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There they were, in his living room in New Haven, awash in soft jazz and daylight, and she looked at him, her good, bewildered man, and felt the day take on a sad, epic quality. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

From my parents’ awful plan to give up Sir Fig Newton for adoption, to my epic fail with the lemonade stand. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the world’s most renowned masters had visited the club—it was steeped in the echoes of legendary games, epic battles, hard-fought victories, and heartfelt defeats. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t need their help. We’re legends. Legends are better than epics.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In this sweeping international epic, black and white American soldiers protect each other under enemy fire in the African desert. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My trip to Pathfinder was a quick jaunt compared to the epic journey that's coming up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our beginning was very epic too,” Dylan says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“This is a new age of epics, you see,” said the sage-poet. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I only had that one epic jump in me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The newly minted “human geneticist,” Josef Mengele, would soon rise to become the most epically perverse of Nazi researchers, whose experiments on prisoners would earn him the title Angel of Death. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Later that morning, your breakfast, along with your morning meds, comes up in an epic projectile puke in the rec room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But its scientific findings, its epic discoveries, its travelers’ tales, do return. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So one day, about six months after the adoption went through, Natalie was almost two, and it was a Saturday afternoon, and I was having this epic meltdown.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This monumental new piece announced to the next generation of composers that the symphony was now to have an epic dimension. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The scenarios reminded me of my youth, when my sisters and I would enact epic dramas with our food. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mike interrupted us then — he was planning an epic battle of the blizzard in the parking lot after school and wanted us to join. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’d come up with an epic prank—something hilarious to distract us and make us laugh. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, accounts of the 1963 epic on Everest resonated loud and long in my preadolescent imagination. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“No...well, yeah. But that’s not what I’m talking about. My mom promised me an epic birthday party if I got straight A’s. I told you that.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or was she just someone who made an epic mistake and had to do something epic to fix it? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Severe epic disapproval—such as moms and teachers do real well. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Each a tottering fiefdom with an epic of its own. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gearing up for the basketball season, I would go on these epic runs all around town, and I—okay, I admit it—I’d run by her house more than once. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Okay, but I was going to make the second most epic playlist.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

At festivals, storytellers would recite the epic adventures of the most popular bogatyri, the tsar’s most trusted and magical knights. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Hudson leans in, puts his fist underneath his chin, and stares off into the sky like he’s just had the most epic eureka moment and is now ready to remake the world. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

While he had fewer tattoos than his companion, they were more elaborate—not the self-inflicted work of an amateur but epics of the art contrived by Honolulu and Yokohama masters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I actually like having Windy over, but I’m dying to know if anyone solved my epic problem in the math forums. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s not like the many cute guys I see out and about in the city where I dream up some epic love only to forget what they look like an hour later. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Then she whispers, “Trust me, your night is going to be epic.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The last time we had everyone over, we had an epic karaoke night. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Even the soundtrack chosen for this level is off-the-charts epic, full of orchestral strings and deep drums, sending my heart soaring. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was, remembered one reporter, “an epic of espionage.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was, indeed, the stuff of future epic sonnets. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Abby is better at this than I am—she launches into a really detailed description of everyone’s costumes, while my mom brings over this epic plate of snacks from the counter. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

In the stories, the Pandava brothers fought an epic battle against their own family. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Followed by laughter and the good-natured ribbing that usually followed one of Luke’s epic failures on this front. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This was epically upmarket, but I couldn't let Belet know I thought that. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He pivots and grins at me like we’re on an epic adventure. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tom Smith and Red Pollard, just in from the West with Seabiscuit, were in the Belmont stands to see War Admiral’s epic performance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julia moans nonstop about being eighteen but eighteen’s epic, from where I’m standing. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe I had messed up so epically. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The week after, he brought along an illustrated copy of the Mahabharata, the Hindu epic. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He answered that it didn’t, but Ferdowsi would be appalled that an Arab knew more about his epic poem than a nice Persian girl. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When they told Lara she failed, she threw an epic temper tantrum so bad she may not be allowed to try out again next year if Agent Fiona has anything to say about it. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I grin at her, dying to know how her scientific brain is going to deal with this epic level of coincidence. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Johannesburg used to have this epic drive-in movie theater, Top Star Drive-In, on top of a massive mine dump outside the city. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Yes. He request-friended me," Mom says, epically failing to speak Facebook. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The following year, Isaac Newton published his epic work on light and colour, Opticks, having deliberately sat on it for thirty years, waiting for Hooke to die. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

This led to an epic shouting match in which we exhausted all our analogies and then started all over again from the top. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I know it’s silly and useless—epically useless in my current state—but I am an animal like any other. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The elders would tell tales of the wars fought by our ancestors in defense of the Fatherland, as well as the acts of valor by generals and soldiers during these epic days.. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or possibly an epic fuckstorm of a disaster, depending on whether Martin can keep his mouth shut. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

For centuries, ballads, and epics were all sung, as were Biblical chants and Vedic hymns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Margo Roth Spiegelman, whose stories of epic adventures would blow through school like a summer storm: an old guy living in a broken-down house in Hot Coffee, Mississippi, taught Margo how to play the guitar. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had grown weary of his handheld video game—evidence that they were on a truly epic drive. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, following the meal came songs, epic poems, and speeches in praise of the princesses and the three gallant adventurers who had rescued them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some love stories are tragedies—epics, spanning years, and built on dramatic irony, wars, Russian winters, and hours of film. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m just saying. You guys have this epic beginning.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It feels somehow epic and fragile, and I want the night to last forever, and knowing it can’t already has me sad. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Yeah, we could have used an epic hero about now. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The hunger that arcs through me is an epic, longing kind. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still pretty much an epic failure in the love department. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They were both good ships, with formidable weapons and defenses, but neither craft would offer much protection in the epic shitstorm that was about to unfold on Chthonia. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But the big details of my epic fail are all here. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The last thing they needed on this quest was paparazzi taking pictures of all Frank’s epic fails. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nearly every one of them had a cell phone out, recording the epic event. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the months following the epic deed, though, Waterman discovered that instead of putting his demons to rest, success had merely agitated them. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been raised in the shadow of his father, a legendary sailor who had faced a series of epic trials, and had always, miraculously, survived. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Her nerves getting the best of her, Seven began to talk nonstop and, over Thorn’s grandma Lilou’s famous fluffy pancakes, recounted the epic fight of the day before. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It was very romantic and epic the way you came to my job and waited in line and talked to me. Everyone should follow your lead!” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes the heroes in epics are assisted by eagle kings and clever monkey princes. But it’s been quite some time. The world is rusty at being dazzling, and so...here I am.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“This looks to be the most epic battle in videogame history.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

King praised the students who had, as he put it, “fashioned...a creative protest that is destined to be one of the glowing epics of our time....” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, she tried her experiment by playing passages not from LordJim but from Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, the book that launched the epic film. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Piano lessons became epic and trying, largely due to my refusal to follow the prescribed method and Robbie’s refusal to see anything good in my freewheeling approach to her songbook. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At least that’s what I kept telling myself, in a vain attempt to stave off the epic loneliness I now felt. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh wow. Way more epic than Hudson Robinson.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The painting brightened and then seemed to awaken, each mermaid and monster flexing and turning ever so slightly, as if rising from an epic nap. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We have epic snowball fights, Mama and I go cross-country skiing, and Mustafa makes tons of money shoveling driveways. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Ralph believed that everything he said had to be epic, shocking, and elaborate. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Of course, the worst part is knowing it could have been the most epic birthday ever. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

No surprise that I was horribly, epically wrong. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“We want the first date to be epic and worthy of how we met,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I want to spin on my Air Maxes and haul my butt back to my regular life—back to the practice field and my epic teammates and a state championship to win. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

With an epic hangover, he just lay on his bed for hours. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin had heard some epic tirades about that cat in his two years in their home. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Look at you! How can you be so calm! Don’t you realize what this means? This is huge! This is beyond epic! I mean...congratu-freakin-lations, man!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The date wasn’t wrong, I just think that if the universe is setting us up here that our story deserves a more epic first date,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The train ride is a sleepy six-hour epic, every hour their rickety car shunted onto a siding to let trains full of soldiers, headed for the front, hurry past. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I would have thought up an entire backstory for the kids, something epic and exciting. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Whenever he got close to finding the jar, his dad would put on this Mexican mask a neighbor bought him and he would throw Mateo onto the couch for an epic fight. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There’s nowhere for all that energy to go, no mechanism for it to dissipate, so it erupts periodically in epic acts of violence and crazy parties. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My epic fantasies offer the illusion of generosity but never the real thing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Long stories and epic tales used music to draw in the audience and to help the reciter’s memorization. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A bold, outrageous plan that would require epic amounts of luck to pull off. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The truth and nothing but the truth, until this memorial epic is finished, So Help Us God! The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

An epic flood to wipe Mobius off the map and let us start the world anew. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

This image is an illustration from the Persian epic poem The Shahnama, which begins in the mythic past but includes a sequence of real rulers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The picture that made the biggest impression on Dad was a twelve-reel epic entitled Over the Hill to the Poor House, or something like that. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sounds epic,” I said in my flattest monotone. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The novelist would later win the Nobel Prize, but he was already famous for his classic Southern epics like The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It's epic being up at the crack of dawn. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Aside from the Mahabharata, the Ramayana was the other ancient epic poem that lots of Indians knew. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A large crowd of mice and woodlanders had gathered to witness the epic ascent. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My serve is what is called an epic fail, and some of the girls start doing the slow clap. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

You know, there is something tragically disappointing in two hours’ sleep after an epic night like that. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

These are the epic daydreams I would normally call forth while walking around town or waiting in line at the grocery store. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I chipped in, “that bit was epic.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

An American rapper had come to Hammanskraal, and it was the most epic thing they had ever seen. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Rishi was fairly certain he could write an epic poem about it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Before the epic disaster that was this evening, I probably had more admiration for her than I’ve ever had for anyone. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I heard her make her way down the creaky-floored hallway, each step counting down to what would surely be an epic Mom freak-out. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And yeah, maybe she had made an epic mistake, but that didn’t make her any less epic. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This little weirdness will be a small hiccup on our road to greatness, to epic coupledom. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the first part of his epic Ring cycle, The Rhinegold, for example, angry diminished chords are often used to signify the dangerous power of the Ring itself. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He had scolded Ifemelu as a child for being recalcitrant, mutinous, intransigent, words that made her little actions seem epic and almost prideworthy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That didn’t sound very heroic to Aru, It just sounded like an epic mess that required an epic cleanup. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And the fact that Carmen was quoting my poem was epically awesome. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But before Arthur’s big day, we’re all celebrating the epic birthdays of Harry Potter and J. K. Rowling at Dylan’s tomorrow. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The material for a great epic is there, as great as the Iliad, perhaps even greater, but no poet came to work it over as Homer did the early stories which preceded the Iliad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t have known it in the moment, but I was committing what would be deemed an epic faux pas. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pérez sported the most epic mustache I had ever seen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“He was measuring,” Dr. Posner explains, “the time it takes to have a thought. “As you go into the history of the study of attention, the really epic discovery was the speed of mental processing.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Neil Young sings like a barn collapsing but his music’s epic. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The epic mess, the second epic mess about Frank, but the first time, the very first time that she broke her promise. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“So, you ready for the most epic road trip of all time?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Behind the epic variance of natural organisms—tall; short; wrinkled; smooth; green; yellow; brown—there were corpuscles of hereditary information, moving from one generation to the next. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Olde Hampton’s street names—Lincoln, Grant, Union, Liberty—memorialized the hopes of a people fighting to unite their story with the epic of America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t really spoken since my total epic fail at the protest. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a Heartrender at the Little Palace who can recite epic poetry for hours. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mapping out memory lane seemed like an epic way to close out this summer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

On the inside of my closet door, I wrote an epic poem to the new owners telling them the house would always belong to me: Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

However you looked at it—whatever the ijji had been, and whatever had killed them, angels or not—this mound of bones was an epic mass grave. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There were several quotes highlighted in blue, all from the epically long poem known as “Song of Myself.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

This epic journey took three years, about as long as a modern Voyager spacecraft takes to fly from Earth to Saturn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had finished my mother’s books—not the boring history ones, I was never much into those, but the novels, the epics—I started spending my allowance on books. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even as Bobby was waging a secondary battle against cameras in Reykjavik, cameras in New York were televising his epic struggle on the board. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That was so epic!” he says, finally putting me down. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Clio was Muse of history, Urania of astronomy, Melpomene of tragedy, Thalia of comedy, Terpsichore of the dance, Calliope of epic poetry, Erato of love-poetry, Polyhymnia of songs to the gods, Euterpe of lyric poetry. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the model was unveiled at last, it was an epic letdown. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since then her eyes have become absolutely still, except when we work on this memorial epic. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My mom can bring me as soon as she gets home from work. You can tell me all about it before we have our epic day in the forest.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra read Homer’s epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, poetry by Hesiod and Pindar; and plays by Euripides and Menander. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, I’m kind of awesome at reenacting epic wedgies. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Sadly, the epic project never got off the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Odyssey, an epic poem about a hero’s journey home from war, ends with reunion and peace. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In spite of all these difficulties, he continued to prepare his epic book on mechanics, inertia and motion. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Game of Thrones" follows the epic story of warring families in a multi-generational struggle for control of the Iron Throne, which rules over the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. 'Game of Thrones' author teases two possible new books in 2018 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

The success of Game of Thrones has led to a proliferation of big-budget epic dramas. Game of Thrones success has cable firms rushing to catch up 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Part epic love story and part family mystery, “I’ll Give You the Sun” examines the repercussions of grief, the transformative nature of love and the revelatory power of art. 6 Y.A. Love Stories to Add to Your Reading List 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Through an epic assembly of often poignant stuff runs a confessional thread, as the artist narrates his journey through the world of modern art, between Africa and Europe and back again. The anti-museum flinging open its doors 2013-07-01T15:51:36Z

The BBC drama controller, Ben Stephenson, promised "epic film versions" of the four Shakespeare plays, "by some of the best directors in the country". BBC to screen first TV adaptation of Henry V for more than 30 years 2010-09-29T19:00:00Z

His movies “have enriched our world with stories of epic adventure,” said David M. Rubenstein, the Kennedy Center’s chairman. Cicely Tyson and George Lucas Among Expanded Class of Kennedy Center Honorees 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

When she writes about the object of her obsessions, she makes even the minor details sound epic, as on “Noccalula”: “I can almost taste your spit, pilsner brew and cigarettes.” Allison and Katie Crutchfield, Twins, Go Separate Ways 2012-08-30T13:34:19Z

Amelia's epic migration was no mere curiosity: As Pinchin explains, it vividly demonstrated the folly of conventional tuna management. In bluefin tuna, fisheries science is never neat 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

As elegantly sumptuous as they are imaginatively extravagant, Kuniyoshi’s greatest prints represent turbulent, epic visions of human protagonists battling supernatural beings on three-page spreads two and a half feet across, a format he invented. Art Review: At Japan Society, Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 2010-04-15T21:23:00Z

Across four decades, we’ve witnessed a full-blown, epic saga of a man perpetually considering, but never achieving, retirement. A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

The pot-au-feu is indeed epic, as is the duck a l'orange. Daniel Rose, an American in Paris, Comes Home to Cook 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

The movie draws on a range of classics, from silent adventure serials to screwball mysteries like “The Thin Man” to the swashbuckling epics of Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn. ‘Inspector Sun’ Review: A Web of Cinema Classics 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

If all goes as intended, these two enthralling episodes will be the opening chapters of an epic that promises to occupy viewers into the 2020s. ‘The Crown’ Episodes 1 and 2: Stiff Lips, Warm Heart 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

“It’s a fantastic story, a story that resembles a complex modern novel more than a dusty old Norse epic,” he explained. Director of Seattle ‘Ring’ operas: Go, ponder, enjoy 2013-08-02T22:06:32Z

Another large image by Warhol, a “Self Portrait” in four parts, triggered the other epic bidding match of the day. Auctions: In Contemporary Art Sales, Big Is Better and Famous Is Best 2011-05-13T12:00:05Z

Still, there's a reason this epic was often invoked as a political apologue, especially in breakdowns of Beltway machinations. On the Iron Anniversary of "Game of Thrones," here's hoping Joe Biden doesn't go Ned Stark on us 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Havens played many songs written by Mr. Dylan, and he spent three days learning his epic “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” Richie Havens, Guitarist and Singer, Dies at 72 2013-04-23T02:06:59Z

He dismisses talkies as a fad and tries to prove he’s right by shooting a silent epic that, with the 1929 crash, bankrupts him. Movies: A Season of Movies About Movies 2011-12-04T03:43:05Z

Of all the cliches associated with rappers, one with more truth in it than most is their fondness for epic entourages: staff, sidekicks and assorted hangers-on designated a token menial role in the group. Pitbull: 'I would be hypocritical to perform there' 2011-08-25T21:00:01Z

But neither script nor actors forge a connection with the characters, who are neither traditionally epic nor creatively reimagined enough. Camelot TV Weekend: Kennedys vs. Borgias 2011-04-01T20:50:00Z

Duff is to play the role of Nina in Eugene O'Neill's sprawling family epic Strange Interlude, which has not been produced professionally in the UK since 1985. Season revealed 2013-01-30T16:33:11Z

The character is based on the dwarf of the same name in the German medieval epic poem The Song of the Nibelungs, overlaid with elements from the Norse sagas. A-Z of Wagner: A is for Alberich 2013-01-16T17:13:07Z

When he breaks the pact by falling for a girl called Pretti Sinclair, she is transformed into supervillain Diamond Eyes and an epic battle ensues. Ne-Yo unveils team up with Stan Lee 2010-10-12T12:13:00Z

Justin Chang of The Los Angeles Times described it as “an epic failure of nerve.” 'Rise of Skywalker' reviews among most critical in 'Star Wars' galaxy 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

It has many complicated things to say not only about Homer’s epic poem but about fathers and sons. A Father and Son Sail Through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ Together 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

Lawrence’s epic fantasy is a great summer read, full of humor, revenge and perils that this warrior-and-coward duo must evade in order save their kingdoms and themselves. Best science fiction and fantasy in June

At dusk it was easy to imagine him staring out onto the water during the epic and changeable storms that would sweep through frequently, a fitting setting for a man known for his volatile character. Footsteps : Following Dylan Thomas in Wales 2014-03-20T20:37:20Z

Because if there was ever a film guaranteed to be an Academy competitor if not a surefire winner, it’s Roma, already heralded as a colossally-scaled epic from an auteur who doesn’t bother with small movies. Is Netflix about to change how it releases original movies? 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Tanavoli, not long back from study in Italy, was comparably experimental in sculpture, creating found-art depictions of heroic figures from Persian epics and casting single calligraphic letters in bronze. Art Review: Shows at Asia Society and N.Y.U. Grey Art Gallery 2013-09-05T21:50:26Z

And, in my humble opinion, it's an epic fail. 'Superman: Earth One' is a disappointment 2010-11-23T21:06:00Z

And it’s too easy to dismiss concerns by saying the opera is just a fairy tale, or that Zeffirelli’s production is just an over-the-top costume epic that shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Few novelists have attempted to capture Miami’s various cultures — and cultural collisions — with the seriousness and empathy that Banks employs in his sweeping epic. Read Your Way Through Miami 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

However, her most epic feat was making a triple batch for the Vaughan's Oktoberfest, an annual party hosted by my parents on the weekend of Indigenous Peoples' Day, our own version of the German festival. The truth behind my grandma's (not-so-secret) corn casserole 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

Though nearly three decades have passed since the trio starred in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 dinosaur epic, that series-starter still manages to resonate in impressive ways. The Real Stars of the ‘Jurassic’ Films? Friends, Not Dinosaurs. 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Their creation is just a sliver of the meticulously imagined landscape in Jemisin’s epic in which a young woman is thrust into a battle over the inheritance of her grandfather’s throne. Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

It’s an epic narrative, and yet, at the same time, no more than a sketch. Critic?s Notebook: Harvard Sailing Team Breathes New Life Into Sketch Comedy 2012-01-30T21:58:14Z

The sound rarely roams from garage-rock-psych and strives to achieve the epic and intense. New band of the day ? No 1,270: Palma Violets 2012-05-17T15:51:27Z

It's one of many reasons why this ambitious and surprisingly tender crime epic deserves to be more than a cult hit. Yakuza 4 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:22Z

In this telling, there are no heroes and, ultimately, no justice, but the whole sordid saga gets lightly burnished by its epic treatment, anyway. “Duets”: TV’s cheesiest “American Idol” ripoff 2012-05-31T14:58:00Z

Ironically, "Dark Star" happens to be the name of the Dead's most famous exploratory epic. Pitchfork in review: Odd Future plays nice 2011-07-18T04:27:00Z

Farscape had an epic premise fans of Buck Rogers may remember, but quickly became a very strange, complex and subversive show. Firefly to Futurama: the cancelled TV shows you are still angry about 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

The “South Pacific” at the Olney Theatre Center is more substantial than Rep Stage’s skinny “Sweeney,” which takes a stab at Stephen Sondheim’s bloody epic with a scant eight actors and three musicians. Review | A beached ‘South Pacific’ — and what is Trump doing in ‘Sweeney Todd’? 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

“It’s a newspaper comedy, a domestic melodrama, a gothic romance and a historical epic.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Citizen Kane' 2011-03-14T21:37:53Z

The epic story Burke has fashioned is thick with tension to the very end. Burke fashions epic story in ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

His epic project to record America's birds in huge colour plates – which has become the world's most expensive book – was one of those rare moments when science and art are one. Sebastião Salgado shows us ends of the Earth as Child With a Dove takes flight 2013-04-12T13:12:58Z

Instead of expounding a tedious origin story or staging an epic battle for apocalyptic stakes, “The Wolverine” focuses on a specific and self-contained adventure in a richly imagined place. Movie Review: In ‘The Wolverine,’ Hugh Jackman Broods Again 2013-07-25T21:12:49Z

Who wouldn’t want to see Jim Henson revisit the epic world of wonder that captivated our hearts 34 years ago? Will the Labyrinth sequel work without David Bowie and Jim Henson? 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

It’s a two-part, seven-hour epic that uses “Howards End” as a starting point for a play that looks at gay life in the early 21st century. Tony Awards and TV special hope to be the jab Broadway needs 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

American Power is an epic study of how America produces and uses energy, and how that impacts on the environment and on the American landscape. Mitch Epstein is a worthy Prix Pictet winner 2011-03-18T15:43:20Z

The interwar period, in which Poland achieved nationhood for the first time in centuries, led to an outpouring of nationalist epics, often adapted from literary sources. A short history of Polish cinema 2011-04-06T13:41:35Z

He learned local languages, socialized at coffeehouses and took careful notes during singsong recitations of epic poems with over 10,000 lines apiece. The Arcane Charms of Mangle Boards 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

See: pastels on the porch and the epic, iconic Teen Denim Combo. Justin Timberlake, why do you make it so hard for us to love you sometimes? 2013-03-15T15:15:00Z

An opera composer would need the epic gifts and epic gall of a Richard Wagner to consider an adaptation of “Hamlet” and think: “Yup, I’ve got this.” Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

Scott's big-budget epic, which opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, is projected by BoxOffice.com to earn $32 million in its opening weekend. Epic 'Exodus' casts Christian Bale's Moses as reluctant leader 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

“Air Mail” revisits the peripatetic, mystically inclined Mitchell from “The Marriage Plot” as he endures an epic case of dysentery — and a hallucinatory fast — at a backpackers’ camp in Thailand. The anxious, disappointing world of Jeffrey Eugenides 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

And not without reason: Revering the art of the Spanish Viceroyalty was beyond the pale in the immediate aftermath of an epoch when brutality reached epic proportions. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

That said, the show does have a flair for the epic, as seen in a semifinal inspired by Greek myths, specifically their divine punishments. The strength of "Physical: 100" is in what is has to say about our view of the perfect physique 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

With very little shade, thousands of event-goers were forced to wait in epically long lines to buy small plates of local delicacies. Brooklyn turns out in droves for Great GoogaMooga, new foodie fest 2012-05-21T17:44:48Z

Marsh uses talking head interviews, archival footage and reconstructed scenes to draw us into an epic drama that swirls around this creature and the desires of those who would attempt to shape him. Project Nim: we are the real chumps in this chimp's story 2011-01-21T11:00:10Z

Like an epic version of George Orwell’s “1984,” this novel ranges from the bottom of North Korea’s social ladder to its top, with plenty of affecting, wayward and even comic supporting characters. 2012′s best — so far 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z

And has it failed epically on that front. Anonymous strikes back 2012-06-03T13:00:00Z

When Sheen started extolling his father's epic coolness, having killed Colonel Kurtz in a typhoon, you started to wonder did he think "Apocalypse Now" was real? Charlie Sheen hits New York - but what IS the show? 2011-04-10T00:08:52Z

The fictionalized biopic continuation of the Ip Man saga is nowhere near as epic, fraught with drama or burnished with the lush production design of its predecessor. 'Ip Man 2': Sequel's martial-arts action beats the storytelling 2011-01-27T22:55:30Z

Accompanied by a traditional orchestra of wind instruments, xylophones and drums, the artists will perform this story of princes and gods from the Reamker, the Cambodian version of the Ramayana epic. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z

There was an epic scale to the fear: no humdrum new-dad ennui but a rolling freakout at sperm, sex, the lot. Eraserhead: the true story behind David Lynch's surreal shocker 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

It's all epic, if slightly textbook stuff, but the title track and By Design conjure up a brooding menace rarely heard since Jane's Addiction. Dead Confederate: Sugar 2010-08-19T20:59:00Z

We’ve got all your answers Warning: Major, epic, comprehensive spoilers ahead. The Master Mystery: Solving Paul Thomas Anderson’s Many Riddles 2012-09-24T12:00:35Z

In feline terms, this is a movie without epic hairballs, without rear-end sniffing, without a deep, wounding scratch. ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Reportedly recorded over a six-day span in Atlanta and released suddenly in late September, it coasted on the wave of hysteria over Future’s dark drug epic “Dirty Sprite 2” but was an event in itself. Drake & Future, 2 of the biggest names in rap, to play the Dome 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Despite his position at the center of the Los Angeles rock firmament, he kept a low-key presence both onstage and in life, steering clear of the epic hedonism of the era. David Lindley, ‘Musician’s Musician’ to the Rock Elite, Dies at 78 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

As with his previous epic adaptation of the Lord of the Rings, Jackson shot the Hobbit trilogy in his native New Zealand, which has seen a significant boost in tourism thanks to his landscape-rich cinematography. The Hobbit‘s ‘Smaug’ Checks In for Flight 2013-12-02T08:25:29Z

In their epic scale and detail, they evince an almost painterly sense of stillness that is utterly at odds with the devastation they depict. Luc Delahaye turns war photography into an uncomfortable art 2011-08-09T08:00:02Z

As a loud-and-proud champion of the Richard Curtis epic — which tells nine interwoven stories over 2 hours 16 minutes — Matthews has a high tolerance for its fanciful sentimentality. Chris Matthews is America’s greatest champion of ‘Love Actually.’ So we watched it with him. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Nearly 18 feet across, this epic tableau pictures the gleaming Saint Mark, patron saint of Venice, plunging headfirst from the sky to free a naked slave punished for worshiping him. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The epic tale of two boys making their way across the terrifying bridge between youth and maturity delivers the old-fashioned delights of traditional fable in the rapturously inventive terms of timeless theater. 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' reminds us of the power of courage in the face of evil 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Her debut fantasy — “An Ember in the Ashes” — was the epic tale that inspired me to write “Children of Blood and Bone.” Tomi Adeyemi Hates Assigned Reading 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The two women laugh while Nucky tries to recite “The Song of Hiawatha,” the epic poem by Longfellow he had to memorize as a boy. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: No Exit 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

The results are an exuberant hodgepodge of genres, including an action thriller, a samurai fantasy epic and an astonishing melodrama of race, passion and family honor set on a 19th-century plantation. Critic?s Notebook: New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-20T22:30:26Z

Although the American University Museum show is the first exhibition of such artwork in the United States, much of it is as recognizable as old-fashioned magazine-illustration realism, albeit on an epic scale. In the galleries: Norman Rockwell would have recognized these socialist images 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

"As a sweeping epic, family tale, it was best in show," said Nelson. Donna Tartt novel tops Amazon list 2013-11-08T12:46:34Z

His latest album, Bish Bosch, is only his third in 17 years, all of them elaborate, epic and inaccessible. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z

Beethoven attempts to appropriate and transform operatic methods of his day, comic and epic, into a screed of unrealistic political and conjugal idealism. Beethoven's messy opera 'Fidelio' is in fine hands in San Francisco 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Frank Herbert’s “Dune” may seem like the most epic of these epics, but before him writers such as E.E. Review | ‘Dune’ is a classic space opera. Let’s talk about other great works in this genre. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Then again, voters might be as conflicted over the show's epic finale as the viewers were. Sunday's Emmy Awards may honor several new hit television programs ? or not 2010-08-25T22:55:00Z

Star-crossed lovers shivering under furs in an epic romance against a backdrop of Russian revolution? I've never seen ... Doctor Zhivago 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

Westeros DNA can be spied in everything from straightforward historical epics such as The Last Kingdom to the weird, wild world of Sky Atlantic’s Britannia. Game of Thrones: how it dominated the decade – then lost its way 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

But I subtract points, too, because for fans of onscreen bloodshed this was an epic tease. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Finale: The Ultimate Betrayal 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

And if you want to continue with something romantic but in an epic vein, there are L. Penelope’s “Earthsinger” books, which are sure to sweep you into a world packed with magic and excitement. Review | ‘The Princess Bride’ and other fantastical novels to help you escape reality 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

To be clear, they’re not D&D Saturday morning kiddie cartoons like we had in the 1980s, nor lame “Lord of the Rings”-like fantasy epics. Dungeons & Dragons isn’t a spectator sport: What we lose when the game comes out of the basement and onto the screen 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

There’s a new epic hero slashing his way into our hearts, and we may never get all the blood off our hands. Review | ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ is the fantasy epic everyone will be talking about 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

“I’ve got my long johns and it’s going to be epic,” she says. Performers gear up for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

She will throw a tantrum of epic proportions, but as long as you don’t punish her and put your relationship on the line, she will adapt. Perspective | Don’t blame genetics for daughter’s sassy demeanor. It’s more nurture than nature. 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Now go back to the first shot of the entire epic, three decades earlier. A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

The fantasy story is set in the American South and follows the epic adventures of Edward Bloom and the effect on his son. 'Big Fish' musical premieres in Chicago next year 2012-09-06T18:44:09Z

Her entry also fundamentally changes the show from a visually stunning, wordless survival epic into the most wonderfully unconventional tragic love story on TV. "Primal" may be the most unconventional love story on TV. Just not in the way you think 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

What looks to be that final track on the album, Fall Back 2 U, is an epic disco number, with its surging string section and solo sax. Chromeo 'trying to work all angles' 2014-02-03T07:44:42Z

Auster’s book is an epic bildungsroman that presents the reader with four versions of the formative years of a Jewish boy born in Newark in 1947. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

It’s in many ways an ordinary story — how many city-dwellers fled to the country? — but her telling has the narrative beats of an epic myth. After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

"It worked well," he grins, ordering tea – he's been teetotal for years, since the Cult's glory days of epic overindulgence when he would down pints of Jack Daniels and Coke. The Cult: 'We're the Fulham of rock music' 2012-08-23T19:00:03Z

"Song of the Shank," Jeffery Renard Allen's epic and brilliant new novel about slavery and musical genius, is not an easy book to read. 'Song of the Shank' gives poetic voice to a unique American musician 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

It is a story that has all the makings of an epic crime saga, so good it could be made into a movie. Whitey Bulger: An American crime drama 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Amid the gorgeous Capri scenery, Mr. Godard muses on storytelling’s evolution from the Homeric epic to the modern myth making of the movies, and on iconography’s progression from bronze statues to Ms. Bardot. Movie Listings for April 1-7 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

I always wanted to do something in epic fantasy. ArtsBeat: Q. & A. With ?Game of Thrones? Author 2011-04-01T12:30:50Z

He’s constructed this book with the same joints as the old epics: episodes of gripping intensity linked loosely together in an arc that resolves itself only at a distance. Review | ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ is the fantasy epic everyone will be talking about 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The first 10 episodes, roughly eight minutes each, are set in the present day and tell the origin stories of the legion’s new recruits, with jumps through time and epic battles to follow. ?Legion of Extraordinary Dancers,? Online Adventure 2010-06-25T04:17:00Z

They announced their imminent demise in 1986, and then played one epic final show at Wembley Stadium. An Exclamatory Playlist! 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

His latest is a fascinating epic about a 2,000-year-old crow whose travels around the world have revealed to him secrets of the universe. Best books of 2017: The best fiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Cinefamily“This is an old silent movie theater. They show movies that don’t get a wide release. I went and saw ‘Once Upon a Time in America,’ the Sergio Leone three-hour epic. | Dean Wareham, Longtime New Yorker, on Why L.A. Is the Land of Milk and Honey 2014-04-02T22:30:56Z

The film could have been a triumph or, even more endearing, a wild folly on the order of David Lynch’s mad science-fiction epic Dune. John Carter: Andrew Stanton's Martian Mission Impossible 2012-03-08T16:11:02Z

These characteristics are related to many of the epic dance-theater creations of Bausch, who was dancing in New York in the early 1960s. Review: The Humanity of Yvonne Rainer’s Natural and Peculiar Dances 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

With its double chorus, double chamber orchestra, cast of soloists, and intricate scoring, this is Bach at his most epic, as he sets to music the story of Christ’s Crucifixion. All the stars align for a stirring St. Matthew Passion at SSO 2014-02-22T20:45:27Z

“I think that ‘The Souvenir Parts I & II’ is an epic, on a completely human scale,” Scorsese says by email. In ‘The Souvenir Part II,” a human-scaled epic concludes 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

At one point, Gargantua rinses his hands in wine, picks his teeth with a pig’s trotter, spreads a green cloth over the table and embarks on an epic spree of card games. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Yet he was never interested in writing epic verse. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z

In the epic form of 12 Years a Slave, his most approachable, emotional film, McQueen escalates the tension with two long scenes, nearly 10 minutes of screen time. 12 Years a Slave and Mandela: Two Tales of Racism Survived 2013-09-09T23:34:54Z

Now largely out of print and seldom read, the lengthy epic poem of love and hate and revenge in rhyming couplets was, in its day it, hugely successful. Walter Scott's poems and Turner's paintings celebrated in an exhibition at the Bowes Museum 2013-01-25T12:00:00Z

Divided into clear, concise chapters and conducted in a style that might be called street-corner Ken Burns, this documentary, directed by Manfred Kirchheimer, is more essay than epic, preferring coherence to comprehensiveness. Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

It’s hard to make even a mock epic like this. The Visionaries: How Quentin Tarantino Concocted a Genre of His Own 2012-12-19T13:00:00Z

That one ran an epic three hours and 47 minutes, but drew a record 57.3 million viewers, as “Titanic” was named best picture. The Carpetbagger: Nine Films Vie for Best Picture 2012-01-24T14:27:35Z

Now the land is the site of an epic homemade castle complete with turrets and a fire-breathing dragon mounted on one of the chimneys. 10 of the most bizarre homemade playgrounds and attractions 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Part travelogue, part romance, part epic, it traces the exploits of Gillion on his journeys to Egypt, where he becomes a bigamist, and then dies in battle, a hero. ArtsBeat: Getty Museum Acquires Rare Illuminated Manuscript 2012-12-05T22:28:19Z

Mila was right; there was an undeniable romance riding through Siberia’s vast wilds on this implausible, impractical, yet epically scenic railroad. The Other Siberian Railroad 2012-08-10T18:28:44Z

The museum galleries circle the statue’s base, displaying gruesome and heroic relics — gloves and soap made from concentration camp victims, captured weapons and banners — and detailing the epic toll the war took on Ukraine. 36 Hours in Kiev, Ukraine 2012-06-21T19:38:44Z

Every two years, the city that seems to float on the Adriatic sea stages this epic display of contemporary art, notorious for its moneyed collectors, superyachts, and sprawl of almost limitless contents. How to survive Venice 2013 2013-01-02T14:56:10Z

During this period, Summer released an audacious remake of Jimmy Webb’s baroque pop epic “MacArthur Park,” and the valedictory “Last Dance,” in many ways the capstone of the disco era. Donna Summer dead at 63; more than just a disco diva 2012-05-17T19:44:00Z

It has been an epic battle between this unyielding fact and her unyielding will to earn a degree, to make a place for herself in the world. Is this Howard University’s tipping point? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

For this reason, an exemplary epic about Calcutta – in the manner of the new non-fiction work about India – was difficult to write. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z

It’s the thrill of being part of something epic and significant but – unlike the Klondike gold rush or Woodstock – always there and always available to all. The ultimate hike: three tasters of Canada’s Great Trail 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

It aims to tell the story "compulsively", to remain steadfastly "macro in scale" yet "epic in intensity". On the set of 127 Hours, the first big film of 2011 2011-01-01T00:04:00Z

In an epic series that never comes to a satisfying conclusion since all the titles were canceled within a year or two of conception? Reading irresponsibly with Jack Kirby 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Staton played Kenneth Cosgrove, the dude who made being a mad man look so easy, acing his accounts by day, writing epic fiction by night until his character finally got dark enough for the office. What the Mad Men Cast Has Been Up to Since the Show Ended 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

For the second year in a row, Emmy voters chose political satire "Veep" as best comedy and dragon-filled fantasy epic "Game of Thrones" as best drama. Cable kings HBO, FX upstage online competitors at TV's Emmys 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

After years of struggle and doubt, Ellison had finished “Invisible Man,” his epic of midcentury African-American life. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Offer the Pleasures of Big Ideas and Everyday Life 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan’s drama about a grief-stricken Boston janitor followed with six nominations, alongside adoption drama Lion and Mel Gibson’s war epic Hacksaw Ridge. La La Land equals record for most Oscar nominations 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

“Well, a musical, first and foremost. I want to do a big sci-fi epic. But not a pre-existing franchise.” Paul Feig: 'Male humour always devolves into homophobia and name-calling' 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Now the superhero epic "X-Men: Days of Future Past," opening Friday, is taking character crossovers and franchise maneuvering to the next level. 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' ups the ante on super-sequels 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Griffin joked that her only regret is that the epic evening will distract millions of viewers from enjoying this year’s World Cup. Comic Kathy Griffin to host Daytime Emmys online 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Instead they stretched Baker’s songs into gorgeously desolate epics that echoed through an outdoor amphitheater at the premiere at the Ojai Festival in California in June. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Lemire, the film critic for the Associated Press, described the film as "an epic letdown", adding that "the feeling of frustration and disappointment is unshakable". Rotten Tomatoes squashes abuse from Dark Knight Rises fans 2012-07-18T15:49:36Z

“America’s epic,” the poet Campbell McGrath writes, “is the odyssey of appetite.” He Hears America Singing Guns N’ Roses 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

In “And China Has Hands,” as Tsiang walks within the pages of his own novel, trying to sell his self-published epics, a fellow-traveller mocks him, badgering him with questions about his stalled career. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

When Savage becomes suspicious of the superheroes, an epic fight begins and Stein looks to his younger self to help counter the fallout. TV listings: Thursday, January 28, 2016 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

After all, that letter came not long after the publication of “Endymion,” an epic poem that was trounced by critics. Review | Two centuries after John Keats’s death, his famous odes are still sparking new discussions 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

His most notable career achievement — in my humble opinion — is the sports movie epic Like Mike. Here’s how to lie about your lifestyle online like Bow Wow 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

French food critic Fulbert-Dumonteil praised the chef for explaining “all the ingenious and charming ways to restore mutilated bits and pieces from epic feasts” and turn “cumbersome remains” into something that delights the palate. What to do with those Thanksgiving leftovers? Look to the French 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

The trilogy celebrates "the ethos from which the games were born with the epic Greek drama cycle of the people," said Willmott. Free drama of popular protest rocks London stage 2011-08-31T12:37:39Z

The Edinburgh International Festival is going large this year with three productions of "epic scale" being performed at the Royal Highland Centre. International festival goes large 2012-08-10T01:06:28Z

Even though it has plenty of fantasy elements, in many ways it’s more like an epic 19th-century novel with fantasy filigree, often more Tolstoy than Tolkien. George R. R. Martin Wants More ‘Game of Thrones,’ Too 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

And yet, epic ballads that work perfectly when performed in front of a choir and a waterfall of pyrotechnics are swiftly becoming the band's forte, as shown again on new single, Opposite. Biffy Clyro - Opposite: New music 2013-05-15T06:00:16Z

After the conventional epic invocation, the second stanza introduces our hero: "Whilome in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth." Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z

Not to worry: Aldi will have its epic variety of autumnal decor, such as cinnamon latte candles, ceramic pumpkins, witty box signs, and gnomes, which have become somewhat of a collector's item in recent years. 7 Aldi fall finds that are brand new this year 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

So begins an epic treasure hunt to locate Fudge Girl. Rainbow Rowell’s First Graphic Novel Serves Up Comedy and Romance 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

The festival celebrates her epic battle and victory over Mahishasura, the buffalo demon – good triumphs over evil. The art of craft shopping in India 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

For many years, the Ukrainian artist — who emigrated to Australia and, eventually, to Bosnia and Herzegovina — was searching for a way to interpret this epic tale, which she considers the first migrant novel. In Stone and Fabric, Two Artists Explore the Quest to Find Home 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

The movies have much in common: their creative teams, expansive running times, period settings, narrative density and epic scope. From ‘Goodfellas’ to ‘Flower Moon’: How Scorsese Has Rethought Violence 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s quiet and sometimes bone dry, tending to adopt the earnest epic tone of its ancient Roman speaker. ArtsBeat: The Mostly Good Old Days: Boris Kachka Talks About ‘Hothouse’ 2013-07-31T16:34:41Z

His latest baritone excursion is another Verdi epic, "Macbeth," which the singer first performed in Berlin last year. Plácido Domingo on playing Macbeth in L.A. Opera's season opener 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Emerson's epic video essay dissects the first part of a single action sequence in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" --  the Harvey Dent jail transfer that's interrupted first by the Joker, then by Batman. When an action sequence goes bad 2011-09-12T18:13:00Z

Backed by a seemingly solid glass wall of tightly packed beach houses, the Strand is wider, and has some of Southern California’s most consistently epic breaks. Escape From the City: 9 Winter Outings That Fight Cabin Fever 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

“Super Natural,” as its title suggests, is epic in scale and surreal in character. August brings extravagance at Seattle art galleries 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Powers moved to Tennessee five years ago, when he was working on “The Overstory,” a multigenerational epic that centers on the mysterious lives of trees. Richard Powers Speaks For the Trees 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

The latest novel to imagine the Earth undone by illness is Sandra Newman’s epic, “The Country of Ice Cream Star.” ‘The Country of Ice Cream Star,’ by Sandra Newman 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese director Wei Te-sheng will lead scores of aboriginal actors to attend a gala premiere in Taipei of his historical epic "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale." Historical epic film gets rare honor in Taiwan 2011-09-03T03:11:09Z

He backed up the article with an “epic onslaught of credible sources” to craft an airtight argument for her inclusion. Perspective | History has a massive gender bias. We’ll settle for fixing Wikipedia. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

You can go from epic scenes of dancing to the Queen Mab speech, and it all seems to weave in and out of this party scene. A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

So does Dudamel's romantic impulse to treat the Third as an epic struggle between forces of dark and light. Gustavo Dudamel brings out the full force and awe of Mahler's Third Symphony 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Back then, "Cider House" was a revelation — a vivid epic, steeped in the grand Victorian novel tradition of colorful yarn laced with social concern. Review: A pleasing revisit of 'The Cider House Rules' 2010-06-17T22:48:00Z

About 20 miles outside of Yuma, across the Colorado River in California in the Buttercup Valley, are these epic sand dunes that ripple and fold like the leathery skin of a sleeping monster. Greetings from Tatooine, Arizona 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

These multiplatinum albums are epically unkempt, for better and worse — it doesn’t get much blowzier, and it doesn’t get much more rollicking, or arrestingly melodramatic. Boxing Up the Past: The Year in 16 Pop, Rap, Soul and Jazz Sets 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

A Song of Ice and Fire — which is the rather florid title of Martin's series — is an epic for us, for the way we live now, and the way we fantasize now. George R. R. Martin's Dance with Dragons: A Masterpiece Worthy of Tolkien 2011-07-07T03:45:00Z

“What happened to Iraq is an epic, it is the complete destruction of Iraq either by the Iraqis or by the foreign forces,” he said. Mourning Iraq’s Destruction, a Native Son Creates 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

In an interview, he remembered a conversation he once had with a prominent director who maintained that the age of the epic opera had passed. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Her dusky voice, which rises with strength and focus, like a cloud condensing into a thunderbolt, breathed both humanity and epic grace into the music. Review: Exploring Langston Hughes in Song, Locally 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

“How do four people do an epic, instead of 22?” The wrath of Michael Kahn in comedies about critics 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

The group’s lyrics aren’t policy arguments, just epic portraits of misery that read a bit more realistically in their context. Music Review | Acrassicauda: A Scorpion From Iraq Trying to Sting in America 2010-02-24T21:34:00Z

You didn’t hear it said at the time, but when the epic McQueen show finally closed in August, a curtain quietly came down on contemporary fashion’s great decade of experiment and expansion. | Fashion Diary: Tents, but No Circus ? New York Fashion Week 2011-09-07T21:18:08Z

Check out the most massive, epic, colossal, Trump-ego-huge list of videos from 2015 that will remind you of how great this year was: The commercial that’ll make you call your parents. The year in viral videos: John Oliver, Larry David, mac-and-cheese douche and the very best the Internet had to offer 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

Tolkien first published in 1937, essentially launching the epic fantasy genre that now dominates so much of popular culture. “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”: Peter Jackson’s long goodbye to Middle-earth 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

But he let "Mars Needs Moms," the last movie made there, become an epic disaster at theaters in March 2011. Disney studio chief quits after 'John Carter' bomb 2012-04-20T18:01:18Z

I think he influenced younger playwrights a great deal and taught us not to be afraid of epic or of language. ArtsBeat: What 'Angels in America' Meant to Them, And to You 2010-10-25T13:34:00Z

Bravura is standard for the festival but what the troupe also delivered were patterns of epic movement and rhythmic complexity that displayed flamenco as spectacle. Nuanced footwork from Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

In Lausanne, they paid their respects at the house of Edward Gibbon, where he penned his revered epic history, “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z

The entities were first mentioned in the Mahabharata, a Sanskrit epic poem narrating the events and aftermath of the Kurukshetra War, which later served as the basis for the events of the Bhagavad Gita. "It Lives Inside": When a horror movie defangs its demon with poor metaphors 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

Others, like New Order’s epic instrumental for Ian Curtis Elegia, were songs that played on dual emotional levels mirroring the visible world and the other, the Upside Down. The best TV soundtracks of 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

On his final day of principal photography, after filming an epic clash with Boseman in which the adversary finally bests the hero, Jordan passed a mirror and didn’t even recognize the man staring back. Michael B. Jordan Is Finally in Control. Now What? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The expensive science-fiction epic fell from first place to fifth in a week, and all dreams of a Twilight-ish franchise seem doomed. Thor Thunders to a Marvel-ous $86-Million Opening 2013-11-10T22:24:47Z

Marvel's official announcement about his role in Guardians of the Galaxy was subtitled: "The action star will lend his booming voice to Marvel's epic Guardians of the Galaxy film!" Vin Diesel will voice Marvel's Groot 2013-12-22T18:17:01Z

Within the epic sweep of history from ice age hunter gatherers to modern suburban householders, Pinker examines both the big picture and the fine detail, with surprises on every page. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker – review 2012-11-19T07:02:01Z

Twitter Chrysler's epic Twitter misfire The American auto industry is like America itself – full of complications and contradictions, frequently depressed, and occasionally prone to whopper-sized social gaffes. Chrysler's epic Twitter misfire 2011-03-10T16:45:00Z

Colorado fans of the iconic California chain In-N-Out Burger waited on epic lines Friday as the state’s first two outlets opened. Massive 14-hour line forms as Colorado gets first In-N-Out Burger joints 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Shepherd — who dazzled as the inexhaustible narrator of “Gatz,” the Elevator Repair Service’s epic staging of “The Great Gatsby” — is even more unvarying as Troilus, whom he presents as an adenoidal, whiny adolescent. Review: ‘Cry, Trojans!’ Is the Wooster Group’s Take on ‘Troilus and Cressida’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

As Pelling's remarks imply, there are plenty of dawns in the great epic poem, which tells of Odysseus's return home to Ithaca after the Trojan war. Why 'Odyssey Dawn'? 2011-03-25T12:30:01Z

In one of the pieces on the Drive East program, “Sita Haran” — an episode from the epic poem “The Ramayana,” choreographed by the guru Mohapatra — she embodies no fewer than six characters. A Great Odissi Dancer Conjures Gods and Demons Alone 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

If you sense you are about to step into a sword-and-sandal epic with a mud room, you would not be altogether wrong. ‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

"We are enormously excited at the prospect of working together to realise our shared vision for epic drama of a truly spectacular scale." Sky extends deal to air HBO shows 2014-01-31T11:36:18Z

The show might not survive for long, but Lynch’s epic run in 2011 against the New Orleans Saints will live on forever. Ex-Seahawk Marshawn Lynch gets in twitter feud with Netflix’s ‘Ultimate Beastmaster’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Many paintings depicted scenes from Hindu epics I knew nothing about; I struggled to understand them but still found their elegant floral style absorbing. Finding the Other, Cheaper Side of Bali 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Set in a fantastical ghost town with a resident circus troupe and filmed on studio sets, it looks like a Sergio Leone epic as staged by Fellini, or by Lars von Trier. | 'The Warrior?s Way': And Baby Makes Comedy When a Princess Is Taken West 2010-12-03T23:09:00Z

The London Indian film festival opened on Wednesday with Gangs of Wasseypur, a two-part epic about criminal dynasties who control a mining town in the lawless state of Jharkand. The new Indian cinema: sex, crime and censorship 2012-06-21T19:30:01Z

The image of 8,000 Unsullied soldiers marching out of the city was, he recalls, like a scene from a movie by Leni Riefenstahl, the Nazi propagandist with an epic vision. Charles Dance: 'Thank God the BBC didn't make Game of Thrones' 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

And in Tippett's epic, full-evening, choral and orchestral composition, The Mask of Time, Davis was equal to all its musical and intellectual demands. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

You can have all the best ingredients, bring them to the right temperature, measure out the proportions just so, follow the prescribed bake time and the end product can nevertheless be an epic fail. How the "Great British Baking Show" flaked out on us when we needed it most 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

I was reading “The Tain,” an Irish epic translated by Thomas Kinsella, and that led to a number of other books. ArtsBeat: Back to Grouse County: Tom Drury Talks About ‘Pacific’ 2013-06-13T18:08:44Z

With massive battle scenes, biblical plagues and a towering tidal wave, British director Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings" is an epic historical drama and retelling of the story of Moses as a reluctant prophet. Epic 'Exodus' casts Christian Bale's Moses as reluctant leader 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The prose, lightly sparkling with argumentation and abundant with choice metaphors, is such that “Audience of One” reads like not just an essential American Studies text but as an epic disaster tale. A New Book Argues That Trump Is Television in Human Form 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

The story is as familiar as a classical Greek epic, an old B western, a Charles Bronson flick and, well, just about any chronicle of vengeance. Review: In ‘The Salvation,’ a Hero Lays Waste, Western Style (Danish, Too) 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

"It gave me the ability to write something more epic in scope than I'd usually write," said Ellis, whose first book of poetry, "Write About An Empty Birdcage," was published last year. Seattle artists imagine the apocalypse, set to music and poetry 2012-03-28T19:56:08Z

For those of us fortunate enough to be able to call ourselves native New Yorkers, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” is our very own outerbororough epic. Review | ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ was a classic. Does Betty Smith’s follow-up warrant reconsideration? 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

The bird icon opens and I’m delighted to see that 26 seconds ago, an epic rant in 140 characters was posted by Donald Trump. Mama is a Trump troll 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

An “epic battle ensues” as this series — based on characters from the DC Comics universe — nears the end of its second season. April 16 TV Picks: ‘Arrow’ on The CW 2014-04-15T20:47:48Z

Written within the space of only 10 years, each symphony employs Martinů's thoroughly characteristic musical language to convey very different moods and emotions, from the epic first to the experimental, fantastic sixth. Martin?: The Six Symphonies ? review 2011-07-23T23:05:51Z

But Moore’s story is so epic in scale and splendid in its unexpectedly detailed rendering of the inner psyches of costumed crimefighters that Snyder was really only required to add visual flare. Critics assemble: our writers pick their favorite superhero films 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

“The Voyage of the Sable Venus” is an epic written in one line. Broken, Defaced, Unseen: The Hidden Black Female Figures of Western Art 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Biblical epic "Exodus: Gods and Kings" finished fourth for the weekend with $8.1 million. Final 'Hobbit' film draws holiday season crowds at box office 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Durga’s epic story is more fully illustrated in the show’s drawings, which detail the cast of characters with wonderful precision. Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z

“For me, it was an epic defeat,” she writes. Jill Abramson’s Book Charts Journalism’s Stormy Seas, With Some Personal Regrets and Score-Settling 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

But forget laying blame for Steven Tyler's epic drug and alcohol abuse on abortion. National Review's crazy Steven Tyler abortion take 2011-05-06T19:01:00Z

There is poetry both epic and lyric, and dance, too, as well as ribald and high comedy. Review | In New York, a blowout, blockbuster retrospective of Bruce Nauman 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

In casual conversation, he recites passages from Auden, Shakespeare, Milton, Anglo-Saxon and South American epics, as if they were written in one book by a single author. A Road Trip With One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Walsh, a Tony winner for the book of the musical “Once,” belongs to that essential school of Irish storytellers whose characters find the epic in the everyday, and the monstrous in the mundane. Review: Dancing to Destruction in Enda Walsh’s Fierce ‘Disco Pigs’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

The complaint called the breach "an epic nightmare, much better suited to a cinematic thriller than real life." Sony hit with lawsuit by former employees over email leaks 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Five recent works made by this compelling process mix portraits of victims of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison and mural paintings of a Cambodian epic poem. Dinh Q. Lê at Shoshana Wayne Gallery: Unspooling the horrors of Vietnam 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

It is a financial failure of epic proportions. What can we learn from the "Dark Phoenix" flop? 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z

Hercules’ epic journey to prove he’s a hero involves quite a few Greek gods — and gospel, they explained, is the music of praying to God. How Do You Stage Disney’s ‘Hercules’? Invite Everyone 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

It seems to have more colours in one spot of its surface than Twombly can muster across an entire epic. The great upstager: how Monet made Turner and Twombly look ordinary 2012-06-19T18:33:01Z

The artworks, most of which have the word “world,” “earth” or “time” in their titles, can be seen as epic, intimate or both. Review | In the galleries: The grid is the primary motif but subject to subtle change 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

She trained with Leopard Aviation, which paired her with instructor Tyler Sinclair, who helped her learn all the intricacies of the cockpit and co-piloted her epic journey. A blind woman just piloted an airplane across the country 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

A photograph on display of young boys in a circle holding hands — later incorporated into the epic — reveals Mucha’s at his most utopian. An Art Nouveau Master Remembered in Prague 2010-09-01T10:00:00Z

His fall was not an epic of greed and ego, but something tawdrier and more pedestrian. | 'Solitary Man': Michael Douglas Tries on Another Slippery Skin 2010-05-20T23:53:00Z

Maybe one day some brave UK TV exec will plough gazillions of pounds into an epic drama that goes on for years. The debate: Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men? 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

But in this ambitious, overstuffed epic, that intriguing idea often gets lost in space. Review: The Math of ‘Foundation’ Doesn’t Add Up 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Like any great epic, “My Struggle” has a monster. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Three’ 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

More than that, he got audiences to buy into Ridley Scott’s handsome swords-and-sandals epic by imbuing his tragic and principled hero with an earnest decency that gives the big-budget genre movie some genuine emotional heft. Top 10 Movie Swordsmen 2011-10-20T09:00:13Z

He combines his archival knowledge and graphic-arts skills to update “Star Wars,” “Spartacus” and other epic underdog fantasies from before his time. Review | In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

The festival announced Wednesday that the Marvel epic will be the festival's closing night film on April 28. 'The Avengers' to close Tribeca Film Festival 2012-03-28T16:29:09Z

Lyndon B. Johnson was an epic pointer, even though every child is told not to do that. A video of Beto O’Rourke’s wild hand gestures went viral. Does distinctive body language help or hurt a candidate? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z

Yes, there is plenty of dialogue in Martin Scorsese’s epic “The Irishman.” What I Learned About Filmmaking From These Oscar Nominees 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

We are given interludes, aftermaths, climaxes without buildups. , in this sense, is a sort of epic in graceful shorthand. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-05-26T13:00:01Z

Great stuff, marred only by a soundtrack seemingly lifted from a Cecil B De Mille biblical epic. TV highlights 04/01/2013 2013-01-03T20:00:01Z

The first is a sombre chamber drama on an epic scale, a narrowly focused historical study dealing with momentous questions of race, national unity and political expediency. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z

The Sheffield Chamber Orchestra accompanied Emily and her band at the Library Theatre for the theatrical and epic set. Tramlines keeps it free for all four years in a row 2012-07-24T06:01:02Z

And then there is the romantic epic Gone with the Wind, which they saw on their first date in 1975. How my husband saw blindness as a ‘dark, paradoxical gift’ 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

The warm voice of the narrator, Barbara Caruso, softens the rough truth of the family’s epic search for a home, which is led by the oldest child, 13-year-old Dicey. Dear Match Book: What Audiobooks Will Liven Up My Summer Road Trips? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

He’s certainly been given plenty of chances: In the last decade, he’s starred in a reboot of the sci-fi classic “Total Recall,” a remake of the vampire comedy “Fright Night” and the swords-and-sandals epic “Alexander.” Ex-bad boy Colin Farrell turns romantic in ‘Winter’s Tale’ 2014-02-14T21:57:23Z

Olivia de Havilland established herself for ever in the film world’s collective memory at the age of 22, as the wise, gentle and beautiful Melanie Hamilton in the colossal epic Gone With the Wind. Olivia de Havilland: Hollywood’s queen of radiant calm 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

"I never really saw myself in a dress before," said Rob Evans, a boxer-turned-model with a square jaw and epic shoulders. Couture ends with revolution, as masses enter show 2011-07-06T22:46:06Z

He gave us all of himself in his epically energetic, beautiful shows. ‘Prince Was Our True Artist’: Readers Share Their Memories 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Several archival displays turn up, including vitrines holding artifacts fabricated in an Art Deco style nearly a century ago for the Egypt of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic silent-movie “The Ten Commandments.” 'Made in L.A. 2016': Hammer Museum biennial proves a thoughtful place to ponder the possibilities 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Given the number of erroneous beliefs about wine that persist, this could have been an epic feast lasting for weeks. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Hunt fashions intricate narrative structures for her stories; they sometimes end up feeling overstuffed, like an epic novel crammed into a dollhouse-sized book. Samantha Hunt’s imagination runs wild in 'The Dark Dark' 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

See the Wiki info on the plot and history of that epic work . Hollywood Ending Near for Orson Welles’s Last Film 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

They chose Webster's tragedy, he said, "because it is so lusciously epic, so rich in its imagery and with such a ludicrously tragic ending". ENO joins pioneering theatre company for East End opera 2010-03-31T14:40:00Z

Coventry's show shares characteristics with Bolton's: tales of empty streets, epic journeys to Wembley and weddings clashing with the big day. We Love You City 2010-10-10T21:31:00Z

“It would take that kind of role, in that kind of movie. A positive, heroic role, in an epic movie,” he says. Will Hollywood Ever Produce Another Arab Star Like Omar Sharif? 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

The predecessor to “Endgame,” last year’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” left audiences with an epic cliffhanger in which many of the superheroes appeared to turn to dust, and fans are anxious to see what’s next. End of 'Avengers' movies cloaked in high-level Hollywood secrecy 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Fehér builds up his nightmare using visual techniques that are redolent of his countryman and sometime collaborator, the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, who is best known for his formally and philosophically challenging epics. ‘Twilight’ Review: Film Noir in the Hungarian Hills 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

That scene haunts me now, a week after the hurricane, a shadowy afterimage to the bright, restored Manhattan, epic and dazzling on the horizon like the last glittering ship to abandon a dying planet. Modern Love: A Disaster Scenario, Rewritten 2012-12-06T19:38:13Z

Tomlinson, still in bloodied Minotaur garb and wielding a big knife, yet beguiling as ever, was well and truly the icing on his own epic cake. Otello; The Minotaur – review 2013-01-20T00:07:21Z

Each play was an intracranial epic, a succession of impossibly tall stories that liberated the theatre from plodding linearity and mendacious cause and effect. Simon Callow remembers Snoo Wilson: his work was 'the stuff of dreams' 2013-07-05T16:51:22Z

True schadenfreude is built on seeing your fellow humans fail with epic splendor. Finding the Comedy in Tween Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Yes, but not because of what happened with his parents: the 16-year-old Spielberg had a crisis of confidence after seeing David Lean’s epic “Lawrence of Arabia.” ‘The Fabelmans’: What’s Real and What’s Fictional 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

Panoramic views are so clear and stunning you have to rub your eyes to make sure you’re not in a Hollywood epic. Next Stop: Switzerland?s Little-Known Lower Engadine 2010-05-05T21:07:00Z

This coming of age story of the socially conscious rap artist, Common, is an autobiography that reads like a novel, or perhaps an epic poem. Kathryn Erskine's top 10 first person narratives 2012-02-09T12:13:49Z

Why does no one ever play it?" marshy15:"Nine years old and transported to an epic world of endless possibilities. Sixty years of No 1s - readers' picks 2012-06-08T13:27:00Z

Fast forward to January and a dozen Academy Award nominations for the 150-minute epic and another accolade has emerged: nap worthy, with and without apologies from the snoozy to Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis. Envelope, please: Oscar leaders deemed nap-worthy 2013-02-12T16:19:08Z

It wears its genre badge proudly but isn't confined by it, and it often feels more like a fable or cautionary tale than a straightforward sword-and-sorcery epic. How "Game of Thrones" slew all comers 2011-06-17T18:01:00Z

It’s an addicting epic about disaster and, more important, what leads to disaster. Why tell an Iraq war story backwards? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Patterned after Milton’s “Paradise Lost” and inspired by the poetry of William Blake, “His Dark Materials” lays claim to an epic stage. Philip Pullman’s ‘Daemon Voices’ Casts an Entrancing Spell 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Its 2012 release, “The 2nd Law,” cavorted in the band’s most epic spaces yet, complete with disco and dubstep interjections; the topically titled follow-up, “Drones,” is to be released in June. Pop & Rock Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The epic journey ends with - spoiler alert! - the main character becoming a flag pole. Philly library features Colbert with Joyce, Sendak 2012-07-31T09:16:04Z

The deeply personal drama from writer-director Malick is told in an epic range of impressionistic exchanges and images: from grand cosmic visuals to the age of the dinosaurs to tender family moments. Terrence Malick back in Cannes with 'Tree of Life' 2011-05-16T12:01:05Z

It's the sound of pop music fading away on the way to turning into something else, pop in a state of suspended animation, perhaps an epic attempt to recapture some necessary form of innocence. Paul Morley's Showing Off ... Darkstar 2010-10-01T17:38:00Z

That epic campaign comes alive in “The Guns at Last Light,” the third and final volume of Rick Atkinson’s magisterial “Liberation Trilogy.” ‘Last Light’: Spellbinding close to Rick Atkinson WWII trilogy 2013-05-22T23:09:50Z

In his staging, Niesen retains Brecht’s title cards, the expository bits of narrative announcing what will transpire in each of the 12 scenes in this tedious two-and-a-half-hour epic. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

His movies aren't great epics, they take place in a day or two days, usually, and the characters in those movies really do take their lives day by day. Jason Diamond on accidentally writing his memoir, 'Searching for John Hughes' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

We see her first in a crowd of other extras, hilariously bellowing "a miracle, a miracle" in a sword and sandal epic about the exploits of some second-tier saint. 'The Passionate Thief' as laugh-out-loud funny now as in 1960 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The director and voice actors of How to Train Your Dragon 2 talk about their epic animated adventure, the second film to be based on the fantasy novels of Britain's Cressida Cowell. Dragon sequel 'richer' than original 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

The Philippines' submission - Norte, the End of History, an epic drama partly inspired by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment - runs 250 minutes. Foreign film Oscar hopefuls unveiled 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

When the documentary filmmaker Brett Morgen hit his eighth month of writer’s block on an epic project about David Bowie, he decided it was time to hit the road. A Filmmaker Explores David Bowie’s Life and Finds Clarity About His Own 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

I must admit that I’m slightly less impressed, and see this edition as far inferior to Sam Raimi’s epic Spider-Man 2. The Amazing Spider-Man Crafts Hollywood's Greatest 3D Sequence Yet 2012-07-09T12:00:15Z

Swift, 20, told the crowd that "Love Story" was inspired by the "one epic teenage tantrum that I ever threw my whole life," after her parents disapproved of a boy she was interested in. John Fogerty philosophical after Nashville floods 2010-05-19T08:51:00Z

In this animated movie, a conflicted hero and dreamer embarks on an epic quest through magical worlds to rescue his one true love and defend his village. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The writers of the zombie apocalypse epic changed the origin of the virus from China in Max Brooks’s book to Russia in the Brad Pitt-led film. Wang Jianlin: does China's richest man have a plan to take over Hollywood? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The piece is epic, it's so operatic in its theatricality. ENO joins pioneering theatre company for East End opera 2010-03-31T14:40:00Z

China's Xu Fan was best actress for playing a grieving mother in the earthquake epic "Aftershock." 'Uncle' named best film at Asian Film Awards 2011-03-21T15:25:12Z

That epic journey is chronicled in Jacob Lawrence's remarkable series of 60 tempera paintings currently being shown at New York's Museum of Modern Art. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

FilmStruck’s Criterion Channel has the director Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 epic, “King of Kings,” which proved a seminal influence on the mainstream Bible picture. From ‘Ben-Hur’ to ‘Hop,’ Slim Pickings From the Easter Bunny’s Basket 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

She went on to sing a program of Holiday-associated songs, many of which she and her phenomenal band infused with an epic sense of expressive possibility. Music Review | Dee Dee Bridgewater: A Woman and Her Band Commune With a Legend 2010-02-19T06:19:00Z

In neither case was the fledgling director daunted by either Douglas's star wattage or the epic scale of the undertaking. Is Christopher Nolan the new Stanley Kubrick? 2010-07-15T16:15:00Z

Yet her triumph was not taken as an epic achievement for women in sports. Ye Shiwen swims like a girl 2012-08-02T15:25:00Z

“He’s writing an epic that points to itself and says, ‘Hey look, I’m in the process of creating a national myth,’” she said. Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

The novel is driven by a sense of wonder—the protagonist’s—that its teeming adventures and wild coincidences could fit together in the brief but epic span of one young man’s coming of age. Review: The Wan Faithfulness That Made “The Goldfinch” Movie a Flop 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

While the film is about an ancient epic journey, for many reasons, it feels more relevant than ever. "It would change our politics": Emilio Estevez on why we should all take a pilgrimage 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

If… continues, gloriously, but what made me laugh most in this election were Bell's ambitious, indeed epic, creations for the comment pages. Steve Bell: a grotesque eye on history 2010-05-10T10:05:00Z

“I’m Not a Man,” at nearly eight minutes, might have been the album’s epic, like one of the imposingly long songs on “Southpaw Grammar,” from 1995. Morrissey Releases ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

The New Mexico Film Office announced Tuesday that principal photography for the frontier epic "Hostiles" will begin this month. New Mexico to provide backdrop for new film 'Hostiles' 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

The expansion from 1 missing girl to a massive secret operation stretches believability automatically but the epic nature of the Good Vs. Shelter by Harlan Coben - review 2012-06-20T14:00:00Z

Thank you, Mr. Rumsfeld — who, if he went to a movie this weekend, probably saw the Roman epic The Eagle, which at the moment is hiding in a secure location: ninth place. Box Office: Unknown No. 1, Is Number Four No. 2? 2011-02-20T14:05:00Z

PS I Love You: A Canadian guitar-drums duo that delivers concise pop songs with epic guitar strokes. Tonight's top show: PS I Love You at Schubas 2011-09-27T05:12:00Z

Homer begins his epic “in medias res” — in the middle of things. ‘Meanwhile, back at the ranch’ and other storytelling tricks explained in ‘Plots’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, his son went on to study at the Drama Centre in north London, dropping out before graduating after being cast in Steven Spielberg's epic Second World War television mini-series, Band of Brothers. Michael Fassbender 2012-05-19T23:03:25Z

The debate over how to manage its density, poverty and infrastructure sets the stage for an epic struggle between journalist-activist Jane Jacobs and midcentury “power broker” and “master builder” Robert Moses. Bottoms up: Jane Jacobs, Roberts Moses and “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

But the recent success of James Cameron's sci-fi epic "Avatar" proved that Hollywood blockbusters can generate earnings on the same scale in China as they do domestically. China to import hit sci-fi thriller 'Inception' 2010-08-03T10:01:00Z

"But this story is too epic, and there are too many locations and too much history to ignore." 'Empire's' multi-level set a featured player in musical at La Mirada Theatre 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

Critics have praised Croft’s nimble rendering of Tokarczuk’s sprawling epic, calling her translation “ebullient” and “wondrous.” Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

We readily recognize these incidents as stupid mistakes—epic blunders. The science behind facepalming: Why you make breathtakingly stupid mistakes 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Its epic drought dried up whole stretches of river; fish cannot reach the ocean. This is California in the era of Trump 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

It was an embarrassment of riches, and then his book is a 600-page sprawling epic, if you will. "The moment blew my mind": Son of Sam serial killer may not have acted alone, says new Netflix show 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Star Wars” debuted with a threat of epic installments. The End of Endings 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

He cautiously compared it to Steven Spielberg’s own war epic: “It was always our expectation to be slightly more ‘Shawshank Redemption’ than ‘Saving Private Ryan.’ A Cast and Crew’s Commitment to Making ‘Devotion’ 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

In Sheffield, they performed Mapping the Edge, an epic journey across the city by bus and tram; and in North Yorkshire, the hugely evocative Mulgrave, which explored the legends and stories connected with Mulgrave Woods. Walking theatre must look where it's going 2010-09-20T16:21:00Z

Grieve and lament as Target Margin’s five-hour staging of this Eugene O’Neill epic, inspired by Aeschylus’ tragedies and relocated to post-Civil War America, finishes its run. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

But then, aged 11, it was everything I wanted from a romantic epic and more. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Titanic 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Sometimes his poems were epic—vast in subject or in scale—but they were still poems, not narrative. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

"With Freddie singing and all of us playing... they're quite beautiful. It's kind of the big, big ballad and the big, big epic sound." Brian May confirms new Queen album 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

When it comes to inherited conventions regarding race in epic fantasy, “Game of Thrones” is, in a sense, standing on the shoulders of dwarfs. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z

His latest film, The Mechanic, is released this week, while another, Roman epic The Eagle, will be released in the US next month and in the UK in March. Sutherland gets Walk of Fame star next to son 2011-01-27T09:02:32Z

“My goal is just to up the epic feeling,” he told me. ‘The Ascent’: Levitating in Brooklyn 2012-06-22T19:27:36Z

Leigh Fermor's epic life might almost seem too big and bold for mere biography. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

Remarkably, Richard's array of sonic weapons matches her epic, elemental vision. Dawn Richard: Goldenheart – review 2013-01-17T21:45:01Z

History Of The World is the perfect fit for BBC1 – it's bold, it's visually spectacular and it's truly epic in scale. Andrew Marr to take on History of the World for BBC 2010-11-22T15:04:00Z

But what we are offering is so new and extraordinary, I think the public is on our side and understands this is the beginning of an epic production journey.” The Gods Are Stranded as Set Misfires 2010-09-28T22:00:00Z

Star Trek actor George Takei has hit out at claims by a Marvel screenwriter that the studio “whitewashed” a traditionally Tibetan character in forthcoming superhero epic Doctor Strange to appease China. George Takei on Doctor Strange controversy: 'Marvel must think we're all idiots' 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

On the walls of the long narrow space, epic history and local memory mix. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

It's an epic evening – even if ultimately the parts seem greater than the whole. Table – review 2013-04-14T16:53:20Z

The suds flow freely in this slap-happy hybrid of “All That Heaven Allows,” one of Sirk’s classic Technicolor soaps from the 1950s, and “Paradise Lost,” the epic poem that made Milton famous for eternity. Theater Review | 'Whatever, Heaven Allows': If Douglas Sirk and Milton Walked Into a Bar and Started Trading Yarns 2010-02-24T22:27:00Z

Apart from the facade of dangling boats, which is titled "Reframe", the exhibition includes Lego-block portraits of four Florentine dissidents of the past, including Dante Alighieri, author of the mediaeval epic poem "The Divine Comedy". Boats evoking refugees hang from Italy palace in Ai Weiwei installation 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

His next major work was a departure: the epic, 600-page novel “Tree of Smoke.” Award-winning author Denis Johnson dies at age 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

“The event, epic size, quality of that trickles down to the excitement for the film in all other mediums, down to when somebody’s watching on their telephone,” Nolan said. For ‘Oppenheimer,’ These Fans Go to Great Lengths for Just 30 Screens 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

At the same time Ms. Stenham — in “That Face” and her second play, “Tusk Tusk” — is proving to be a portraitist of epically dysfunctional British families. Mother Trouble in Polly Stenham?s ?That Face? 2010-05-29T02:30:00Z

The Emmys conversation is dominated, of course, by Game of Thrones, HBO’s decade-defining, lavish fantasy epic that wrapped after eight sprawling seasons this spring. Emmys 2019 predictions: who will win, and who should win? 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

"I am beyond thrilled to be reunited with partners from film, theatre and television for this epic project and delighted to be working for the first time with Netflix," he said. Netflix to adapt Elizabeth II play 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the post-9/11 age, Americans wanted villains to defeat but the actual villainy quickly became too complicated for the epic tales required for real catharsis. Forget Halloween. TV shows have thrills and chills all year-round 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

In a recent interview with The New York Times, he defined his own approach when he called his masterpiece, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” an “intimate epic.” Television Review: ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ Has Its Premiere on HBO 2012-05-27T22:40:54Z

Let Me In closes the album in darkly shimmering style, the epic climax to 43 minutes of discoid posturing and deathless yearning. New band of the day ? No 1,086: Class Actress 2011-08-17T16:54:00Z

It was up against nine other films in contention for best-produced film on Saturday, including female-led comedy "Bridesmaids," civil rights drama "The Help," and Steven Spielberg's epic tale "War Horse." "The Artist" wins over producers at Guild Awards 2012-01-22T08:24:30Z

The game will take a different track than "The Stick of Truth," a parody of fantasy epics such as "Lord of the Rings." E3: 'South Park' sets sights on superhero genre with a new game 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

It's a long book, but I'm fond of an epic myself. Paperback Q&A: JJ Connolly on Viva La Madness 2012-07-17T14:29:30Z

He understands this better than most, given his experience making “The Golden Compass,” a $180 million epic starring Nicole Kidman, based on the first novel in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy. The Weitz Brothers Help Each Other Through Hollywood Hits and Misses 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

She ornamented De Mille-style antique epics like The Robe and The Egyptian, which required only that she look good and speak well. 2010-01-24T20:25:00Z

I am not one of those rhapsodising about this 'splendid epic' and this 'rare and extreme experience'. Cannes winner Uncle Boonmee panned by French film critics 2010-09-01T16:11:00Z

It was even more stunning in person, yards of velvet-studded netting and beads that folded and draped into a robe of epic effect. From Ride Share to Rickshaw: Wedding-Shopping Adventures in India 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Never embarrassingly hip and always informative, the guilty pleasure was waiting for the Heath Robinson-esque demonstrations to fail, epically. Six to watch: science shows 2010-09-22T12:19:00Z

Yet I will forever be inspired by his nobility, his grace and his epic talent. Comedian Patrice O'Neal dies, had suffered stroke 2011-11-30T20:57:50Z

“Winter is coming,” goes the Stark family motto in HBO’s fantasy epic Games of Thrones. Shannon Purser: ‘People have actually had Barb’s face tattooed on their bodies’ 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

In Washington, “every night was epic, honey,” he said. The renaissance of drag queen legend Kevin Aviance 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

And I mean all kinds of narratives: classical epics and homey fairy tales, barroom ballads and chronicles of hopeless love, multigenerational family sagas and ghost stories with a body count. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Similar subjects have been conventional in American Photorealist paintings since the 1960s, but Trujillo lavishes such extreme care and attention on his epic yet unsightly vistas that they seem somehow excruciating. 'The Gildless Age': A different tale of the '1 percent' at the Torrance Art Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

These 11 states grow more than 80 percent of U.S. corn, mostly without irrigation, and right now half of them are severely suffering from the epic drought. Food corporations’ big drought play 2012-08-09T21:35:00Z

Not so long ago, historical epics like “Roots” and “The Winds of War” were perennials at the top of the best-seller lists. International Thrillers Favor Trysts over Treason 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Get carried away by another historical novel bound by music, Madeleine Thien’s tragic epic set in Vancouver and China, “Do Not Say We Have Nothing.” O Canada! What Should I Read? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

“I think we’re going to have an epic battle in the next six months for the definition of this party,” he says. Anti-Trump Republican Adam Kinzinger accepts his fate, whatever it is 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

He had just finished an unprecedented feat of conducting cycles of Mahler's nine epic symphonies in L.A. and Caracas over a month, dividing the scores between the L.A. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

"It's about celebration, but really transitioning to the next phase. It was the last epic story from the editorial team based in New York City." DC Comics hopes move to Burbank energizes superheroes 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Science also suggests the elderly are well placed to work on epic projects, rather than on radical innovation. Age shall not wither us: why great art isn't the sole preserve of the young 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

No matter what the weather, in a country as vast as Australia, an epic road trip is a traveler’s rite of passage, if only to get a sense of the scope of the place. In Australia, Driving the Great Ocean Road 2011-04-08T19:24:55Z

Here are five of my favourites: 2012 saw the epic conclusion to the Dark Knight trilogy, and with it one of the best trailers of recent years. Clip joint: Top film trailers of 2012 2013-01-02T16:34:10Z

The show takes as its starting point a Chinese fable based on the story of Xuanzang, the monk who made an epic overland journey to India to bring back venerated Buddhist texts. Chen Shi-Zheng’s Road to ‘Monkey: Journey to the West’ 2013-07-04T20:05:44Z

“The Birth of a Nation,” one of the founding documents of Hollywood cinema, is far less liberal, by any measure, than the “Ring,” an epic of godly greed and corruption. A Closer Look at Wagner and #OscarsSoWhite 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Train robbery is a good subject for an Old-West epic, and the sepia-esque colors of the film are also a nice touch. Today's Movie Trailer: The Lone Ranger 2012-10-03T16:00:00Z

The low-grade insomnia I’d battled since age 10 ratcheted itself up to epic proportions. I was a sober college student 2012-09-23T16:01:00Z

The epic skyline is a goad, a reminder that not that far away important things are going on without you. Inside ‘Not Fade Away,’ From David Chase 2012-12-05T13:48:48Z

Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings epic fantasy series. PRISM Speculation and The Lord of the Rings: The ‘Palantir’ Connection 2013-06-07T19:28:07Z

The owner is Anders Hansson, a warm host with an epic beard and a burly stature that suggests he can trace his lineage back to the Vikings. Fresh, local and unpretentious: A Swedish city with a stirring culinary scene 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Darius Milhaud's "L'Orestie d'Eschyle," the French composer's epic early 20th century take on "The Oresteia," has only now been recorded in full, a document of a performance at the University of Michigan last year. Holiday music gifts: Leave the best for last-minute 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Jet-lagged American Airlines passengers can see his most epic works as they stagger into the arrivals hall at JFK airport in New York: a 397ft panoramic mural called Skyline of the World. New York City views 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z

What we said: A Jacobean western that is also an American epic set mostly in just one room: intimate yet gigantic. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

It definitely had the right stuff for cable TV, however, where it played over and over for decades, chopped through with equally epic commercial breaks. Review | Whatever ‘The Right Stuff’ is, this Disney Plus adaptation could use more of it 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

There’s always room for greater versions of greatness, and its entirely probable that the world will gather around some other epic yet to be written, told stupendously on TV or in film. "Game of Thrones" in the year of the pop culture apocalypse: What happens next? 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

In the wake of the aforementioned fantasy blockbusters, it's fairly obvious to anyone with half a brain that US audiences quite like their fantasy epics served up with British accents. Jack the Giant Slayer: big news or the height of nonsense? 2012-11-23T15:16:42Z

May kicked the station off April 11 with Jimi Hendrix's epic rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" followed by Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Mike McCready and friends raise funds for Crohn's research 2012-05-29T02:03:04Z

The challenge for “The Rings of Power” will be to humanize its epic sweep and spotlight characters the audience can identify with. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’: The Reviews Are in 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

The painting is just over four feet square, but it feels extravagant, even epic. Peter Paul Rubens was a brilliant sensationalist 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s possible the event will never again be quite as epic. The rise and fall — or maybe rebirth? — of the White House correspondents’ dinner 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Nancy Pearl interviews Jonathan Evison about writing his Olympic Peninsula-based novel, "West of Here," an epic tale of discovery and the relationship between man and nature, ranging from the late 19th century to the present. "Book Lust with Nancy Pearl," featuring Jonathan Evison 2011-03-23T19:33:54Z

According to our reviewer, Dana Thomas, Postrel’s account is “a journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself.” New in Paperback: ‘The Fabric of Civilization’ and ‘The National Road’ 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

And, indeed, these two sites in the southwest of England are epic and romantic, the stuff of myth and mystery. The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

These quick recalibrations—from contemporary realism to suspense to epic—convey bravura, a giddy sense of possibility, a love of story. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

There’s no better film on food, family and empathy than Wayne Wang’s epic about two generations who reconcile their differences over sesame balls and stuffed crab. The Best Thanksgiving Movies to Stream 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

The novelist, who had worked on the script of the 1959 blockbuster Ben-Hur, conceived the film as an epic of imperial decadence. Penthouse's Bob Guccione: The Dark Prince of Porn 2010-10-21T08:45:00Z

The epic Siberian Breaks crams half a dozen genres into an absorbing pocket symphony. MGMT: Congratulations 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z

"Mad Men" also aired right after HBO's hourlong ratings juggernaut, fantasy epic "Game of Thrones." 'Mad Men' premiere draws 2.3 million, lowest season debut since 2008 2014-04-14T20:46:32Z

Through all the cringing, there’s the comfort that many have had experiences like Jim’s, but nothing so epically hapless and clumsy, and no heart-to-hearts with Dad afterwards to heighten the agony. American Pie at 20: why the raucous comedy could never be made today 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

Like Vuorensola, American animator Nina Paley ignored traditional distribution methods and released her film, Sita Sings the Blues, a comic adaptation of the Hindu epic, The Ramayana, directly online earlier this year. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z

"Flying Swords of Dragon Gate": Jet Li stars in this new martial-arts epic. Weekend Preview: Beaches' last hurrah, plus art, jazz and wine 2012-08-29T21:41:05Z

Titled “On the Silver Globe” and mounted on an epic scale, it followed the adventures of marooned astronauts contending with telepathic humanoid birds, amphibious mud people and their own mutant descendants. Andrzej Zulawski, Rebellious Film Director, Dies at 75 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

The frontman's personal favorites on the album are "Patrolling Days" for its "epic quality" and "Midnight Shifter," which reinvents energetic soul music from 1960s America. Rockers The Hives lay down the law for "Lex Hives" 2012-06-14T20:27:11Z

It’s a fantastic story, an epic—long and twisting, full of tension and surprise, with well-developed characters and distinct rivalries. Félix Auger-Aliassime Is Trying to Stay Calm 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

DVD, Second Run Heimat The first two series of the seriously epic German TV drama. This week's new DVD and Blu-ray releases 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

In writing “Vanderbilt,” did you look to other multigenerational family epics as models? Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Six takes later that essential ingredient is baked in and Dylan, astonishingly, moves on to the first take of perhaps his most literary epic, “Desolation Row.” Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

In the sweep of Bradley’s epic vision, Fox Rich is both a Penelope and an Odysseus for America’s dark odyssey. ‘Time’ Review: What We Really Mean When We Say Mass Incarceration 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The women of America are currently engaged in a notebook dump of epic proportions, releasing the anecdotes they’ve been carrying since puberty. Who’s next? A moment of reckoning for men — and the behavior we can no longer ignore. 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

This may sound like the back story for an epic trilogy. Dungeons & Dragons Remake Uses Players? Input 2012-01-09T13:00:00Z

Maybe you need a sweet tooth to get full value from this, but there is nothing soft-centred about her versions of What Now, My Love or the Shangri-Las' epic Past, Present and Future. Thank you for the solo music, Agnetha 2011-01-03T16:54:08Z

Sky's fantasy epic Game of Thrones is in the running for best international show, along with The Bridge, Girls and the espionage thriller Homeland. Bafta nominations: three for Olympics – but four for Twenty Twelve 2013-04-09T20:43:43Z

“The narrative of immigration is the epic narrative of this millennium,” she wrote in an autobiographical statement for the reference work Contemporary Authors in 2005. Bharati Mukherjee, Writer of Immigrant Life, Dies at 76 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

Giuseppe died believing “The Leopard” would never be published, though a coda with the elderly Giò in 2003 reminds us that it was published posthumously, became a bestseller and was made into an epic film. Review | The dying author of ‘The Leopard’ finds new life in ‘Lampedusa’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Eggers wrote the screenplay with the Icelandic poet Sjón, so we can surely expect an epic with epic writing to match. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2022 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z

These extraordinary noises were backed by traditional fiddle and lute, and the epic songs sounded like country music from the forests and plains of their homeland. Womad festival 2013-07-29T09:54:17Z

But this outing does not suffer the epic badness one associates with films that aren’t screened early for critics, and in fact it offers moments of actual entertainment. Brett Ratner’s ‘Hercules’ is actually entertaining in places

No one who had the luck, connections or cash to be there that epic night will fail to remember it – it was a hurricane. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

It's vernacular photography on a truly grand scale, as well as a kind of epic, deliberately amateurish farewell to the age of analogue. Format international photography festival – review 2013-03-10T00:05:49Z

Year after bruising year, Mr. Palmer kept his sights on these grim battles, an epic endeavor that suggests that looking away was never an option. | 'Knuckle': ?Knuckle,? Documentary About Fighting Irish Travelers - Review 2011-12-09T02:03:03Z

In the goofball epic “Elephant Room: Dust From the Stars,” three endearingly dorky magicians travel from their basement rec rooms to outer space, where they end up discovering a mysterious “gathering place.” Review: This ‘Elephant Room’ Sequel Is a Goofball Epic 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Once a fan fiction scenario gains enough momentum to achieve escape velocity, it is elevated into mainstream tabloids, which are rife with reports of Depp’s courtroom flirtations and epic witness-stand one-liners. TikTok’s Amber Heard Hate Machine 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Pullman’s series — consisting of “The Golden Compass,” “The Subtle Knife” and “The Amber Spyglass” — essentially reimagines Milton’s epic poem, “Paradise Lost.” ‘His Dark Materials’: Witches, Quests and Talking Animals 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Salman Rushdie adapts and narrates his epic Indian novel, but that balance between magical fable and socio-political history proves harder to strike on screen. This week's new films 2012-12-29T00:05:51Z

She began using these rollers when she shifted to epic scale in paintings of shipwrecks, including one modeled on “The Raft of the Medusa,” by Théodore Géricault, shown at the Paula Cooper gallery last year. Cecily Brown’s Paintings Are at the (Other) Met 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Instead, Leon glumly sits before his manuscript, squinting at the sun and swatting at flies, a monument to the epic narcissism that will isolate him, and generate both cruel comedy and heartbreak. ‘Afire’ Review: His Flaws Are Petty, Pathetic and Funny 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

It is the standout feature in the epic Space Race exhibition that opens at the National Space Centre this weekend. Dogs in space: a cosmonaut's best friend 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

Mr. Shaffer, who found critical and popular favor on London’s West End and on Broadway, wrote 18 plays that encompassed tragedy and comedy, horror and farce, the epic and the quotidian, history and the present. Peter Shaffer, acclaimed British playwright of ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus,’ dies at 90 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Allstar If you wish to make a movie about the collapse of an age-old social order, it helps if you have enough money to convey the epic grandeur and sweep of such an event. Luchino Visconti's The Leopard cost a fortune and it was worth every penny 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

But with “Rhapsody,” the break was epic, noisy and permissive. Jennifer Bartlett, Conceptual Painter on a Vast Scale, Dies at 81 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

The play lasts only 47 minutes, but it is epic in every way, and in a good production this glimpse into a dystopian future will chill to the marrow. Sherlock Holmes, The History Boys, Race: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-05-18T05:00:15Z

In these books, James functions as an omniscient designer-director and as an intimate portraitist, blocking out complex compositions with epic precision and pushing figures forward for expressively pitiless close-ups. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

But the crime lords never participated in anything this epic without their overlords -- the CIA, their longtime partners in crime. The coverup continues: The Kennedys in Hollywood 2011-04-01T14:01:00Z

In its tremendous, almost apocalyptic action sequences, “The Dark Knight Rises” suggests a reverse-engineered version of a Soviet-era revolutionary epic, in which the masses are the villains and their onetime overlords the heroes. “The Dark Knight Rises”: Christopher Nolan’s evil masterpiece 2012-07-18T20:50:00Z

Mr. Denk argues that the Ives sonatas, composed early in the 20th century, are mistakenly categorized as avant-garde works rather than “epic Romantic sonatas with Lisztian thematic transformations.” Taming Ives With Head, Heart and Humor 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

“Hercules,” a Paramount Pictures release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “epic battle sequences, violence, suggestive comments, brief strong language and partial nudity.” Review: ‘Hercules’ is schlocky but entertaining 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

The , a theatrical tradition dating back to the 14th Century, are resurrected in an epic production involving 1,700 enthusiastic local people. Theatre review of 2012 2012-12-28T07:52:36Z

Things had changed in Phong Nha and he was uncertain about the future, “My biggest concern is that our vision of an epic unique tourism destination turns into a big mess,” he said. Exploring Spectacular Caves in a Quiet Corner of Vietnam 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Enhanced by the varying tempo of a lone piano accompaniment, it is a style that might be called epic picturesque. Review: ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Is a Transfixing Epic of Riches and Ruin 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

No one does epic better than the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ‘Age of Empires’: How 2 Dynasties of Art Forged China’s Identity 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Godzilla and King Kong have got to be the best-known names of kaiju in the world, so we know that a movie that features both characters will be nothing short of epic. "Godzilla vs. Kong" and a Tina Turner doc highlight what's new on HBO Max in March 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

Bored children in a wintry town begin an epic snowball fight to amuse themselves during vacation, and soon things get out of hand. Movie Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

It is an epic sunny day with working ferries chugging up and down the Hudson, toy boats at this distance. The Actor Michael Cera Is Now Writing and Directing, Too 2013-07-03T12:00:01Z

An Asian historical epic with a strong resemblance to the futuristic “Avatar.” The Carpetbagger: ?A Separation? and ?In Darkness? on Oscar Foreign Shortlist 2012-01-19T00:00:11Z

In opera, with its dizzying ambitions, epic lead-times and viperish politics, the stakes are celestial — and the scale and complexity of the “Ring” ratchets everything up even further. The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Its flesh may be gorgeously laced with ivory-colored fat, but when you place a piece of it in your mouth, the flavor tells the story of its Beckettian life: epic boredom. T Magazine: Fly Zone 2011-03-21T14:00:14Z

The saga concluded as a thrilling wartime epic, one of the greatest large-scale battle movies of the 21st century. Robert Pattinson as "The Batman" tells Hollywood stars: Choose your directors first 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

In addition to FX's marquee summer project, TNT is rolling out the apocalyptic epic "The Last Ship." No summer vacation for network TV; it has big plans instead 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

It’s rare that a big budget sci-fi epic is included in awards talk, but just two years ago, Gravity proved it can be done. Oscars 2016: a look at early frontrunners after the Toronto film festival 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

I am taking inspiration for these two recipes from the two tips of Europe: Sweden at the very north for my “epic” recipe and Sicily in the south for the everyday version. Salmon, Two Ways: One Epic, One Everyday 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

The epic scale that superficially unites the films, then, is a product of the need to put bums on seats. Ridley Scott on making blockbusters: ‘It is bloody brain surgery!’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Ted Hughes's unfinished Crow poems are a dark, gurgling exploration of birth, death and the quest for love, taking the form of a fragmented and epic folk story. Crow – review 2012-06-25T17:22:12Z

Another of his earlier productions, "The Rap Guide to Evolution," took a more scientific slant with a lyrical breakdown of Charles Darwin's theory and its epic conflict with creationism. Review: DJ Baba Brinkman mixes Darwin and dating 2012-12-06T01:30:13Z

It reads like a timeline for an epic tale of psychedelic paranoia by Thomas Pynchon. Art In Review: JONAH FREEMAN AND JUSTIN LOWE: ‘Stray Light Grey’ 2012-09-27T20:04:50Z

It is an epic finale - as well as the first of the movie series released in 3D - and fans' expectations are high. Malfoy actors talk good, evil as Potter saga ends 2011-07-07T11:55:08Z

All I know is, I’m going to be happy, I’m sure, because these guys will write a very great and awesome epic ending. “Breaking Bad”: “He’s a pure psychopath” 2012-07-22T19:00:00Z

Nobody gets a giant, painful zit or has to spend two friggin' hours trying to scam a ride to one of the epic parties that's always happening someplace. "Skins'" salacious teen thrills 2011-01-18T16:53:00Z

“Put them in Charlie Chaplin's epic theater after a black-and-white Iranian Vampire western film?” Sundance Next Fest brings movies and music together in L.A. Aug 7-10 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Italian director Sergio Leone never saw the American version of his final film, the 1984 gangster epic "Once Upon a Time in America," starring Robert De Niro. Sergio Leone's original 'Once Upon a Time in America' out on DVD 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

A little girl in North Carolina recently received an epic surprise when she was visited by firefighters and a police officer on her quarantine birthday. Girl, 5, surprised on quarantine birthday with visit from first responders: 'She just went nuts' 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Young arrived in Manchester, capital of the Industrial Revolution, in 1840 in time to witness the formation of the National Charter Association, the first working-class political party, amidst epic social turmoil.  Mitt Romney: Disgrace to Mormonism 2012-10-28T23:00:00Z

And when Alex Ross of the New Yorker wrote a piece last year comparing Williams to Wagner — the use of themes extending over an epic cycle of works — I suddenly wanted to play along. Perspective | As a classical music critic, I used to think the ‘Star Wars’ score was beneath me. I was wrong. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

The Daily Beast dubbed it “an epic fail.” It’s time to call foul on the cruelty of beauty pageants: Trump may not own the Miss Universe pageant anymore, but his dehumanizing worldview permeates all beauty pageants 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

The tragic tale was epic: The Greeks were thwarted in their attempts to escape an essential port city cordoned off and being starved by the Ottomans, who were led by a tactically brilliant Egyptian general. Delacroix's 'Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi' as a rallying cry 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

The Appleton restaurant staff celebrated their Christmas party in January, where some epic prizes were raffled off, including a silver Hyundai. Wisconsin Chick-fil-A employee gifts car to colleague who was riding bike to work: 'Not a second thought' 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

The lodge offers epic kayaking excursions around the peninsula. What a Coup: Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula 2011-03-24T13:30:00Z

"I think it's hilarious and I think it's epic and I think it's vast and I won't tell you any more." Doctor Who returns with James Bond-style opening episode 2013-03-18T07:00:21Z

So is the really epic drama he distills from stripped-down, nearly abstract images. Review: ‘One-Way Ticket’ at MoMA Reunites Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Paintings 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The epic retelling of the Bible story left teen sci-fi Divergent floundering in its wake, consigned to fourth place with a first weekend tally of £1.76m. Macaws challenge Marvel at UK cinemas 2014-04-09T14:59:36Z

The ancient Roman siege of the fortified city of Masada came to an epically tragic end when more than 900 Jewish defenders chose suicide over surrender. Masada in CBS' 'The Dovekeepers': Bad storytelling in every way 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

“She survived Covid, came out, and recorded ‘Lady of Shallot,’” Ellis said shaking his head, referring to the 12-minute Tennyson epic. She’s Marianne Faithfull, Damn It. And She’s (Thankfully) Still Here. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Martin Freeman, of Lord of the Rings and The Office fame, combined his two most iconic roles into one epic sketch as host of Saturday Night Live this weekend. Watch 'SNL' Take 'The Office' to Middle Earth 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

It was at once an epic quest, a story about love and friendship, and a modern-day homage to the western. Steve Dillon, Comic Artist Who Helped Create ‘Preacher,’ Dies at 54 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Back then I hadn’t yet read those lines in the epic poem “Paterson” by William Carlos Williams, the pediatrician-poet who lived a short drive away and made house calls in the city. In Undiscovered Paterson, Falls, Food and Fetty Wap 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Derek’s own way with words was at once epic and immediate, physical, literal, abstract, lyrical, guttural. The Problem with Poetry Students, and Other Lessons from Derek Walcott 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

The last thing in the show is a one-line quote from her, saying that Orbison wrote epics. Clive James: ‘If I were a pop star, I’d sing like Johnny Cash’ 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

“Carlos,” Olivier Assayas’s epic and wildly entertaining bio of the terrorist mastermind, also arrives that day, along with “The Ma & Pa Kettle Complete Comedy Collection” from Universal. The New Season DVDs: New DVDs: ?Citizen Kane,? ?Going Places,? ?Birth of a Nation? 2011-09-18T00:13:03Z

Although Team GB had been the favourite to win, they were beaten by South Africa in an epic tussle. Olympic rowers visit EastEnders 2012-09-14T12:31:05Z

“Don’t let his epic charm fool you,” U.S. In Charlie Hebdo tragedy, the French ambassador finds his place in Washington 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

But Variety hailed “an epic return to form” that struck all the right notes as a exploration of personal faith. Malick's tale of conscientious objector divides Cannes critics 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

At its best, Wilson's work is both exquisitely intimate and dizzyingly epic, all at once. RIP Lanford Wilson: the man who saved me as a playwright 2011-03-31T10:44:51Z

It is a similar story with Game of Thrones: last Sunday’s episode was the 70th instalment of the epic saga. The new nerds: how Avengers and Game of Thrones made everyone geek out 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

It happened like this: Several months ago, after one of my epic dishwashing marathons, I decided to go a step farther and actually scrub the dull, grey surface of the empty stainless steel sink. What I learned from 60 days of not letting the dishes pile up 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Moore's creative handling of a chase scene and the inevitable epic brawl is masterful, given the limitations of the small stage. Review: The brawl's the thing in 'Donnybrook!' 2013-02-18T03:46:05Z

“This was a thumping epic triumph of branding and desire over connoisseurship and reality,” said Todd Levin, a New York art adviser. Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Earlier this week, reps for the beer company announced that the special drink will hit store shelves in honor of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins' epic spaceflight and Moon landing July 20, 1969. Budweiser launches commemorative Apollo 11 Moon landing beer 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Climbers are drawn to the granite cliffs and crags of the Penwith peninsula, and I spent some epic days here, with friends, climbing and exploring the Penwith heritage coast. My year of roaming free in Cornwall – a photo essay 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Those six months turned into three years, making the production felt as epic as the life story at the heart of the film: that of the kung fu master Ip Man. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Shooting ‘The Grandmaster’ 2014-01-29T17:48:51Z

Whipp: No other TV show entertained on such an epic level this year. Emmys preview: Building a case for 'Empire,' favorite finales 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

For all his film work, he may be best remembered in India for a television role, that of the mythical monkey god Hanuman in the popular series “Ramayana,” an adaptation of the Hindu epic. Dara Singh, 83, Bollywood Star and Wrestler, Dies 2012-07-15T03:20:52Z

"It is a romanticized epic of historic characters, because this is a story about teenagers similar to teenagers worldwide, it will be interesting to the young generation," Amanshayev said. Romantic Kazakh epic film aims to woo the young 2011-10-10T16:35:04Z

But when we compare these two epic mistakes in the Romney campaign to Trump’s almost weekly blunders it’s almost impossible to understand how the bloviating billionaire is still in the race. How Donald Trump always gets away with it: He’s more like Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter than a politician 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Last week's episode of the fantasy epic brought in 6.9 million viewers to its 9 p.m. airing. TV ratings: Game 5 of the NBA Finals is up in early numbers 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Photograph: © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas The Natural History Museum has a coup – the global premiere of an epic photographic project by , possibly the best-loved photojournalist in the world. Sebastião Salgado: Genesis – review 2013-04-13T23:06:24Z

If you are not interested in fantasy epics, swords, battles, self-serious soaps or palace intrigue, you can go ahead and free yourself of the idea that you need to watch “Game of Thrones.” Need a New Crime Drama? Visit This Colorful Nail Salon 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

So of course making sourdough doughnuts turned into a three-episode epic, with some disastrous failures before a glorious success. The Best TV Episodes of 2019 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

It’s an ensemble-driven epic with nine actors flowing in and out of roles, starting with immigrants braving the sea and founding a peaceful Quaker colony in Maryland. Review | ‘Jefferson’s Garden’ blooms with contradictions at Ford’s 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

It was really nailing the ABC colours to the mast: this was to be an unapologetically lush and epic album. Easy as ABC 2013-01-21T17:30:01Z

There is the epic adventure of Marie herself: clambering over mountains to escape Chechnya. On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin 1986-2012 ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:01Z

The epic debate over these questions encapsulated an era in which the enemy was particularly fearsome because it was so insidious. These Are The 25 Most Influential Marriages of All Time 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

One of the few moments where God is invoked in the popular Marvel Cinematic Universe is actually a sideways joke in director Joss Whedon’s 2012 epic, “The Avengers.” Does God exist in the Marvel Universe? 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

The ambassador jokingly says, “We have three epic battles” in the region: “who makes the best tea, dolma and baklava.” Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

They’ll gather their improvisers and musicians onstage to perform an epic musical based on a historical figure chosen from the audience’s nominees. 5 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Intimate and personal where “Shoah” is epic in scale, “The Last of the Unjust” serves as a kind of coda to the bigger film. ‘The Last of the Unjust,’ About a Jewish Camp Official 2014-01-24T19:52:42Z

David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia had its worldwide premiere in London on 10 December. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z

In a 1998 interview with me, she vaguely alluded to all the poems and stories and epics she must have written in her childhood. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

It’s that the characters in “The Casual Vacancy” feel so much less fully imagined than the ones in the Harry Potter epic. Book Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J. K. Rowling 2012-09-27T05:00:00Z

Yet a performance of the complete epic story could last as long as five hours. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories,’ at Zankel Hall 2014-04-23T21:25:46Z

The tripartite show, directed by Reena Dutt, takes a fresh look at the Hindu epic “The Ramayana” by centering it on the character of Sita, who marries the god Rama. Theater to Stream: ‘Hamlet’ and a Tracy Letts Triptych 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Two Game of Thrones episodes are to become the first parts of any television series to appear on IMAX, befitting the vastness of the series’ universe and the epic nature of its drama. Two GoT Episodes Get IMAX Makeover 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

In a way, Ms Mr are the first US response to the British "mystery girls", an atypical American take on Flo et al's epic gloom. New band of the day – No 1,289: Ms Mr 2012-06-15T08:00:00Z

Ulin had high praise for the novel and called Robinson "a novelist who can make the most quotidian moments epic because of her ability to peel back the surfaces of ordinary lives." 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award winners announced 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

And yet, Russell has crafted an epic tale out of it just the same. A vivid return to the O.K. Corral in Mary Doria Russell’s novel ‘Epitaph’ 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

On a grander scale are two historical films whose epic ambitions are only partly realized. Film: Yvan Attal at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2010-03-11T05:31:00Z

Clive James’s book-length poem “The River in the Sky” is superb, an epic lament, written in late life, filled with exact and moving observations about life and culture. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

“Justice League” and the seemingly endless slate of big-screen Marvel epics drew headlines, so did previews of the beloved shows “Westworld” and “Stranger Things”. “Westworld” to “Stranger Things”: The 15 best trailers from Comic-Con 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

Walter creates an epic all of his own here – one that took him 15 years to write. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter – review 2013-06-01T14:45:02Z

Though “Madeline’s Madeline” runs barely an hour and a half, it packs an epic’s worth of expressive detail, imaginative incident, emotional variety and intensity, and aesthetic invention. “Madeline’s Madeline,” Reviewed: Josephine Decker’s New Film Features One of the Great Teen Performances in Film History 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

At the trendy Butcher and the Brewer, I sat for several long minutes before any of the five faces behind the epic but unbusy bar bothered to make eye contact. 10 top places to eat in Cleveland, for convention-goers and the rest of us 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

From an epic cast that includes a harpsichord-playing doctor and a monkey named William Pitt, Mitchell ventriloquizes a cacophonous mix of voices. 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet': David Mitchell's Japan-set historical novel 2010-07-16T22:43:00Z

Game of Thrones is–both creatively and business-wise–the equivalent of a blockbuster epic. Upfronts Roundup: Fall TV, Like Summer Movies, Plays the Imitation Game 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Then again, "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" doesn't need an original story: Like all kaijū movies, it only requires awesome monsters, epic fight scenes and some subtle social commentary. "Godzilla: King of the Monsters": Awesome monsters in epic fights 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Sunday's Season 5 premiere of HBO's fantasy epic hit record ratings, with 8 million total viewers for the 9 p.m. original airing, according to Nielsen. 'Game of Thrones' Season 5 premiere hits ratings record despite piracy 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Now Mr. Newman, abetted by Encore’s Off-Center series, will bring this musical based on Goethe’s epic to a New York stage for a one-night concert performance. Theater Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Before depositing it in the sculpture park's boathouse, where it is currently on show, Speed took her jerry-rigged vessel on an epic voyage through the site. Artist of the week 150: Emily Speed 2011-08-11T15:26:52Z

This is the gift "I Know This Much Is True" offers, a lengthy, lyrical vivisection of intertwined lives made of epic woe. "I Know This Much Is True" offers twice the Mark Ruffalo, many more times the sadness 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

Leading the big fantasy production number “Babette,” in which Lily ponders her divergent choices in art and love, Ms. Chenoweth seems to become an entire epic cast of divided selves. Review: ‘On the Twentieth Century,’ With Kristin Chenoweth, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

It seems the epic battle made heroes of both beast and man as the boar got a hotel named after him and the Gilpin Valley where it’s located is named in honor of Sir Richard. Follow Beatrix Potter through England’s lovely Lake District 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The family adventure took £3.8m, keeping the latest instalment of dystopian epic The Hunger Games at bay. Paddington holds UK box office lead 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

“All that remains is this city of words,” the poet, Pampa Kampana, writes at the end of her epic, which she buries in a pot as a message for future generations. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

The heroes of his epic — there will clearly be a sequel — are a gay boy and a strong girl who needs to accept her own power. Young Adult Fantasy Novels That Sweep Readers Away 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

That’s what good TV is all about — and it’s the very experience that we happy few get by sitting still and letting “Twin Peaks” patiently insert its epic strangeness into our minds. Perspective | While you were watching summer’s biggest TV show, you missed summer’s best TV show 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Among the more intriguing repertory items are Sibelius' epic "Kullervo" symphony, Rachmaninov's "Spring" cantata, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and Billy Childs' Violin Concerto, a memorial to Iraq war victims. Summertime, and there's music for everyone in Grant Park 2011-03-02T22:26:00Z

For example, one season we decided every performance would be an 11-minute epic, and we said to the curators, that’s the shape. A Show About Colonial Power, Born From the Freedom to Make Mistakes 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Though in attendance, wife Rita Wilson did not join her hubby on stage for the epic moment. Bieber manager Scooter Braun marries; Tom Hanks wins the reception 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

They're waiting for "The Winds of Winter," the sixth book in his epic series, and Martin is notorious for taking as much time as he needs to create his complex novels. George R.R. Martin will show 'The Interview' 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Now the final centenary ode to Wegner’s epic body of work comes in the form of a comprehensive auction dedicated entirely to his designs, taking place tomorrow at the Copenhagen headquarters of Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers. An auction of furniture by midcentury master Hans J. Wegner 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Where "The Shield" was a jittery, documentary-style, often hand-held look at one Los Angeles police station and the renegade unit within, "Chicago Code" is more epic, more cinematic, in its look and its subject matter. 'Chicago Code' shows city streets, corruption in vivid detail 2011-02-07T20:08:47Z

Playing Mary makes perfect sense for Shaw, who specializes in powerful, heart-pounding works, from a modern-dress "Medea" to Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days" to performing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Fiona Shaw plays the Virgin Mary with 'no agenda' 2013-04-12T13:00:14Z

This week, the festival rolls out a handful of United States premieres along with the world premiere of James Gray’s lush, somewhat mad epic “The Lost City of Z,” the closing-night title. A Guide to Enjoying the Final Stretch of the New York Film Festival 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Throwing more punches than every other movie this year combined, this single-minded Indonesian martial arts epic doesn't let up until everyone in its baddy-infested apartment block, and the auditorium, is pummelled into submission. This week's new films 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

She continues: “In true folkloric, epic fashion, the bearer of evil, of destruction is female.” Moving From Elegy to Ecstasy, a Poet Pushes Against the Canon 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

But it is worth a movie — two movies, one a burly action epic, the other a more thoughtful character study — about brave people engaged in the fine art of saving it for generations to come. The Monuments Men is George Clooney’s Art of War 2014-02-06T14:25:53Z

Here are some of the things we’re looking forward to — as well as a handful of our wildest hopes and dreams — for the epic SNL birthday bash. Eddie Murphy, Wayne and Garth, Paul “Still Crazy” Simon: Here are our hopes and dreams for the SNL reunion 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Those who know me will attest that my life story is a sprawling epic rife with sex, violence, loyalty and betrayal. Why Seth Meyers Loves Having Authors on His Show 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Despite the Anti-Catholic angle, however, under no circumstances should it be branded propagandistic, as it still remains an epic fantasy fiction novel. The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman - review 2013-03-02T09:00:00Z

My tastes run more towards the dark and absurd than the epic and grandiose. My life with J.J. Abrams: The moral code of the celebrity Doppelgänger 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

For ages the epics have been told, retold, fiddled with. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z

Mendelsohn makes Homer’s epic shine in your mind. A Father and Son Sail Through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ Together 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

Then there was the bleakly philosophical No One Knows Nothing Anymore, and the gutsy and epic There Will Be a Reckoning, which would have been perfect for Johnny Cash. Billy Bragg – review 2013-02-28T17:22:12Z

The mythological epic opened at No. 1 in Russia, France and Germany, Warner Bros. said. "Date Night" ekes out disputed box office win 2010-04-12T14:19:00Z

Near the end, Reacher engages in an epic fistfight with that massive London gangster. Spoiler alert: Jack Reacher survives, but the 19th Lee Child novel is fascinating

In its first full weekend, Steven Spielberg's World War I epic "War Horse" came in fourth with $16.9 million, pushing its domestic total to $43 million. Cruise's 'Mission' stays on top with $31.3 million 2012-01-01T20:46:03Z

The four elegiac, epic poems total more than 1,000 lines, and are devoted to time and divinity. ‘Four Quartets’ Review: Virtuosi in Verse 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

But as I've demonstrated in my work researching ancient Greco-Roman epic poetry, the origin of this sort of rhetorical violence goes back thousands of years. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

No. On that basis you would say that a five-hour epic that's truly ghastly must be of more value than Samuel Beckett's Breath, which lasts 30 seconds. The insiders' guide to the arts 2010-10-17T20:31:00Z

White’s epic novel sparkles with his trademark wit and erudition. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Trigger this mode on, and the camera angles are more cinematic, the explosions fill the screen and symphonies signal your epic triumph for the 10 seconds before another dogfight begins. Game On: 'Forza Motorsport 4' revs up its game 2011-10-18T19:35:04Z

There should have been no better time to start than this, the company’s 350th anniversary, which was to have culminated this fall with a splashy new production of Wagner’s epic “Ring” cycle. Running the Paris Opera Was Never Going to Be Easy. But Come On. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

They were rehearsing a monumental concert to be held here on Saturday night and simulcast live in Boston’s Copley Square: Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 8, sometimes called his “Symphony of a Thousand.” Memories of Tanglewood on Its 75th Birthday 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

So I wouldn’t be surprised to see more religious epics coming to TV–stories aimed, like The Bible miniseries, at the comfort zone of believers. History Channel’s Bible Is a Hit. Does That Mean TV Will Get Religion? 2013-03-05T15:54:18Z

But the challenges of a costume epic, plus the numerous scenes taking place on board ship, made for a tough process, Cross said. Blackbeard epic 'Crossbones' has NBC crossing its fingers 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

He channeled these sessions into an epic poem, “The Changing Light at Sandover,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983. About That Ouija Board: How Langdon Hammer Summoned a Poet’s Spirit 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

There’s a type of blunt, brutal fable about men and avarice that has been reworked every decade or so since Erich von Stroheim’s silent epic “Greed” was released in 1924. ‘Gold’ Review: Dry Heave 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Hellfire preacher turned epic carouser: that's how he's always talked about today. Comedy gold: Sam Kinison's Breaking the Rules 2012-12-20T15:37:15Z

The terrain includes everything from epic frozen lakes, to mountain peaks or gentle, gladed river trails. Growing haven for skinny skis: Upper Wenatchee Valley 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

That image is an example of the epic as it might be adapted for a violent video game. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z

This marks the fourth nomination in a row for the fantasy epic "Game of Thrones," based on the series of novels by George R.R. Emmys 2014: 'Breaking Bad,' 'True Detective' among drama series nominees 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

So much of what we carry with us as African-Americans has been dramatized and spun into this epic work that defies description. ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Together, they blog, create lush, catchy synthpop and generally raise the act of homage to epic, fanatical proportions. New band of the day ? No 878: Electric Youth 2010-09-30T16:01:00Z

This 2007 TV film cannot hope to match the book's epic, detailed sprawl and – to its credit – doesn't try. The Great Offices of State | Lizzie and Sarah | Wonders of the Solar System | Jersey Shore and more | Watch this at the weekend 2010-03-20T06:45:00Z

If “The Prize” was an epic, “The New Map” is a miscellany. The Future of Energy 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

The album’s epic is “Every Other Sunday,” a monochord drone through its verses that shifts into double time and becomes a hypnotic jam. Reviews of Purity Ring, Sarah Bethe Nelson and Jacky Terrasson 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

BBC4 Paul Lewis continues his epic contribution to this year's Proms, proceeding through all five of Beethoven's piano concertos. Watch this 2010-07-29T07:00:00Z

Still, Barker’s imagination has always operated on the largest possible scale, and this latest book offers the pleasures of a tightly compressed epic. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

An epic drama with wonderful performances from Bradley Cooper and of course the man himself Ryan Gosling. The best films of 2013 (so far) 2013-06-21T15:49:46Z

He often works on an epic scale, but the grand compositions are grounded by intricate detail. In the galleries: Rooted in nature but not always natural 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

"People will expect an epic, but what we've made is full of irony and dry humor." Solo actor tackles 'An Iliad' at Seattle Rep 2010-04-08T20:15:00Z

After sketching out the course of financial demise, Vera arrives at two young people who will be the focus of this epic. Review | ‘The Taste of Sugar’ offers a thrilling look at Puerto Rico’s history through the tale of one couple’s struggle to survive 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

This is the land of Hollywood, the birthplace of epic image-making and one of the largest photography hubs in the world. Paris Photo, Photo Independent fairs hit Hollywood this weekend 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Salome Dances for Peace is a sensuous but epic 100-minute cycle for string quartet; Sun Rings is an even bigger set of pieces for quartet, choir, visuals and the sounds of space. A guide to Terry Riley's music 2013-01-28T16:06:11Z

She was best known for her role in “The Patriot,” a Revolutionary War epic starring Mel Gibson and directed by Roland Emmerich. Skye McCole Bartusiak, Actress, Dies at 21 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The epic show is a cycle of four music, dance and spoken-word plays, each six hours long, that challenge an establishment culture rooted in sexism, racism and homophobia. CAP UCLA teams up with Theatre at Ace Hotel: Why shows are moving from the Westside to downtown 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

His 10-volume Seyahatname, or Book of Travels, is an epic travelogue that provides a fascinating account of everyday life in the 17th century.... Back in the Saddle: The Spirit of Turkey's Greatest Adventurer Rides Again 2012-01-13T06:45:00Z

Hegel came straight out and said it: the novel is the civic class's epic poem, and it shows a realistic world using characteristics of the essay. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z

“The Accursed” is in that tradition: American epics exploring and dramatizing leading issues of the day like women’s suffrage, racial discrimination, the moral bankruptcy of the Christian ruling class. From Woodrow Wilson to Twitter: A Q&A with Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-01T02:04:15Z

She's firmly at the top of many people's lists this year and her latest song is an epic pop ballad: Reading on mobile? Blog jam: The Music Hoarder 2012-07-05T11:19:10Z

Ms. Sarabhai was one of the first women to perform Kathakali, a classical dance form based on Hindu epics that was usually performed by all-male troupes in elaborate makeup and costumes. Mrinalini Sarabhai, Renowned Indian Classical Dancer, Dies at 97 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Finn is "such an epic slice but he massively knows it". TV review: My Mad Fat Diary; Girls 2013-01-14T23:10:01Z

This book is a riveting epic of one artist’s career, three volumes to live with for years and years. Paper Gallery: Art Books on Winslow Homer, Mati Klarwein and Gustav Klimt 2013-01-17T22:01:35Z

A 10-hour production of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace will dominate BBC Radio 4's output on New Year's Day. War and Peace to take over Radio 4 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker was iconic, the script is smart and manages to feel epic without becoming pompous and the movie overall holds up remarkably well upon repeated viewings. Which of today’s superhero films will become classics? 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

The result is a family epic that is textured and keenly felt, if at times meandering. Sarah Jessica Parker Has a Book She Wants You to Read 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

That evening, Paul Pinto performed a recent dramatic piece, “15 Photos,” which involved drones, dramatically lit passages of shadowboxing, growling vocalizations that alternated with more angelic writing, and some furiously compressed renditions of medieval epics. Review: Resonant Bodies Festival Gives Voices Room to Breathe 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

I've bragged on DC's epic "Blackest Night" saga before, which was a terrific horror movie of a superhero story that ran last summer. Comics: "The Axe-Man of New Orleans" 2010-07-20T18:03:00Z

The establishment already had a slew of favorable reviews for its “French fairyland” ambiance and Amy Bouzaglo’s “generous” persona, and been featured on PBS’s “Check, Please!” before this week’s epic meltdown. Triumph of the viral crazies 2013-05-16T14:51:00Z

His previous films ranged from lavish historical epics, tragic war stories, and hardboiled crime dramas to dystopian thrillers, cerebral science fiction, and subversive political parodies. Why "The Shining" is a hopeful film 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

If she never quite found her footing in the rigid conventions of bel canto, there is more in common with her theater work in the later, dreamier, more epic “Rusalka.” With ‘Rusalka,’ Will the Fourth Time Be the Charm for Mary Zimmerman? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

The award for best play went to Rona Munro's epic trilogy The James Plays, while The Scottsboro Boys won best musical. Gillian Anderson wins theatre award 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

I know it's fictional and hopefully it will always be fictional for you, but having one of those TMZ epic meltdowns is every actor’s nightmare. Jerry O'Connell talks murder, dog hoarding, Drake & "Real Housewives" 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Pericles The Porters of Hellgate stage this epic adventure tale partly attributed to Shakespeare. L.A. theater openings, April 23-30: 'An American in Paris,' 'Pericles' and more 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Because those folks are plenty rude — Our meals, they think, are epic fails So they turn their backs on all “fast” food. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Welcome to another edition of ‘Rhymes Against Humanity’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Shouldn’t the magnificent Persian epic “The Shahnameh” be among the elect? Review | The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

The epics are not only used to portray contemporary political issues. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z

And like any epic, it often lacks intimacy; we get to know Villanueva as a student, a teacher and a prophet, but not so much as a father, a husband or a man. One Man and His Followers Sought Salvation. Did It Exist? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

I love big, sweeping, epic love stories, especially love stories set in the midst of war, but it grew beyond that. Book Talk: Chris Bohjalian on history, anxiety and writing 2013-07-11T14:59:44Z

SyFy’s epic, chainsaw-laden preview gives a hint at the cacophony of hokey dialogue we can look forward to for the film’s July 30 release. The Sharknado 2 Trailer Looks Awesomely Bad 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Another triumphant animation from Nick Park, Early Man is a family comedy that stages an epic football match between the tribes of the stone age and the bronze age. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

We’re finding something so epic and unexpected to show Noah in a different light. Noah Galloway, Sharna Burgess look to 'Dancing With the Stars' semifinals 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

An old film projector in what was once the living room points to the wall where the family frequently watched the epic World War I silent movie "The Big Parade," Wyeth's favorite film. Wyeth's Pa. world opening to public for first time 2012-04-28T18:01:05Z

On the hardcover list, at No. 3, is "Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Man in Black," the latest adaption of Stephen King's epic, published by Marvel Entertainment. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: 'Persepolis' Tops the Paperback List 2013-01-25T20:54:07Z

Audience numbers fell and studios moved on to epic fantasy franchises and building cinematic universes. Love is (still) in the air: how the romcom came back from the dead 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

He wrote that the most epic landscape he knew before the Mojave was Mousehold Heath in Norfolk, which I thought was amusing, and certainly resonated for someone from Essex like me. Hari Kunzru: 'What's happened since 2008 is a class war based on faith and credit' 2011-08-07T19:00:02Z

Some fans may decry the absence of “Revolution” take 20, an epic, ten-plus minute mix which appeared on bootleg in 2010 and serves as a spellbinding missing link between “Revolution 1” and “Revolution 9.” The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

One of Mr. Johnson’s specialties was epic accounts of historical figures. Lamont Johnson, Emmy-Winning Director, Dies at 88 2010-10-27T04:57:00Z

“Viewers are curious to see how a big-name director reinterprets an epic,” she said. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z

His vision of the city is an incremental epic, with a grand collective existence gaining its splendor from its variety—and being reduced to a flat, terrified, and deadened monotony. Which Movies to See in January 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

After all, this was an epic, epoch-defining debacle that deserves more scrutiny than, say, the Fyre Festival, a preposterous fiasco from 2017 that crashed before actually happening yet has already prompted two films about it. ‘Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage’ Review: How a Festival Went Wrong 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

What we are left with is an intimate epic that, while giving enormous pleasure, aspires to be nothing less than a state-of-the-nation musical. Road Show ? review 2011-07-06T17:00:02Z

In this epic confrontation between good and evil, one will triumph and one will perish. In the fight between good and evil, even Batman must play by the rules 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z

Don’t be scared off by the three-hour runtime, which lately has seemed to be the exclusive province of bloated epics: Here, it is sublime. ‘Lost Daughter,’ ‘Licorice Pizza’ top AP’s best 2021 films 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Bazzett’s verse translation of the Mayan creation myth grants contemporary readers access to one of the few epics indigenous to the Americas. New & Noteworthy 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Passing through lakes, rivers and canals, the trip takes in rural villages, towns and cities ranging from epic grandeur to rustic simplicity. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z

But it’s also something different in the larger universe of pay-cable drama: an epic drama told from the standpoint of an optimistic, resourceful woman rather than brooding, demon-chasing men. REVIEW: Outlander Is Many Kinds of Show, All in One Kilt 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

David Lynch's haunting The Straight Story also features an epic final journey. What films best portray old age? 2012-07-04T16:41:52Z

That joke about literary ignorance stings a little, considering just how unrecognizable the cinematic “Hobbit” epic has become, compared to the book. ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ review: Lots of fighting, not much hobbit 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Beauty’s story haunts because the gelding tells it through his own eyes; the Black’s tale grips because he and his boy face epic adventure; Misty is unforgettable because the story is almost true. 3 Middle Grade Novels Explore the Bond Between Horse and Human 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t make it sound any more epic.” Sam Gold and Annie Baker Are an Artistic Pairing Destined to Succeed 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

In some ways, she’s a passive doormat, whom Emma is able to prod into asking David to sign over his house to them over an epically uncomfortable dinner. Review: ‘Sally4Ever’ Sends a Black-Hearted Valentine 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Exuberant recycling of familiar tropes was a huge part of the success of the first “Star Wars” movie, which was part western, part World War II epic and part buddy movie. Perspective | As a classical music critic, I used to think the ‘Star Wars’ score was beneath me. I was wrong. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

It took an epic natural disaster to publicly surface the long-standing tension within one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful families. Murdoch family discord plays out publicly 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert closed out nearly a decade of “The Colbert Report” with an epic sing-along of “We’ll Meet Again,” featuring a chorus of celebrities, politicians, and intellectuals. Craig Ferguson’s “The Late Late Show” Will Be Missed 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

This novel is epic in every sense of that word: mythic, sweeping, over the top, staggeringly complex. Phil Klay’s 'Redeployment,' Gary Shteyngart’s Memoir and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Early on, these were epic surrealistic tableaux vivants washed in unearthly colors with names like “Folding,” “Near the Terrace” and “Behind Resonance.” Shen Wei Revives ‘Map,’ a Work from 2005 2014-04-11T21:47:13Z

Stegner’s settings range from academia and the literary world to mining camps and boomtowns, but his most consistent subject is marriage, represented in a mode more epic than romantic. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Like its literary model, Goethe’s epic poem, this symphony is ambitious and envisioned on a large scale, lasting for almost an hour. An exercise in filling an evening: Noseda, NSO are vivid in long 19th-century music 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Unless he responds to it with an epic aha moment, though, I think counseling — for you solo to start — would be a good idea. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She was groped, but her husband is the one acting violated 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

There was no point in asking my oldest surviving comrade from the ’60s, a former dealer and epic head back in the day; he had since become the pastor of an evangelical church. Acid redux: My long, strange, cancer-fighting trip back to tripping 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

Bellingham author Smith launches an epic series set in 432 BC. NW Books | Cult killings, a Taos mystery, ancient wars 2013-06-18T15:36:06Z

Did you ever sit at home with Manson and laugh at what we must have imagined you doing, all those epic feats of satanic bacchanal? Mika meets Dita Von Teese: 'I've had to work hard to stay like this' 2012-10-11T18:00:02Z

It is distinctive, though, for the sheer stubbornness she brings to her investigation and for the epic scale of the resulting chain of misunderstandings, school suspensions, social-media witch hunts and ruined lives. Netflix and Cinemax Go to South Africa for Real 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

I am insanely desperate for the next book and for this one to be made into a film, because it was just so epic! The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore - review 2012-07-27T08:00:00Z

Nothing that follows is as grandiose, which in a way is unfortunate, since the film is meant to be an epic. | 'Valhalla Rising': Robert Kane Pappas?s Documentary Nicolas Winding Refn?s Nordic Epic Spy Games With Ellen Barkin Marta Mondelli?s Troubled Beach House 2010-07-15T22:54:00Z

They began a tumultuous affair in Rome on the set of "Cleopatra," the epic about the Egyptian queen who dies for love. Obituary: Elizabeth Taylor, of movies and men 2011-03-24T02:49:21Z

He’s tasked with reforming, and modernizing, the city’s epically corrupt police force as Cleveland’s new safety director. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

"Clash of the Titans" fell four places to No. 5 with $15.8 million in its third weekend; the tally for the mythological epic rose to $133 million. "Dragon" edges out "Kick-Ass" at box office 2010-04-18T18:24:00Z

They could not be shown in the huge cinemas where Bollywood's successful epics attracted full houses, and were often considered abstruse and uncommercial. Mani Kaul obituary 2011-07-14T17:33:24Z

This should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Robinson, a novelist who can make the most quotidian moments epic because of her ability to peel back the surfaces of ordinary lives. Marilynne Robinson's grace shines through in 'Lila' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

"My colleagues around the country thought I was crazy for putting 'Mr. Burns' in a thousand-seat house, but it's an epic play that asks enormous questions," Perloff said. Out of Carey Perloff's 'Chaos' comes theatrical harmony 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

But the supple contributions here of Morgan and especially Rodriguez provide the core of this “Carousel” with its sense of epic weight. A ride on a ‘Carousel’ is just the ticket right now 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

A lot of Christians respect, but can't bring themselves to like Milton's epic. Australian poet, Les Murray 2010-04-29T13:15:00Z

“Aeon,” which Mr. Cage described as “epic in character,” was 45 minutes long. Valda Setterfield Dies at 88; a Star in the Postmodern Dance Firmament 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

That result, she and Bartsch agree, is a consequence of particular choices made in reading, not the substance of the epics themselves. Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Realists anticipate that win or lose, Trump likely leaves the party in shambles: either he batters decades of revered dogma into smithereens and/or brings down epic repulsion consistent with the audacity of his duplicity. What “unity” with Trump means: For Republicans, winning is everything, principles are swept away and hypocrisy reigns 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Space exploration epic Interstellar fell one place to three. Dumb's the word at US box office 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Wiseman's film is my favorite nonfiction work of the year alongside another film you probably missed: "Last Train Home," Chinese-Canadian director Lixin Fan's first feature, a documentary with the sweep of an epic. Michael Phillips picks the year's 10 best movies 2010-12-15T22:06:00Z

The blighters are these days raised on an epic scale, the billion-dollar industry rapidly converting entrepreneurs into farmers. TV highlights 05/07/2013 2013-07-05T05:59:00Z

Fischer went on to say that the movie will be an "epic comedy," and that a longer trailer will be released soon to reveal more details of the film. Internet memes transition to feature film in "The Chronicles of Rick Roll" 2011-02-24T16:47:00Z

The body of texts variously held up as “scripture” include prophecies, biographies, letters, poems, songs, parables, laws, histories, dream diaries, genealogical lists, memoirs, and epics. The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Frank carefully sequenced them to form a visual epic poem, with internal pacing and rhymes. Robert Frank Revealed the Truth of Postwar America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Spielberg-produced alien invasion epic with good stuff buried among the more soapy TV tropes. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z

The two men are currently engaged in an epic feud, which started when LePage claimed in his weekly radio address that King no longer lives in Maine or pays state income taxes there. Stephen King demands apology from Maine governor 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

The epic walking quest that ensues may be a balm for housebound souls. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Shazam!’ and ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Try the epic first movement of the Third Symphony for size, especially as it careers to an unstoppable churning tsunami just before the end, before dissipating in a filigree spray of flute and violin. A guide to Peter Maxwell Davies's music 2012-08-20T16:14:00Z

But then again, Hollywood loves a good comeback story, and “Hacksaw Ridge” certainly plays to some of the Academy’s soft spots: it’s a war movie, a period piece, and kind of epic in length. Oscar snubs: Meryl Streep robs another great actor, and other injustices from 2017 nominations 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

As with “Angels,” Dove’s approach here is informally epic. Backstage with Jesus and Hitler in Ruhl’s epic ‘Passion Play’ 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Mark Morris' danced opera "Dido and Aeneas" is a tour de force of late 20th century artistic storytelling, a partial retelling of Virgil's 2,000-year-old epic poem "Aeneid" using Henry Purcell's 1689 musical composition. Mark Morris' 'Dido and Aeneas' an exuberant spin on ancient epic 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Even so, Mr. Christensen’s Jacob, a master of archery and a slave to the pipe, is hardly the worst thing about this Chinese-Canadian-French co-production, a wannabe epic rattling with swords and clichés. ‘Outcast,’ With Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Currently, among everything else there, the museum is staging a fabulous little exhibition of images from the great Hindu epic, the "Ramayana." 2 shows that glow at Seattle Asian Art Museum 2012-09-13T20:30:11Z

Let’s start with the good parts of this epic computer strategy game, which allows you to command legions of historically accurate soldiers in battles across ancient Rome. Video Games: Rayman Legends, Total War: Rome II, Plants vs. Zombies 2, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Puppeteer 2013-09-11T21:39:06Z

That's the person who begins the play by asking for "a muse of fire" to help the speaker do justice to the epic tale about to unfold. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices 2012-07-12T16:46:49Z

Too often directors pick up big epic novels, but if you do that, you have no time for the film. Shhh, Don't Tell Other Directors: Working With Kids Is Easy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Photograph: David M Alexander Jack Vance, who has died aged 96, was a writer of science and high epic fantasy whose work was oddly at variance with the journeyman genre in which it first appeared. Jack Vance dies aged 96: master of bold and bizarre science fiction 2013-05-29T23:13:06Z

Its music was rooted in the same improvisation and epic solos that defined the Grateful Dead, but it also had a playfulness and funkiness that set it apart. Phish Has Come To Terms With Its Life After the Dead 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

There they appealed to Bilbo's innate sense of adventure and managed to convince him to accompany them on their epic journey to reclaim their long lost gold. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien - review 2013-07-18T14:00:00Z

The classic French epic in a new translation by Lawrence Ellsworth brings freshness to the story of d’Artagnan and his pals. New & Noteworthy 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Something halfway between the epic, the screenplay, the ancient tragedy. ‘Who Will Remember Her, Once She Is Buried?’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Related: The Force Awakens reviews roundup: verdicts arrive on JJ Abrams' Star Wars epic How strong is The Force in this one? The Force Awakens: is the acting strong in this one? 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

The latter is one of two shows presented by Battersea Arts Centre, along with Paper Cinema's The Odyssey, a live-animation retelling of Homer's epic poem. British Council announces Edinburgh Showcase participants 2013-04-24T09:51:35Z

The structures that came after the Russian Revolution were no less epic and equally laden with government message. St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

And yet, in many ways, the novel seems to reject its epic trappings. A Lovestruck Poultry Farmer on a Journey Far From Home 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

Abrams will direct "The Force Awakens," the seventh film in the space epic series created by George Lucas. New 'Star Wars' film will be called 'The Force Awakens' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The epic saga of a heroic Chinese monk’s pilgrimage to India with a Monkey King, a pig spirit and other disciples in search of sacred Buddhist scriptures was first published in 1592. Anthony C. Yu, Translator of the Saga of a Chinese Pilgrimage, Dies at 76 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

It was a style that made him a sort of reverse Jackson Pollock, who epitomized the New York-based Abstract Expressionist school with his epic canvases of seemingly chaotic splashings and drippings. Karl Benjamin, Rebel of Midcentury Art Scene, Dies at 86 2012-08-04T00:53:07Z

Her best known work, “Away,” was an epic adventure set in the early 20th century. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo

We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones. ArtsBeat: Will Arnett on the Return of ‘Arrested Development’ 2013-05-22T17:51:13Z

The film’s grandeur was undeniable, and so was its gravitas: It was an epic punctuated with a question mark. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Written for the Paris Opera, it nodded to the French grand style and included epic scenes and massed choruses. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2022 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z

Parts of the story are narrated by a blind singer — a literally Homeric figure — and the story itself upholds Ezra Pound’s definition of the epic as “a poem containing history.” ‘Birds of Passage’ Review: An Epic Narco Tale That Will Open Your Eyes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

He wrote prose as well as poetry, epics as well as lyrics, was a master of metre, and fluent in many languages. Poem of the week: From Longfellow's translation of the Divine Comedy 2010-08-16T09:35:00Z

In breakups, as in Hollywood films, Little Mix songs or Greek epics, there are good guys and bad guys. From ghosting to oversharing: the new rules of breakups 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The epic settings, outlandish characters and grand schemes that shaped the competition have been inspiring writers ever since, giving rise to a trove of books about the period. In ‘The King’s Shadow,’ a Long Forgotten Spy Returns to the Spotlight 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

A young star at Manchester's Royal Exchange, he was directing at both Covent Garden and English National Opera by his late 20s, and in the years since has overseen both box-office-banking musicals and epic flops. A life in theatre: Nicholas Hytner 2010-10-18T07:00:00Z

The week leading up to the opening ceremony of the Olympics is the perfect context for staging Elfriede Jelinek's epic play about the culture of sport. Sports Play – review 2012-07-23T17:07:08Z

Instead, pre-recorded sounds of street life in Bamako, Mali's capital, started the performance as different scents were pumped into the room, before a narrator began the tale of the pair's epic journey to date. Amadou and Mariam - review 2011-07-18T17:01:30Z

It’s the rare epic disaster movie in which the result of the central apocalyptic event is already known to anyone familiar with the basics of world history. Today’s Movie Trailer: Pompeii 2013-08-22T16:30:06Z

Rowling's seven novels about the young wizard's indoctrination into a secret world of sorcery and his epic battles with evil conjurer Voldemort. 'Potter' takes down Batman with $168.6M weekend 2011-07-17T22:01:04Z

Its follow-up, “Hotel California,” spent nine weeks at No. 1, driven by the strength of its epic, mysterious title track, which Mr. Frey wrote with Henley and Don Felder. Glenn Frey, guitarist for the Eagles, dies at 67 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Griffith epic drama, but is a very different story and is told from an African-American perspective. 'Birth of a Nation' slavery movie stumbles in Hollywood 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Maitland's teeming novel strives for epic status, jumping around between narrators and countries, giving us oracle twins, a powerless child king and a wily adventurer who may not be what he seems. Thrillers: John O'Connell's choice – reviews 2012-08-10T21:55:07Z

The waves are epic, and the dancing surfers don't so much ride them as partner with them, adhere to them, become engulfed by them. 'The Reef' concert had a chance to catch a new wave of fans by pairing surf sounds and scenes 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

The film carries a trace of the sweep of a great screen epic along with the straightforward, explanatory qualities of mass-audience TV, and is never less than absorbing. Review: In ‘Viceroy’s House,’ the Birthing Pains of Two Nations 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Stanley Kubrick’s epic, a journey from pre-human history to a possible infinity that doesn’t need humans at all, is probably the most respected, if not the most beloved, science-fiction film of all time. The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Our list this week also includes a new translation of Homer’s epic by Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate the work into English. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The new Amazon series “The English” bears all the external signs of the classic westerns of yore, with scenes that could have been pulled straight from a 1950s Technicolor epic. In ‘The English,’ Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer Saddle Up 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Having established itself as television’s first real fantasy epic, it goes on to redefine its own terminology. TV Picks: 'Daredevil,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Outlander' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Debut album Escape works its groove hard, but with contributions on keyboard from Sanae Yamada, these epic and psychedelic workouts acquire a lightness of touch. This week's new live music 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday called the film “one of the great love stories, an epic romance” and a “precise, graceful and intellectually rewarding work worthy of Murdoch herself.” John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

The upcoming Marvel superhero epic Captain America: Civil War looks set to feature multiple members of the original Avengers ensemble. Mark Ruffalo: Hulk has been cut from Captain America: Civil War 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

I still find myself when looking for something to read choosing a random story and thinking, “Oh god, this is so epic.” Nkechi Anele from Saskwatch: 'I've hated my hair for most of my life' 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

If you don’t want to make that epic journey, head towards Red Bird Trail, which isn’t humble about showing off its bright fall foliage surrounding Wisconsin's largest inland lake, Lake Winnebago. Explore these fall hikes around the US 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Before beginning the narration of the woeful epic they have to share, they describe themselves as “love watchers, kiss clockers” for whom “love is at arm’s length.” Kneehigh Theater's ‘Tristan & Yseult’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

It worked for "Love," his epic Spectrum piece set to Britten's cello suites earlier this year. Byrd and Dance Theatre of Harlem: a thrilling 'Contested Space' 2012-11-17T17:06:18Z

The Taipei premiere will be held Sunday at a square facing the Presidential Office Building in honor of the island's first epic film production in decades. Historical epic film gets rare honor in Taiwan 2011-09-03T03:11:09Z

Last year's high January totals were largely due to the enormous success of James Cameron's 3-D epic "Avatar," which went on to become the highest grossing film ever. Hopkins takes 'The Rite' to top of box office 2011-01-30T23:46:03Z

“It’s not just those epic, jaw-dropping moments — it’s those quiet moments of travel that are worthy to talk about.” The people behind Instagram’s wildly popular travel photography accounts 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

But his best songs – Paid for That and mellifluously tuneful The Base – mix epic melancholy with pretty melodies. Paul Banks – review 2013-01-23T15:16:00Z

Saying that your weekend was “epic” is saying nothing about it, except, perhaps, that your conversation partner was lucky to be elsewhere for those days. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

The result is less a Robin Hood story than an epic action movie that sees Crowe at the center of English history at the turn of the 13th century. "Robin Hood" drops tights in new extreme makeover 2010-05-10T04:13:00Z

For her part, the filmmaker became intent on fashioning an electronic-music epic. They’re not all Daft Punk: ‘Eden’ and the other side of EDM 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

There is a delicious irony in Hayes’s decision to remake a song about wanting to go unnoticed into an epic tour de force. How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

An epic from science-fiction virtuoso and Seattle author about pioneers who escape the end of the world and about their descendants, who return 5,000 years later to find a radically transformed Earth. 30 books for spring reading 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Every epic tale worth telling needs to have a gentle giant, whose screen time implicitly reassures the nervy viewer that there are bear hugs available if all the maiming becomes too much. Tyrion, Daenerys ... Hot Pie? The greatest Game of Thrones characters 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

In the past year alone, Avatar, Transformers 2 and Roland Emmerich's 2012 all broke the country's box office record, though homegrown movies such as propaganda epic The Founding of a Republic have also performed superbly. Website launch signals new appetite for exposure within Chinese film industry 2010-03-30T10:28:00Z

“Bringing Anne Lister to life with all her complexity, passion, brilliance and wit is an epic challenge,” Wainwright told the Radio Times last year when the series was announced. Recognition at last for Gentleman Jack, Britain’s ‘first modern lesbian’ 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Filling the void are other authors writing their own epic fantasies. Book trends in 2016: Paper is popular, science fiction rises, long-form nonfiction dips 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

The album is now considered a landmark in bringing classical influences, epic length and mythic scope to rock ‘n’ roll. Rocker Ian McDonald of King Crimson and Foreigner dies at 75 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

In “Black Leopard,” he worked hard to retain the oral and aural dimensions of the western and central African epic traditions that inspired the project. Marlon James to Host New Literary Podcast 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Once Queen was convinced of the show's epic scale, they agreed not to close the concert, but to play at 6:41 p.m. When Queen Took ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ to Live Aid 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

In “All for Nothing,” that chorus is shrunk to a chamber motet that is finely blended yet only bitterly poignant, making the novel’s bloodied and epic finale feel insufficiently supported. 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

But then again, epic emotions and magical goings-on are not so rare in dance. The Magical Transformations of ‘The Winter’s Tale’ 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

But his father’s contempt for the epic becomes an extension of the cruel rejection of Mohabir and his beloved grandmother. Review | Rajiv Mohabir’s ‘Antiman’ is a memoir that refuses genre 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Inspired both by domestic politics and by American and European New Wave cinema, directors created epic dramas that portrayed apocalyptic government conspiracies and dystopian cyber-police states. The Most Popular Anime of All Time Comes to America 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Moments later we were huddled around a phone as he shared set photos from his coming epic parody, in which all of the actors performed their own stunts. David West Read Visits Vegas for ‘The Performers’ 2012-10-21T03:07:23Z

The work’s 91 measures are generally dispatched in less than six minutes, hardly the girth of an epic. Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z

The epic benefits from being collected here as a single set of inspired weirdness. Best graphic novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

This new series based on the book by Ken Follett is being hailed as an "epic event." 'The Pillars of the Earth' on Starz is a Friday TV pick 2010-07-22T22:08:00Z

Perhaps because epic poems have so often originated in times of political upheaval, the lessons readers have taken from them have changed, sometimes radically, over the decades and centuries. Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

There's a psychedelic fancifulness to Boudinot's story, which is written on an epic scale while intimately exploring the changing nature of thought and experience. 'Blueprints of the Afterlife': death glaciers and other disturbances 2012-02-15T22:17:04Z

You never feel you are battling against a loud orchestra, and can use the full dynamics of your range and explore vocal colours, while at epic moments, you can also really let rip. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

And if Hollywood wants epic histories to adapt, the continent has plenty to offer. "The Woman King" poses the conundrum of making a great action movie about exceptional killers 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

This affirmation is triumphantly validated by "the tricky reverse narration" of Fun Home's final panels, in which Bechdel's artistically resurrected, epic father is there to catch and save her child self. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z

Simpson: American Crime Story: felt like a police procedural, the second episode is set around an epic chase. How the OJ Simpson Bronco Chase Affected the Kardashian Kids 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

This time, the sisters symbolise Yoruba goddesses, and they are at the heart of this epic, multi-authored show, jointly presented with the Royal Court as part of World Stages London. Feast for the eyes 2013-02-04T12:52:01Z

Agora Egyptian slave epic, starring Rachel Weisz as a foxy philosopher. Films out this week 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

Her latest — a kind of text-based adventure — is a book-length epic about a character who has to figure out the terms of a strange new world. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Hollywood filmmakers are releasing movies that feature epic battles with vampires, goblins, extremists and a few elves. Few family films among Hollywood's holiday movies 2012-11-14T13:08:33Z

There are also surprises, including a Venetian landscape by Thomas Moran, better known for his epic portrayals of the American wilderness. The Greathouse touch: Several exhibits at the Frye reveal the canny curatorial eye of former director Ida Kay Greathouse 2010-07-29T20:34:00Z

Similarly, Sinclair's dense webs of prose, history and autobiography are researched via epic walks, even runs, around his home borough of Hackney and London's "edgelands". Swandown: two men in a pedalo 2012-07-18T17:17:15Z

I wondered first of Boyle if he had, despite everything, learned to love Jobs in the months of making his epic? Steve Jobs: the afterlife 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

For this epic poem – the novel of its day – reminds us that the land now known as Turkey has inspired the greatest stories from the start. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

With Henry Ford’s top architect, Albert Kahn, as their consultant, the Soviets squeezed wealth out of the countryside on the road to creating a socialist society after an initial epic fail. We Are What We Manufacture 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

“I began to dream in English,” he writes, “and my dreams became even more intense, with representations of epic narratives through unnaturally deserted New York streets on the sunny, icy morning of an endless Sunday.” The History of Dreams, From Greek Mythology to Last Night’s Sleep 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Decorating each phase of this tap epic are the terrific moments in which the art’s rhythmical virtuosity seems to pass into Mr. Seibert’s own prose. Review: A Rigorous Tap Dancing Lesson in ‘What the Eye Hears’ 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

“Mission Drift,” a sprawling musical epic about five centuries of American expansion and destruction, is the kind of frisky theatrical adventure that would be twice as much fun at about half the length. | 'Mission Drift': ?Mission Drift,? a Musical at the Coil Festival - Review 2012-01-12T00:17:21Z

The fantasy epic “Game of Thrones” and its home network, HBO, led the field in the nominations for the 67th Emmy Awards announced Thursday. Emmy Nominations 2015: ‘Game of Thrones’ Leads the Way 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

The result is “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” a film he co-wrote and directed that focuses on a 6-year-old girl who survives an epic storm. Q&A: The Filmmaker Benh Zeitlin’s Impressions of the Bayou 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z

Yet sheer length does not an epic make. ‘The Inheritance’ Arrives at a Festival of German Drama 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Then, in 2008, he confounded expectations with “The Given Day,” an ambitious historical epic set against the profusely detailed backdrop of post-World War I Boston. Adventures from Dennis Lehane and Lene Kaaberbol 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

"Daredevil" is not an epic, like "Game of Thrones," but neither is it one man's chronicle, like "Breaking Bad." Bare-knuckle, old-school tack in 'Daredevil' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Other performances in the varied lineup include “The James Plays,” a stage epic about the kings who ran Scotland in the 15th century, staged by Scotland’s national theater. Cannes Festival Begins and Chinese Artists Head to Sydney: Global Arts Guide 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

The World At War The seriously epic second world war documentary. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

I remember one New Year’s Eve party that was epic. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: Not Exactly Party Animals 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Moyer was appealing because he’s designed for opera, and Paul wanted that kind of forceful imagery and epic scale for his “La Mancha.” Impossible dream: young director brings musicals to Shakespeare Co. 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The film's final, epic, fire-powered showdown is either satisfying or stultifying. In the joyfully violent "Nobody," Bob Odenkirk channels his inner John Wick 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

I think I was reacting to being unsure about what epic means. Six Songs of Me: Gavin Turk 2012-08-28T11:11:55Z

A listing on a cinema website in Australia, where the much-hyped science fiction epic is due to open on 6 November, suggests the film will run for 175 minutes. Interstellar will be Christopher Nolan’s longest film odyssey yet 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Events like the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement “reverberate around and through what’s happening in Ferguson’s life,” Ms. Young said, calling the novel “an ambitious, complex, epic narrative.” Man Booker Shortlist is Half American 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Obviously the Series would have to be epic. Diamondbacks 1, Story 0 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

But as its epic story slowly unfolds, the series warms up. The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

But for decorators, its appeal seems to lie in the way Mr. Visconti uses a painterly approach to costume and set design to tell an epic story. | TV: ?The Leopard? and Its Lush Interiors 2011-08-24T22:41:39Z

His actions and stories were deeply abstruse, but epic, apocalyptic. Art Review: ‘Subliming Vessel,’ Drawings of Matthew Barney, at Morgan 2013-05-09T21:05:25Z

Sam’s life was an epic first to last, a movie that starts as a Western and ends as a spy thriller. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z

“Mr. Gibson’s stroke of brilliance is to revel in those epic qualities — tragic romance and unbounded heroism, gorgeous photography and a cast of thousands — and add a swift contemporary kick.” What’s on TV Sunday: The Grammys and the N.H.L. All-Star Game 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

“Hamilton” is indeed a great epic, tracing the successes and failures of a trenchant political thinker and flawed family man. ‘Hamilton’: Making ecstatic history 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

As well as allusions – Hector comes from Ilion, New York – there are attempts at epic diction. The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

Tolkien, the author of “The Lord of the Rings” fantasy epic and its predecessor, “The Hobbit.” A New Tolkien Book Was Inspired by the Author’s Own Romance 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

In Focus Features' press release, they billed it as an epic musical. Sparks talk new album, ever-growing fanbase: "Our audiences are pretty accepting of eccentricities" 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mark Ruffalo, the epically talented thespian, was going to bring a fresh twist to Bruce Banner. Avengers Spoiler Alert: All Sound and No Fury ? Or How Marvel Botched a Nuclear Apocalypse 2012-05-07T10:45:29Z

What the critics say: "Boyhood is not just a genuine epic, not just beautiful and moving, it looks like a classic already." Oscars 2015: Best picture nominees 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Why on earth would a studio pay for a redo of an epic disaster? Fueled by fans, ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ hits HBO Max 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

You also have to remember that everything comes down to how it's being sold and "Apocalypse Now" was sold as an epic movie with a ton of action. The right and wrong ways to name a movie 2011-02-11T14:50:00Z

April 6 marks the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into the first world war, and PBS is recognizing that milestone with an in-depth look at some of the epic war’s hidden figures. We’ve been here before: Eerie parallels between World War I and present-day America 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

Thubron is not a stranger to the region or to this sort of epic journey. At 82, legendary travel writer Colin Thubron shows no signs of slowing down 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

They are epic issues, demanding such dramatic solutions that it is easy to forget the gentler, quieter genre of design projects, which fulfill the old-fashioned objective of improving our quality of life. Gems to See, Sail and Serve 2010-10-03T15:00:00Z

Coppola made his bones with that crime epic, which won three Academy Awards, including best picture, made untold millions of dollars for Paramount Pictures and influenced a half-century of filmmaking in the process. Restoring ‘The Godfather’ to Its Original (Still Dark) Glory 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Decades ago, my immature first reading of this moment viewed Dream's ordeal as simply the inciting incident in an epic odyssey that's equal parts head trip and road trip. Enter "Sandman," right on time 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

The Burton picture is unlikely to come near the $2.5 billion global gross of James Cameron's epic, which become the all-time top grosser in Energizer fashion, by just going and going and going. Box Office Report: Alice's Wonderful Weekend 2010-03-08T18:15:00Z

The epic tone of the music offsets the lyrics, enabling the album to be both deeply personal yet also vague enough to mean different things to different people. The Antlers' kiss of death 2010-05-13T21:50:00Z

They have to have heart and a story, which makes their struggles through challenges such as “The Herculean Pull” into epic stanzas in a hero’s song. American spirit, as seen on TV via "The Masked Singer" and "The Titan Games" 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

“Sontag” reads like an epic quest, offering a deep and thorough portrait of the intellectual giant that’s both dishy and enlightening. Review | The 10 books to read in September 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

If that doesn’t sate your appetite, there’s season two of Gaiman’s other epic fantasy, American Gods, which comes back in March. Partridge, politics and period pomp: the must-see TV shows of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Consider the epic scope of some of the works we've been studying. A new, fearless generation makes this a revolutionary moment in American playwriting 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Starting in the prehistoric period, and working his way up to the present day, his task is nothing short of epic. What are your top 50 artworks? 2012-07-11T10:24:23Z

"It's a real epic story," said Lee, ahead of a detailed presentation of the new comic book series on Saturday at Comic-Con International. Stan Lee reveals details of new comic "Seekers" 2011-07-22T23:00:05Z

Tolkien's "The Hobbit," the prelude to his epic fantasy trilogy "Lord Of The Rings." Comic-Con fans journey to Middle Earth with "Hobbit" 2012-07-15T03:43:45Z

Ms. Parks’s mighty aims are signaled by the noble template she has chosen to tell her story: Homer’s “The Odyssey,” the epic poem about a Greek warrior’s long journey home from an epochal conflict. ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

For us, the Age of Discovery is long gone and, for the most part, so are old-fashioned historical epics, other than the occasional Chinese extravaganza or one of those international waxworks with clashing accents. Review: Hearts of Darkness and Light in ‘The Lost City of Z’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The emo wars raged in 2006 as the Daily Mail went up against a generation of disaffected teens in an epic battle for music's soul. Reading and Leeds festival: nominate your favourite moments 2011-08-24T15:39:00Z

The film was a teen movie and an epic, both a sociological mirror and a sculptured creation, and it was the first masterwork of a hip-hop film aesthetic. Mourning John Singleton, a Guardian of Black Cinema 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

This episode had a bit of everything, with Abraham seeming to come to grips with his own aggression in the aftermath of his epic Eugene beat-down. 'The Walking Dead' recap: The storylines get 'Crossed' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Compressing the important events of Tolstoy’s thousand pages into an impressively swift two hours and change, Mr. Wright turns a sweeping epic into a frantic and sublime opera. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z

By doing so, “Alita” avoided getting steamrolled a la “Mortal Engines,” Universal’s sci-fi epic that flopped in spectacular fashion when it debuted in December. Box Office: 'Alita: Battle Angel' wins dismal President's Day weekend 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

And this being an action epic, there’s much more fighting than in the original, particularly by Mulan. Mulan, a Most Adaptable Heroine: There’s a Version for Every Era 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

“You’re totally epic,” she said, and though he was taken aback for a moment, he couldn’t disagree. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Luther,’ Starring Idris Elba, Is Back for Season 3 2013-09-02T20:49:55Z

Her family's from Mexico City, and they threw this epic party for us at their house. Arcade Fire: 'We want to save Potter' 2010-12-22T08:38:13Z

“The only reason I took this on was the challenge of making an epic film.” ‘O.J.: Made in America’: A Documentary Movie or a Mini-Series? 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

What Aristotle concludes can be summed up, very simply, as the following: in epic, things just happen. Beowulf, Shakespeare and the plausibility of fiction 2012-07-25T17:04:25Z

Opera music director Kent Nagano began his appointment as music director of the Hamburg State Opera Saturday with a major new production of Berlioz's epic opera, "Les Troyens." Essential Arts & Culture: Beyond the Broad 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Jones’s first attempt at Wagner’s four-part epic about gods, mortals and the end of the world, which opened at Scottish Opera in 1989, got to the second part, “Die Walküre,” before the money ran out. The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Each superstar wowed the crowd by delivering an epic solo set, chock-full of hits. Beyoncé and Jay Z Showed a Video From Their Secret Wedding Last Night 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

The director’s epic new drama, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” is no exception. ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Has Some Surprising Cameos. Here’s a Guide. 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z

Now it's Burnett's turn to wow a small-screen audience with epic Scripture stories: He and his wife, actress Roma Downey, are producing the 10-part docudrama "The Bible" for the History channel. History channel gives 10 hours to 'The Bible' 2011-05-24T04:28:08Z

New LP Last Night On Earth sees them sounding like groups who made their careers with epic, stadium anthems. This week's new music 2011-03-26T00:07:03Z

Inspired by Proust’s intimate epic, “In Search of Lost Time,” and drawing on his own past and friendships, Powell began composing his “Dance” series. ‘Anthony Powell’ Captures the Rich, Long Life of the Man Behind an Epic Series 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

For American audiences, it offers the opportunity to discover one of the great epic novels of world literature, first published in 1791 and sometimes called the Chinese “War and Peace.” Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

This Broadway transfer makes tremendous use of the deep stage and various aisles of Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, creating a spectacle both intimate and epic. London hit "War Horse" makes thrilling Broadway bow 2011-04-18T03:57:08Z

Either way, you need to book a holiday if you want to hear the whole of this epic and have time to recover. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2012-09-29T23:07:03Z

But Marvel has already announced a two-part Avengers epic, Infinity War, appearing in two installments currently scheduled for May 2018 and May 2019. Joss Whedon Won't Direct 'Avengers: Infinity War' 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

What we think is that Beijing was the end of a certain kind of ceremony, that epic scale. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z

Not to mention there’s also some epic shots of the Night’s King and his band of White Walkers, who are presumably making their way ever closer to the Wall. The New 'Game of Thrones' Trailer Teases a Major Battle 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

“It’s an X-ray being put on these little private dramas backlit by something that feels really epic,” he said. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

With the chorus of ghosts in the cemetery, Mr. Saunders tied Lincoln’s suffering to a universal human plight of mortality and loss, giving it an epic, mythical quality. George Saunders Wins the Man Booker Prize for ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

We promised an epic prison break out for you guys and we delivered. The Rock Hints at Resolution With 'Unprofessional' Co-Stars 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Fiction is their occupation — a premise that allows this playwright, whose micro art finds drama in the interstices of stories, to slyly comment on a culture that fetishizes epic escape. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

And it’s home to environmental contamination on an epic scale—Superfund sites that are mind-boggling in their surreality. “Richest Hill,” a Must-Listen Podcast About Butte, Montana 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

Springsteen's website describes the "Born to Run" album as "a sheer epic fueled by tangible energy, the idealized notion of escape and the romance of youth." Springsteen 'Born to Run' manuscript at NY auction 2013-12-05T14:25:44Z

On successive days, we had planned two epic hikes: the first, the Narrows, accompanied by a guide, and the second, Angels Landing, on our own. Four seasons, four stunning national parks 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Upon entering, catch the epic view of a towering Winged Victory sculpture, visible in the home’s conservatory, across a dramatic 175-foot pergola. 36 Hours in Buffalo 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

His novels are sprawling epics and deeply researched. China’s Film Industry Finally Joins the Space Race 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

It’s an epic that is extraordinarily empathetic towards its characters, even the ugliest, most craven ones. “Game Of Thrones”: HBO throws out George R.R. Martin’s books — and saves the show 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

But when the epic battles start raging—so…many…epic…battles—we’re back to business as usual. Can We Build a Better Blockbuster? Wonder Woman Points a Way Forward 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Besides "The Descendants" and "The Help," best-drama contenders are Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure "Hugo," Clooney's political thriller "The Ides of March," Brad Pitt's sports tale "Moneyball" and Steven Spielberg's World War I epic "War Horse." Globes: Comedy vies with drama this awards season 2012-01-15T16:03:29Z

In my continuing love affair with New York, I’m about to start Robert Caro’s Robert Moses epic, “The Power Broker.” Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

But Jake McDorman, last seen as Murphy Brown’s adult son Avery, will play pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard in a series adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s Space Age epic “The Right Stuff,” which began shooting last week. Perspective | HBO needs new stuff and lots of it. Get ready for more fantasy stories set in parallel worlds. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

Nic's epic love poem is as much about the world of art as it is about celebrity, and the nature of "fandom." Nic Rad's "Celebritist Manifesto": James Franco fan art becomes actual art-art 2011-02-22T14:12:00Z

Nasreen is working on a novel, a family epic set in Tehran in the 1970s. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked – review 2013-02-07T07:00:01Z

Empire was an epic adventure but also, at its heart, wretched and racist. Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it 2013-05-14T17:30:01Z

Spanning seven decades and four generations, clocking in at five hours and 17 minutes and being shown in two parts, "Gangs of Wasseypur" is epic in every sense of the word. 'Gangs of Wasseypur' is epic in every sense 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

In a program note, he suggested that Chopin’s ballades are “epic tales in scope, if not in length; operas in miniature,” a quality captured in his performances. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Their love-hate dynamic takes on epic proportions and is an engine that fuels other important parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe story while remaining compelling in its own right. Thor's change in "Avengers: Endgame" isn't offensive 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

After the legendary English bon vivant died in the middle of shooting Ridley Scott’s swords-and-scandal epic, the director used previously shot footage and a body double to complete his scenes. Back from the dead: how Hollywood pulled off its most unexpected resurrection acts 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

The travel bloggers are embarking on an epic camper van tour of the U.S. in September, and plan to visit Utah, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho on the way. Instagram travel influencers share US road trip plans as coronavirus pandemic continues 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

"Edinburgh Festival Fringe sees a rush of exciting artists present their work in what remains an epic showcase for the performing arts," said EIF Director Jonathan Mills. U.S. theater wins Edinburgh Fringe award 2011-08-30T17:17:16Z

Then epic events offstage made the performance of onstage epics impossible. Full-Scale Wagner Returns to Europe With a Refugee-Theme ‘Walküre’ 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

It isn’t epic or tragic or especially momentous. Extraordinary Actresses on Their Ordinary Roles in ‘Morning Sun’ 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Across its first two seasons, Netflix’s epic crime drama “Narcos” cemented itself as one of the more engrossing, visually arresting shows on the platform. See the first trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s brilliant “Narcos” 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

“I’d describe this film to people and say: ‘Well, it’s a big period epic about dark things in the vein of the best noir. Edward Norton and Thom Yorke: 'The last thing we wanted was for it to get bloody' 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Wagner was in the midst of composing his four-opera epic, "The Ring of the Nibelung," when he fled Dresden to avoid arrest for his participation in an unsuccessful revolution. 'Tristan und Isolde' backstory rivals any soap opera 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

Mussolini, indulging his martyr fantasies, draws inspiration from a biblical epic depicting Jesus' crucifixion and projected on a church ceiling. 'Vincere' follows Mussolini's charismatic impact on World War II through tragic lover 2010-04-01T18:56:00Z

That is long enough, she said, “to fly around the world” or “to sing two ‘Ring’ cycles,” referring to Wagner’s epic four-opera “Ring des Nibelungen,” in which she has been appearing at the Metropolitan Opera. Music Review: Diva?s Struggles and Songs, Shared With Candor 2011-07-31T21:55:47Z

Set against the backdrop of the second Sino-Japanese War, “The Wasted Times” has the outward appearance of being a sweeping gangland epic. Review: ‘The Wasted Times,’ a Hopscotching Shanghai Crime Tale 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Don't expect to get a history lesson from this Revolutionary War epic starring Mel Gibson as a reluctant hero who is dragged into the conflict when — spoiler alert — his son is killed. Red, white and blue on the silver screen: Six essential July 4 films 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

After April’s over-the-top epic “Avengers: Infinity War,” Marvel also downsized the story for “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” focusing on a small group of characters and a quest to reunite with Hope’s mother. Graceful but lethal 'Wasp' joins Marvel forces in new film adventure 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

A surprise car parade of garbage trucks made a little girl’s quarantine birthday an epic one to remember. Girl, 3, surprised on quarantine birthday with parade of favorite garbage trucks 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

It went from anonymous people to a fountain of human drama — all these epic stories of the people inside. In "The Infiltrators," immigrant activists get willingly detained for a "jail break in reverse" 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Manhattan’s Upper East Side is, after all, worlds away from the 1850s frontier of deWitt’s astonishing epic “The Sisters Brothers” and from the gothic realms of the later “Undermajordomo Minor.” Review | ‘French Exit’ gives a witty look at a rarefied world 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Spectacle was seen as the key: westerns, musicals and sword-and-sandal epics dominated. Blockbusters assemble: can the mega movie survive the digital era? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

So I felt it was necessary to narrate it that way, with this kind of force and epic sweep. Inspired by Simón Bolívar and Gustavo Dudamel 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

We begin with a flashback: On the last day school in 1990, five mates in the nondescript village of Newton Haven attempt the Golden Mile, an epic, 12-pub crawl. Review: In 'World's End,' one hilarious apocalypse 2013-08-20T22:45:57Z

Being able to witness this astonishing moment of epic theatricality is something I will always cherish. 'My awe at role in 2012 ceremony' 2012-07-28T10:08:39Z

Jacob, the blacksmith’s son in the German historical epic “Home From Home,” is the rare reader in his poor village, and a formidable anthropologist. Review: In ‘Home From Home,’ a Blacksmith’s Son Dreams of a Different World 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

What followed was one of the epic disappointments in feminist history, a period characterised by infighting within the movement, and betrayal, chiefly by the 1972 Democratic candidate for president, George McGovern. Rose Byrne: ‘You understand why feminists are furious – we’re still talking about this?’ 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z

New productions of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, a 16-hour epic taking place over four evenings, are always a highly anticipated event, and even more so when they take place at the annual Bayreuth Festival. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

The source material here is Mexican author Laura Esquivel’s beloved novel — an epic love story with recipes and a sprinkling of magical realism. Review | GALA’s uneven ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ offers sweet moments 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

It is quite an epic journey that the characters take. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

In his epic novel "To the End of the Land," Grossman tells the story of a woman's journey through Israel. German booksellers' Peace Prize goes to Grossman 2010-06-10T12:46:00Z

For many of us, David Lean’s epic film of that name — one of the greatest movies of all time, visually sublime yet heart-shatteringly intimate — is all we know of Lawrence. The early years of the real Lawrence of Arabia 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

In both vibe and execution, “American Gods” reminds me of the ambitious yet burdensome “Emerald City” series on NBC earlier this year — another broadly envisioned epic that got tangled up in art-direction and mythological theme. Starz’s stylish ‘American Gods’ is long on concept, but short on momentum 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Reviews are streaming in from all over the country saying this epic collaboration between two of rap's biggest stars, Kanye West and Jay-Z, is relaxed, collegial and even better than the album. 14 Seattle entertainment picks for Dec. 11-17 2011-12-09T19:02:30Z

In the first act, at least, the story — mostly exposition — feels out of sync with the epic quality of the words and music. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z

“But he was unlucky in happening on a period in which the American cinema was in full cry after war epics — all of them highly successful.” Robert Ryan?s Quiet Furies 2011-08-06T20:58:02Z

Groundbreaking doesn’t even begin to describe this globe-straddling documentary epic, which for the first time showed the world’s wildlife in gleaming HD. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

No longer content with defining epic television, "Game of Thrones" is poised to redefine it by making a genre built on action and archetypes irrefutably human. 'Game of Thrones' enters Season 5 at war with it all 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

Griffith's 1916 epic "Intolerance" will be presented Tuesday only, at 7 p.m. SIFF musically reinvigorates Uptown Theater 2011-10-20T20:11:04Z

To find himself and mature, this brooding heartthrob must leave on an epic quest. ‘Treasure Planet’ at 20: Disney’s Failed Space Odyssey Deserved to Soar 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

The hugely popular fantasy epic finished its eight-season run in May, but many fans were left disappointed, signing an online petition calling for a remake of the last episodes with “competent writers”. Game Of Thrones star denies responsibility for coffee cup blunder 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

In the 1980s, he composed music for a section of Robert Wilson's ill-fated epic The Civil Wars, a piece never performed in its entirety. Here Lies Love – review 2013-04-23T13:53:26Z

Comparisons between "Black Widow" and Matt Damon's multi-film action epic work in Marvel's favor, actually. "Black Widow" is a triumph for Marvel fans, yet that's what makes it so infuriating 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

I know that when he started hinting about running for president, I was thrilled, secure in the knowledge that I’m going to be laughing from here until at least his next epic election night meltdown. “Bloom County” returns, thanks to … Donald Trump? 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

But this animated epic, which ends on Labor Day after 10 seasons, is one of the visual and artistic wonders of the last decade, a gorgeously lacquered jawbreaker with a bittersweet center. ‘Adventure Time,’ TV’s Surreal Masterpiece, Comes to an End 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

And then, as big mama rhythmically grunts, another piglet and then another scales her epic head and tumbles into the world. ‘Gunda’ Review: A Remarkable Pig’s-Eye View of the World 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

“But I did not think it was going to be, like, epically fresh. He created a new American book.” Robert Jones Jr. Is Son of Baldwin, and More 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

On the epic scale of Bonnaroo, these traits can result in bafflement. Op-Ed Contributor: A Music Festival to Make Your Head Spin 2011-06-14T04:04:25Z

This year’s ceremony has a rejoinder in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” another Yeoh-led epic, which scored 11 Oscar nominations including, this time around, four acting nods, including Yeoh’s first. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

The advantage of drawing from one of the epics is that viewers are by and large familiar with the characters. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z

Downplay the "Gay," and the same subtitle works for "Tiny Kushner," a suite of five short plays that, with an epic cumulative effect, tap into five distinct veins of American craziness. At New City Theater: 'Tiny Kushner' provides 5 short plays, epic effect 2012-09-27T20:25:08Z

The beat keeps threatening to turn into something more modern or busy but doesn't, and remains the same soul loop for five minutes, an epic length for rap. Fice did it: Neko Case's "Thrice All-American" finally sampled for Tacoma rap song 2010-06-15T00:23:00Z

A recent viral YouTube video shows a woman’s epic struggle to parallel park her car. ‘Spite’ Looks on the Bright Side of a Dark Feeling 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

"The Tale of the Princess Kaguya" is a marvel of Japanese animation, a hand-drawn, painterly epic that submerges us in a world of beauty. In 'Princess Kaguya,' a wondrous parable about what matters 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Mendelson, in his essay, also noted the genre’s roots in the epic, arguing that such novels show how “the world’s knowledge is vastly greater than any one person can encompass.” Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

In this new epic, Verghese traces the birth of modern India through the experience of a family in Kerala that seems to be cursed: A member of each generation has drowned. 22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Many followers of Parry believe that the two great epics were oral compositions, but others call them “oral-derived.” Was Daniel Patrick Moynihan Right About America? And Other Letters to the Editor 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

The tasting continued through epic wines from Italy, Australia and California’s Napa Valley. How to drink like a billionaire – a guide for the status-conscious wine lover 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Again, this is not a mark against the film, because it’s mostly rousing on these terms, boosted by a Roman succession plot that plays one man’s epic revenge quest to the highest of stakes. Did Gladiator really deserve the best picture Oscar? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

The American rockers performed an epic set for 500 fans, billed under the name White Limo. Foo Fighters play secret London gig 2011-02-28T10:28:23Z

Of Monsters and Men, "My Head Is an Animal": The Icelandic fivesome have melodies that are eerie, jamming, groovy and overall epic. AP music writers' top 10 albums of the year 2012-12-13T14:50:11Z

The Gunslinger is a quiet, meditative novel; as inauspicious a way to start a sprawling epic fantasy series as I've ever encountered. Rereading Stephen King week 13: The Gunslinger 2012-12-13T10:17:38Z

In addition to providing the underpinnings for world literature, epic poetry has for much of history been used to define social values and shape nations’ political identities. Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

These movies look like throwbacks — “Macbeth” to the black-and-white Shakespeare of Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier; “Power” to sprawling Technicolor epics like “Giant” — but they are also signs of life. The Future of Movies Collides With the Past at the New York Film Festival 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

The Temptations: Papa Was A Rolling Stone Arranger: Paul Riser This epic track, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, is unusual in having no harmonic progression – it sticks rigidly to the B-flat minor chord. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z

The low-budget movie about the lives of four women, by Taiwanese director Chang Tso-chi, beat Hong Kong martial arts epic "Bodyguards and Assassins" and China's "Judge" to win the top award. Taiwan is big winner at Golden Horse film festival 2010-11-20T18:01:00Z

What DC had was mythology at an epic level, and we were going to take them on this amazing journey. Zack Snyder’s Rough and Tumble Ride With ‘Justice League’ 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

In a time when films are either gigantic, nine-figure epics or indie pictures on a pauper’s budget, a middling movie has its theoretical charms. Ride Along: Kevin Hart, Small Cop 2014-01-15T18:37:17Z

The season is perhaps most satisfying if consumed in a binge, so that its questing convolutions feel like the motions of a languorous epic. “Disenchantment,” Reviewed: Matt Groening Makes the Most of Medieval Slapstick Pestilence 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Whereas other uses have signified magnitude and epic scale, here it is mimicking and mocking the inner turmoil of the character as he burns, both physically and emotionally. Clip joint: Beethoven's ninth symphony 2012-12-05T16:13:20Z

He's showcased his versatility at Bonnaroo, laying down epic guitar solos with his jam band friends, playing the blues and now laying down soul songs that might appeal to an entirely different crowd. It's all about soul for Warren Haynes at Bonnaroo 2011-06-11T01:20:09Z

The doleful vocals over gently epic, lushly orchestrated piano rock that soundtracks Vic's maudlin meditations – you could easily imagine this stuff catching on with that kind of audience. New band of the day – Satellites (No 1,431) 2013-01-15T15:37:00Z

King, of course, has made good use of virtually every mode of storytelling: short stories, screenplays, novels, multivolume epics and what he referred to as his “novel for television,” the miniseries “Storm of the Century.” Review | ‘If It Bleeds’ reaffirms Stephen King’s mastery of short fiction 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

She was suddenly epic, mythological, like Isolde, the role for which she is perhaps best known. Keep Going, Keep Going, Even at the Met 2011-04-03T02:14:50Z

The new 3D film follows the epic journey of hobbit Bilbo Baggins, played by Martin Freeman, as he travels with a band of dwarves to steal treasures from the dragon Smaug. "Hobbit" debut reaps $13 million in U.S. and Canada, a December record 2012-12-14T20:52:22Z

Column, capital, mountain, sky: Omrit was like a haiku distilled from Herod’s ancient epic. Herod the Great’s Israel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The epic crowd for the antipodean song-and-dance painter thinned out considerably, leaving those who looked no strangers to the odd evening of world music. Femi Kuti at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-25T12:55:00Z

Evoking a Trinidadian performance of the Hindu epic “The Ramayana,” Walcott begins his 1992 Nobel Lecture by celebrating the hybrid beauty of Caribbean civilization. In Praise of Derek Walcott’s Epic of the Americas 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

This new epic crime drama, set during the Weimar Republic, the chaotic 15-year era that preceded the Third Reich, is widely predicted to become an international television sensation. Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Gritty Drama ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

But when Wagner’s epics still hold the stage and opening up standard cuts in Handel operas is a healthy pastime, duration is a poor excuse for neglect. Music Review: A Return to Rossini?s Days of Yesteryear 2011-07-10T21:37:45Z

Dark Knight Rises – Breathtaking epic and great performances, making this a stunning finale to a superb trilogy. Open thread: What's the best movie cameo? 2012-07-20T14:43:36Z

From thrillers to epic romances to teen comedies, the library is cinema's go-to location when it wants somewhere with history, gravitas and a glass door that can shatter when you scream. Clip joint: libraries 2011-02-16T14:29:11Z

Amnesia, a familiar trope in romance, becomes epic in Peterson’s hands, as befits the fantasy setting. Hot and Bothered: Four New Romance Novels 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Proust’s epic now feels to me sort of twee and also not discontinuous enough. Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Quan’s win bookended a pretty epic career comeback; Curtis is Hollywood royalty, a daughter of two actors who got her start in “Halloween” in the 1970s. Best and Worst Moments From the 2023 Oscars 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

I’ve always been a huge fan of epic fantasy, but I often enjoyed the concept more than the actual books in that genre. Sofia Samatar on the many influences on her fantasy novel, 'The Winged Histories' 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

But it took several years for Fellowes to clear his plate of “Downton” duties, and once his “Gilded Age” scripts started to arrive, Igbokwe said, “the scope and ambition for the project was pretty epic.” ‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

“It’s kind of a space epic,” he said, “very theatrical at times, only in the ‘Star Wars’ sense of things. MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z

The heavily symbolic epic, it must be said, makes little sense to this particular grandfather, but it is charged with visual drama. Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lake was instrumental in bringing classical influences, epic length, mythic scope and 1970s excess into rock-and-roll, winning millions of fans before punk swept in and spoiled the party. Greg Lake, who co-founded rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, dies at 69 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Tokarczuk, who has read Scholem closely, agrees, although her epic tells the tales not just of Frank’s followers, but of his Jewish enemies, Catholic abettors and the many others whose lives he upended. Savior? Monster? A Messianic Leader Rallies His Followers. 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

As an airline pilot and writer, I’ve been all around the world — to the skyscraper-forests of Shanghai, the grand museums of Cairo and the epic sands of the Kalahari. In an English Village, a Gathering of Scarecrows 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

The Anglo-Saxon epic “Beowulf” has a historic place in English literature. ‘Beowulf’ Gets a 21st-Century Update 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Given the size, the dream becomes an epic whisper. At LACMA's Toba Khedoori show, enchanting mysteries burn beneath a fragile surface 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Most epic romances begin with intractable families forcing lovers into each other’s arms. My daughter is dating a much older man | Mariella Frostrup 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

The Joffrey Ballet’s bicoastal run in the 1980s was considered a debacle, ending with red ink and epic bickering. Giant Steps for Dance in Los Angeles 2012-10-19T00:40:07Z

Some ridiculed it as suitable only for a Hollywood epic but Isserlis conveys its simple, urgent message. Bloch, Bridge, Hough: In the Shadow of War – review 2013-04-06T23:06:23Z

In the journalist Joshua Prager’s ardently reported and painfully timely epic, “The Family Roe,” Jane Roe is both heroine and villain — and a paragon of human complexity. The Epic Life of the Woman Behind Roe v. Wade 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

After Wagner’s plans for a festival in Munich devoted to his works fell through, he was entranced by the Margravial Opera House, but it was much too small for the epics he envisioned. Inch by Inch, an Operatic Jewel Is Polished 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

I’m writing a script about another young man whose story is epic but overlooked. “Johnny Physical Lives”: A brother’s documentary love letter to a rock myth cut short 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

The war epic “Dunkirk” received eight nominations, many of them in technical categories, although it also will compete in the best picture race. 2018 Oscar Nominations: ‘The Shape of Water’ Leads the Race 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

In the Baltics, I spent an epic 10 days zigzagging across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, discovering manor houses and palace ruins that even locals don’t visit. A Frugal Handoff 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Due to the epic's ecological theme, Fox broke with the industry's Tuesday release date norm and scheduled the release to coincide with Earth Day. "Avatar" sets first-day Blu-ray sales record 2010-04-23T13:33:00Z

He died in December 1851, just two months after the publication of Melville’s epic tragedy. In Turner Paintings at the Met, the Bloody Business of Whaling 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

When I brought up the notion of eco-theater to a colleague of mine, she jokingly wondered whether I was hankering for grand epics about polar bears. The arts become Earth-aware: Dawning age of what are known as eco-arts 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

That Stacton found his phantom selves in the annals of foreign lands imbues his novels with a unique kind of epic wistfulness. David Stacton: the method man 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z

It features Josh Brolin as a careworn studio troubleshooter and George Clooney as the star of a biblical epic who gets kidnapped. Berlin film festival 2016 roundup: serious gems and stylish risks 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

Skip forward another few centuries, and author Scott Elliott patterns important elements of his new novel, which is set on the Olympic Peninsula, after the Greek epic form. ‘Temple Grove’: war over Olympic Peninsula’s old trees 2013-05-22T23:10:19Z

But who benefits financially from these advertising spinoffs, asks Stephen Armstrong Meerkat Aleksandr Orlov to star in 'movie' Comparethemarket.com ad star's film is a tongue-in-cheek homage to classic epics such as Lawrence of Arabia. Adverts: the top ten you loved the most in 2010 2010-12-17T13:51:08Z

The DJ guise of the electronic act the Orb's only constant member, Alex Paterson, he plays more immediate fare than the ambient epics his group is known and loved for. Clubs picks of the week 2013-01-05T00:06:08Z

This 17th-century epic poem describes two acts of exile: rebel angels' expulsion from heaven, and Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden. What classic literature says about refugees fleeing war 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Music documentaries like “Supersonic” generally trace an epic arc of rising and falling, and at this point the Gallaghers have their stories down cold. Oasis and the Fading Dream of the Nineties 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Devdutt Pattanaik, a writer who uses the Hindu epics in human resource management, describes both books as “the template of Indian thought.” Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z

The primary exception is the first, reading from left to right: “The Birth of a Nation,” the famous 1915 silent epic by D.W. In Gary Simmons' hands, classic film titles ooze with racial history 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

As a commodity, as a show, as a commentary, as a mirror, Hirst's art is a grandiose epic of these times. Why I've joined Damien Hirst's bad taste party 2010-09-28T14:07:00Z

This proved a demanding hour in which the visuals couldn't keep pace with the epic narrative. TV review: Madagascar; Romancing the Stone; A History of Ancient Britain 2011-02-10T08:00:01Z

While these pilgrims' progress is not quite the stuff of epics, "See Rock City ..." is still an enjoyable, light musical jaunt. Life-changing travels in 'See Rock City' 2010-07-26T22:02:00Z

A classic example is the 1988 Hindi series Mahabharat, an epic tale of feuding princes and their scheming siblings, which attracted up to 5 million viewers in a Saturday afternoon BBC2 slot. The Returned: how British TV viewers came to lose their fear of subtitles 2013-06-07T12:00:00Z

Kurt Behrendt, an assistant curator in the department of Asian art, is responsible for this marvelous travelogue, and skillfully guides the multiple strands of an epic story to what may be their ultimate destination: here. Art in Review: ‘Buddhism Along the Silk Road’: ‘5th-8th Century’ 2013-01-31T20:38:36Z

The new world of television has also given us Game of Thrones, another epic series of books set in a parallel fantasy universe and made into a very successful HBO show. Philip Pullman Has Made a Career Building New Worlds. He’s Not Done Yet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

He runs every day and takes what he calls “epic hikes,” including one last month with his family. Charlie Palmer Rethinks His Empire 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

That led to “Spark,” about the magazine for which Lin Zhao wrote an epic poem describing the struggle for freedom from tyranny. Excavating Chinese History, One Harrowing Film at a Time 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

Why dwell on the slender story of a massively scaled digital epic? "Jupiter Ascending": Wachowskis in Outer Space 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

The venue has previously hosted acclaimed productions of several of Verdi's operas, and its epic possibilities should suit Aida better than most. Aida 2010-06-04T05:45:00Z

With waiters in ties and crisp, white jackets and a chophouse-style food menu that’s epic in length and price, its old-world spirit endures. In Venice, sampling a cocktail revolution 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, “The Minstrel Show,” running close to three hours, is epic in ambition — and so extraordinarily varied that it never gets dull. Spectrum’s vivid, volatile ‘Minstrel Show’ hits its mark 2014-02-21T19:49:24Z

In lieu of epic series, many of these new releases come in the form of short story collections, which allow the imagination of a multiplicity of futures in order to reflect a multiplicity of readers. In the latest wave of science fiction, authors of color take space to imagine multiple new societies 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

Their sound was to become a little more mainstream, with fewer epic instrumental solos, and a little less desert fuzz, but Better Living Through Chemistry proved they weren't about to leave that behind entirely. 10 essential Queens of the Stone Age songs: a beginner's guide 2013-05-10T15:15:00Z

His character sketches of the main Russian players in this epic drama are sure, his depiction of Russian social, economic and military realities revelatory. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z

The personal gave way to the historical in some novels that dealt on an epic level with the tortuous history of Latin America. An Appraisal: The Work of Gabriel García Márquez 2014-04-18T01:44:10Z

An entire room is devoted to the luminous watercolors of George Harkins, whose pictures of stream-etched landscapes are both delicate and epic. In the galleries: Mapmaker Michael Francis Reagan goes bold in exhibit at Gallery A

And it is epic and it is an iconic role,” she says. Orlando Bloom, Condola Rashad Tackle Shakespeare 2013-09-17T14:22:16Z

Other ideas that fell by the wayside include a feature film on Hiawatha, inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha. Unseen treasures from the golden age of Disney revealed for first time 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

Attributed to a minstrel called Blind Harry, the medieval epic The Wallace was the second bestselling book in Scotland after the Bible for several hundred years after its publication. William Wallace leads charge of TV history dramas 2013-07-20T12:10:37Z

He talked about the novel as the epic poem's descendant and a burgeoning form, a new literary form that accompanied the development of the citizen society and the conflicts of capitalism. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z

"For our debut project, Threshold Global Studios will bring one of the most beloved, cross-generational gaming brands in the world to the big screen as an epic, sci-fi thriller," Kasanoff said in a statement. It lacks the building blocks of characters and a plot for now, but a Chinese-American studio hopes to turn the Tetris video game into a blockbuster movie 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Kiah got into alternative metal bands, hearing echoes of her own unexpressed anger, but it was in the mystical, expansive angst of Amos’s piano epics that she found an approach to own. Amythyst Kiah Found Her Powerful Voice. Now She Has a Sound to Match It. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Schumann wrote his Fantasy, an epic, idiosyncratic 30-minute piece in three movements, in homage to Beethoven. Music Review: Pianist at Last Has Carnegie All to Himself 2011-01-23T22:42:27Z

The British playwright Jez Butterworth returned to the epic heights and depths of his earlier “Jerusalem” with this sprawling tale of a Northern Irish family at the height of the Troubles. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

After all it's been a couple years since that last epic fantasy series about games and thrones ended. Watch "The Wheel of Time" epic adventure begin in Amazon's fantasy series – trailer 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

This documentary followed plans and hype for the kind of luxurious music festival in the Bahamas that Instagram was created for, except poor execution and over-promising turned it into a failure of epic proportions. The AP names ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ top TV show of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

“Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan’s layered war epic, collected Oscars for sound mixing, sound editing and film editing. ‘The Shape of Water’ Wins Best Picture as Oscars Project Diversity 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

Soap opera subplots are often inspired by tales from the “Ramayana” and “Mahabharata,” epics that are the pillars of Hindu culture. Indian Soap Operas, Ruled by Mothers-in-Law 2012-12-25T22:38:41Z

Eventually, she began appearing in guest roles on TV shows including the legal comedy “Night Court,” and in films including director Sergio Leone’s 1984 gangland epic “Once Upon a Time in America.” Estelle Harris, ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Toy Story’ actor, dies at 93 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z

SAT Help plant native trees and shrubs, with naturalist program of the history of the river and salmon's epic journey; 10 a.m. Community calendar 2011-10-05T22:25:05Z

At the time, Cleopatra's significance was commercial – it was the latest and, all too problematically, the largest of the Hollywood epics, delivered at a time when the studios were losing power. Cleopatra and Heaven's Gate: the last of the great Hollywood stinkers? 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z

The subject's allure for me stems from the unfolding of this epic intellectual quest against the backdrop of all-too-human history. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z

The would-be thief she discovers at the start of her shift is just the beginning of her epically challenging yet ordinary day in Andrew Bujalski’s stealth charmer “Support the Girls.” Review: In ‘Support the Girls,’ Sisterhood Is Funny, Essential and Sweet 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Half Straddle turned the space into a playing field, with bleachers, for “In the Pony Palace/Football”; Performance Lab 115 restaged Wagner’s “Ring” Cycle as an epic wrestling match. Bushwick Starr, a Humble Space With Bold Works 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

“He painted on an epic scale, and the paintings prefigure abstraction.” Inside Art: The Whitney Heads for the High Line 2010-04-15T21:53:00Z

To horribly misquote another epic Italian American movie: take the credit, Stanley, but leave us the timpano. How Stanley Tucci's Big Night helped kick off an American dining revolution 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

As he continues his quest, Mr. O’Brien said he will draw on what he has learned from Mr. Caro’s epic series. Conan O’Brien’s Unrequited Fanboy Love for Robert Caro 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

One of the foremost artists in the Hudson River School of landscape painting, he was known for his highly detailed, epic canvasses favoring sunsets and waterfalls. The Hudson Valley’s outdoor art parks make for an alluring pandemic destination 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

This is an overstuffed but fleet-footed novel that attests to its young author’s epic ambition and boundless talents. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Grand historical epics are harder to come by, and Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is one of the best of them. 6 Best Summer Blockbusters You Have to See 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Serpell’s epic debut novel, “The Old Drift,” followed families across generations in Zambia, stretching from the colonial era into the future. 33 Works of Fiction and Poetry Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

My novels are epic fantasy, but they are inspired by and grounded in history. ArtsBeat: George R.R. Martin on ‘Game of Thrones’ and Sexual Violence 2014-05-03T01:46:16Z

This epic trilogy is the story of George Smiley, an aging spy who is called back to ferret out a traitor in the British Secret Service. Spy novels by real spies: Anthony Burgess, John le Carr? and others 2010-08-18T20:33:00Z

Arias, ensembles and choruses move the plot relentlessly forward; if Mussorgsky, in “Boris Godunov” and “Khovanshchina,” treated history as philosophical epic, this is history as vigorous, even pulpy, novel. ‘The Tsar’s Bride,’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

A decade earlier, the aviation mogul and dedicated playboy had produced movies, including the aerial epic Hell's Angels and the notorious gangster film Scarface, directed by Hawks. Remembering "The Two and Only" Jane Russell: 1921-2011 2011-03-04T09:05:00Z

D W Griffith's Civil War epic from pre-Oscar days featured Lincoln's assassination and glorified the South. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z

An epic failure to steal a street vendor’s nut cart gets Surly labeled “a clear and present danger” to the others, so he is banished from the park. ‘The Nut Job’: Animated comedy is a crackup 2014-01-16T21:59:42Z

Her most striking feature is her eyebrows, which are epic and untouched. Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z

Once they suffer through their epic mishaps, they emerge resoundingly human. ‘The River Swimmer’: youth and age, in the currents 2013-01-30T19:27:37Z

Months into the epic wedding journey, a bank failure swallowed the couple’s savings. Taking Another Look at the Author of ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

Post War Years are not ones to frequently mistake the epic for the overblown. This week's new live music 2013-02-23T06:00:07Z

They did two nights at Page Auditorium in Durham on the Duke Campus after "Reckoning" came out and the shows were loose and epic. Remembering R.E.M. 2011-09-22T00:30:00Z

A poor woman in England suffered an epic Christmas fail when she fell through the ceiling while looking for festive decorations in her attic. Woman falls through ceiling looking for Christmas decorations: 'I can laugh about it now' 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

How fitting, then, that “Metamorphoses,” Ovid’s seminal chronicle of the world and its myths, has proved a lasting influence for Mr. Furrer, who has spun notions from that epic into several works. Music Review: Talea Ensemble and Ekmeles at the Czech Center 2013-05-17T22:02:36Z

They recorded Pampin's whole "Percussion Cycle": a mind-bending sound epic that subtly erases the boundary between live instruments and the digital manipulations of those instruments. Get ready for a 3-D sound experience with Les Percussions de Strasbourg 2011-02-16T21:09:06Z

I think it's just a big epic that feels like a great way to end the moviegoing year. 'The Hobbit' stays atop box office for third week 2012-12-30T23:16:04Z

Where their debut contained giddy guitars and a song about their local swimming pool, their third album finds them pondering mortality within melancholy epics deserving the comparisons with the Blue Nile and Talk Talk. The best albums of 2012 (so far) 2012-06-14T19:00:06Z

This was TV drama as comfort blanket: at a time of austerity, Julian Fellowes’s country house epic offered elegantly realised solace in the homilies of the past. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

In many great operas, composers have had to whittle down an epic literary work into a suitable libretto. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z

Substantial portions of the movie have turned up on the Internet, and a section of Don DeLillo’s epic novel “Underworld” was named for Frank’s documentary. Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

His semi-autobiographical period epic opens with one of the most sumptuous and dramatically vivid Christmas feasts ever filmed. O.K., Who Put the Nazi Zombie Under the Tree? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

“It was so cinematic and so immediate and so epic and so far beyond anything I had remembered,” Ewing says. “Detropia”: Can Detroit be saved? 2012-09-07T17:45:00Z

He’s done superb scores for horror films, mysteries, romances and grim historical epics. 50 shades of Shutterstock 2012-05-29T01:00:00Z

As both Cindy, 31, and Tristan, 34, receive paid new parenthood leave, they wanted to do something epic during their time off with their new little girl. Baby, parents make road trip to 50 states for world record 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

As writers considered that question, “an epic mystery began to unfold, a past that suddenly threatens the future of Arendelle,” he said. Disney displays its movie force with 'Star Wars,' 'Frozen,' Marvel... 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

The bas relief on the eastern wall alone — a stone mural stretching about 76 yards — involved over 1,500 sandstone blocks, each contributing its own piece of an epic story. Homestay among the ruins in Cambodia 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

She also points out that stories like “The Book of Harlem” differed from Hurston’s fellow writers’ treatments of the epic journey from South to North by persistently flashing elements of wit. The Harlem Renaissance Through Zora Neale Hurston’s Eyes 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

For almost two hours, the audience looked on as epic and often metaphysical questions—of faith, language, taste, value, ownership, legacy—were debated with ferocious intensity. What Happened After Mexico’s Greatest Architect Was Turned Into a Diamond 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

An insider's glimpse of an epically dysfunctional family, it is shot through with deep affection and tenderness. The Garden: Alessandro Imbriaco photographs one family's exile to Eden 2013-02-15T12:27:38Z

The epic battles of armies and wits from the Three Kingdoms era inspired the classic Chinese novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and countless TV and film adaptations. Donnie Yen tackles iconic Three Kingdoms general 2011-04-22T16:16:08Z

The tales depicted in shows are based on a Khmer version of the Ramayana, the Sanskrit epics of ancient India. Coronavirus brings curtain down on Cambodia shadow puppet theatre 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Potential backlash from some critics who have yet to see it would dampen some of the buzz – but the timely subject matter coupled with passionate audience approval could take this ambitious epic the distance. And the Oscar might go to: the sure bets and underdogs critics have already seen 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

The best movies of that bunch, "Wonder Woman" and "Aquaman," have their funny moments, but all still firmly feel like traditional superhero epics, in addition to connecting themselves to a grander universe of superhero movies. "Shazam!" understands why kids fall in love with superheroes 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Tolkien, though, de la Mare eschews massive bloodshed, let alone an epic confrontation between good and evil. Review | Revisiting a forgotten children’s book by one of the 20th century’s most distinctive writers 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

It's religious doctrine as bedtime fable, and suitable fodder for a movie epic. Clash of the Titans: A Hit from a Myth 2010-04-02T09:20:00Z

It’s interspersed with footage of them running across Dartmoor’s epic landscape. Five film highlights from the 2019 Kendal Mountain Festival 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

As he recounts his epic tale, with the days stretching into months adrift, the story becomes more and more fanciful, the imagery more spectacular. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-04-27T05:00:17Z

Consisting of six, feature-length episodes, Season 8 is going out in aptly epic style — and setting a high bar for the greenlit prequel series to match, whenever it arrives. 19 HBO original programs to be excited about in 2019 — "True Detective," "Watchmen," and more 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

But “Deacon King Kong” is not simply a retelling of an ancient epic. Review | James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ offers a rollicking examination of a Brooklyn community 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

“The Suicide Squad” was an epic production, too, boasting the biggest sets in Warner Bros. history. Director James Gunn assembles his perfect ‘Suicide Squad’ 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

A work of movement-theater, lyrically directed and designed by Jessica Grindstaff, the production enlisted a forest of woodland creatures in a collage of fables, fairly tales and epics depicting fraught encounters between humans and nature. Inspired, enchanting puppet theater with a punch: the eco-themed 'Memory Rings' 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

He’s been compared to Ginsberg, but Whitman might be more apt: his themes were universal; his psalms were epic. See Leonard Cohen's Life in Pictures 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Its climax — which Liszt achieves by working the extreme ends of the piano simultaneously, to delicately epic effect — spoke for the recital as a whole, judiciously balanced yet thrilling. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

The length itself, and the epic nature of the piece. 'Curious Incident' director Marianne Elliott isn't afraid of big risks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

That epic scope and size, which I think you get from him better than any director I know of. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain on ‘Interstellar’ 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Spielberg's "Terra Nova" is an epic that follows a family from 2149 as it goes back to prehistoric times trying to save the Earth. Fox network reveals stable new fall schedule 2010-05-17T15:46:00Z

The question therefore hanging over The Promise, his epic four-part dramatisation of the Jewish-Arab conflict, was: if Kosminsky could be so empathetic towards terrorists in Britain, what would he make of the situation in Israel? Rewind TV: The Promise; Mad Dogs; Outcasts ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:33Z

“The Carolina Herrera woman is looking for epic clothes,” he said, “strong clothes for strong women.” Carolina Herrera brings splashes of color on Valentine’s Day 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

I just wanted to make it as epic and dramatic as possible. | Q. & A.: Just a Man, Singing About a Muppet, Who's Singing About a Man 2011-12-12T15:00:39Z

As the coronavirus ravaged the world, Helen Frederick thought of the Ramayana, the sacred Hindu epic. Review | In the galleries: Finding inspiration in a mythical herb 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

You see two hours of it strung together, you get a sense of the scale of the epic and scale of the relationships and the scale of the fanboyism versus the emotionalism of the film. James Horner on creating a 'sound world' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

That sounds right, especially when you consider the daunting challenge of memorizing and reciting works as long as the Homeric epics. Book review: ‘Why Homer Matters,’ by Adam Nicholson 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Rex Features Will Smith looks set to reinvent his cheery everyman persona by signing up for the latest biblical epic to gain traction in Hollywood: the story of Cain and Abel. Oh, brother: Will Smith considers Cain and Abel film 2012-07-13T11:43:24Z

As the inspector opens cabinets and peers under baseboards, the tenant speaks about his life, a recitation that builds into a miniature epic of loneliness, struggle and his self-described broken spirit. ‘City Hall’ Review: Frederick Wiseman, for the People 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

Throwing off any lingering suspicions that they are a subs' bench New Order, their triumphant set dips deeper into techno and displays a promising taste for the epic. Evolution festival 2010-06-01T20:29:00Z

He has sold 20 million print, audio and e-books, Sanderson said, including titles such as “Rhythm of War,” an epic fantasy novel about a coalition of humans resisting an enemy invasion. Fantasy Author Raises $15.4 Million in 24 Hours to Self-Publish 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

These chapters, unlike the “books” of epic poetry, were what we would now call finding aids: devices for quickly locating specific material in long texts that were not meant to be read straight through. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

A futuristic sci-fi apparently: "An epic human story, set in a futuristic world without humanity." First sight: Gareth Edwards 2010-09-23T21:33:00Z

Kathryn Howell, an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University who has studied publicly subsidized development in the District, calls the Wharf an epic missed opportunity to use city-owned land to require more affordable housing. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Every movie becomes, for me, autobiographical,” Mr. Bertolucci announced rather gratuitously in 1977, right before the American premiere of his vexed epic “1900.” Film: Shifting Amid, and Asserting, His Own Cinema 2010-12-10T21:22:00Z

Aside from that book, Mitchell is now best known for two things: breaking the rules of nonfiction and an epic case of writer’s block. Review: ‘Man in Profile’ Studies Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

A dourness persists through all 10 episodes, which were written and conceived as an epic film. NBC’s ‘Emerald City’ travels to a violent Oz that wants to be the next Westeros 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

And then as now, a Christopher Nolan Batman epic, The Dark Knight, held on to the No. 1 spot — and enjoyed the same 39% bump from Friday to Saturday. The Dark Knight Rises Again: What 'Aurora Effect'? 2012-07-29T22:51:11Z

The Brexit vote was, by many well-informed accounts, an own goal of epic proportions; but that has not mitigated the Conservative government’s commitment to enact the mandate. An Anthem to England, Football, and English Defeatedness 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

Whatever extreme feats of strength, agility, and dexterity they demonstrate are the result of years of bench pressing the weight of their people's pride and the epic myth that infuses Indian culture. Forget "Top Gun." "RRR" is the ultimate summer movie – explosive, inspiring & with catchy dance beat 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Like movies, they dramatized and romanticized epic events: wars, natural disasters, biblical stories. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Take an epic journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic and encounter the deadliest animals – and forces of nature — on Earth. Filmmaker focuses on a captive panda’s return to the wild 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

The other sees Shiv publicly humiliated to an extent that warrants epic payback. The Roys never had a chance: "Succession" sells Alexander Skarsgård as TV's finest Viking conqueror 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

When Veblen brings Paul to meet her mother and stepfather, the epic debacle — hilarious yet also wince-inducing — both exacerbates the couple's problems and makes them harder to confront. 'The Portable Veblen' is deep, wise and eccentric ... and full of squirrels 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

“A musical is more epic than a play,” he said. Playwrights Shuttle to TV and Back 2010-11-19T20:43:00Z

On paper the adaptation looks shipshape, embedding compact dramatic incidents and scenes of high adventure in a sweeping epic tapestry. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z

An epic action-adventure suffused with court and sexual intrigue, horseback battles and martial arts, the show also filmed on location along the canals of Venice and on the snow-swept steppe of Kazakhstan. 'Marco Polo' brings the court of Kublai Khan to Netflix 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Do you think there's a spot anymore for the expensive, epic, "Thriller"-type music video? 2010-01-25T08:10:00Z

Luckily, the stars aligned in an epic way for the plan to continue. Man stages epic proposal before NEOWISE comet only visible every 6,800 years 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

As with the other songs in this epic day, the arrangement and lyrics are good to go from take one, it’s just a matter of extracting the perfect take. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Yet the film still is an epic period saga, with Spielberg masterfully marshaling his own filmmaking army to recreate the capital in the last days of the Civil War. AP writers pick `Argo' for Oscar best picture 2013-02-21T17:46:04Z

“Budweiser Discovery Reserve is our tribute to this epic moment in history, one that will certainly continue to inspire generations of present and future explorers.” Budweiser launches commemorative Apollo 11 Moon landing beer 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Fiftieth anniversary restoration of David Lean's epic desert classic. This week's new films 2012-11-17T00:05:24Z

The bearded songwriter walked on stage, strapped on an acoustic guitar and then strummed it brusquely, as if to punish the strings for their epic silence. Neutral Milk Hotel at the Riviera concert review 2014-02-07T06:28:00Z

Some of those hauls have been epic: Paeper once got his hands on a portion of the personal stash of an L.A. Alias Books in West L.A., which opened in 1959, is closing 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Watch one of Hollywood’s biggest films on the small screen when TCM shows this epic, which turns 60 this year. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Support the Girls’ and ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

In a playful video posted to her TikTok last week, the director — just days before the release of his latest epic, “Killers of the Flower Moon” — conducted a very important, very serious audition with Oscar. Martin and Francesca Scorsese, TikTok’s Dynamic Duo 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

It’s the epic confrontation that every fan of FX’s hit thriller, “The Strain,” has been waiting for all season: the show’s two oft-at-odds heroes unite and battle it out against the common foe. 'The Strain' recap: The Master, crispy around the edges, still lives 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

A memoir in the same year, A Fish in the Water, included what one reviewer termed an "epic whinge" about his failed presidential campaign. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z

New York Says Thank You is an epic story following the journey of New Yorkers whose lives were touched by September 11 as they travel the country helping communities rebuild after disasters. ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z

The British actress Jessie Mei Li is appealing as the heroine, a cartographer who learns she has magical ability on an epic scale, which she is still trying to control in Season 2. Winter TV: 24 Shows to Keep an Eye On 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

From the paradoxically upbeat shimmer of The Girl Is Gone to the epic tragedy of Lorna Doone, the album heaves and thumps under the weight of heartbreak. Mystery Jets: Serotonin 2010-07-01T21:29:00Z

“So we could try to make every season an epic movie as opposed to 24 individual little short films.” CBS?s ?How I Met Your Mother,? Late-Blooming Hit 2012-04-08T19:08:15Z

Hijuelos won the Pulitzer for the 1989 novel "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,"  a family epic set mostly in New York that tells the story of a pair of Cuban immigrant musicians. An epic, posthumous novel from Oscar Hijuelos to be published 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The film had only taken one award – for best original screenplay – in the ceremony, and momentum appeared to be with The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s epic western, which had won best director, actor and cinematography. Oscars 2016: Spotlight shocks as DiCaprio takes actor and Mad Max scorches competition 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

There is a fierce, ecstatic quality to Mr. Johnson’s strongest work that lends his characters and their stories an epic, almost mythic dimension, in the best American tradition of Melville and Whitman. Denis Johnson’s Poetic Visions of a Fallen World 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

But it renders BoJack’s dysfunction small and sad rather than epic and tragic. ‘BoJack Horseman’ and ‘The Good Place’ Took Us to Hell and Back 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

“You shot a saga, but you turned in a trailer. Go back and make a picture,” he barked at Coppola, who duly went away and came back with the epic that made his name. Robert Evans: eloquent and passionate midwife to the Hollywood new wave | Peter Bradshaw 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

One move to a Wisconsin studio, April Base, and those two-dozen-plus guest musicians later, Relayted had changed shape considerably and grown into something rather bigger and more epic. New band of the day ? No 757: Gayngs 2010-03-30T16:12:00Z

Beneath this formidable timepiece, a series of scenes melt into one another, approximating cinematic cross-cutting, while managing to feel both epic and intimate. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Raises the Bar for Broadway Magic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

I know almost nothing about it except that it’s really good and it’s epic, and I’m in that kind of mood. Susan Orlean: By the Book 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

It had been two weeks since they’d had “a yelling match of epic proportions,” she writes. A ‘Rogue Ballerina’ Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

Rockstar Games made epic, if less cinematic, fame with its revered "Grand Theft Auto" franchise. Game On: 'L.A. Noire' arresting 2011-05-31T19:24:04Z

Soon you realize these epic works are less about the bodies they portray than the way the eye sees. ‘Chuck Close Photographs’ is about more than photography 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

In “Black Sun,” the first book in a projected trilogy, she draws on pre-Columbian civilizations to tell an epic story, centering on a mysterious young man, Serapio, who sets out to avenge a crime. 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Layer upon layer of creamy lemon-vanilla mascarpone, strawberry rhubarb jam, and crispy graham crackers chill together and are topped with nutty brittle to make an epic make-ahead dessert. Strawberry-rhubarb icebox cake with pistachio brittle is an epic make-ahead dessert 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

A true cinematic epic along the lines of David Lean's great works. Scarecrow Video suggestions for "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" 2011-05-18T13:12:51Z

Emma will always have “infinite tenderness for her”, she says, but Kechiche’s intimate epic understands that recovering from a breakup is mostly about mending the split within yourself. Casablanca to Starship Troopers: the movie breakups that hit our writers hardest 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The menu isn’t epic, but if you need to whittle down the possibilities, cut from consideration the metallic-tasting grilled broccoli and the carrots that are not flattered by black garlic and dates. Review | The stars align at St. Anselm, a tavern for the times 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

The grand epic nature of the story eclipses the incensed intimacy of this clan. With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

The structure, in which apparently unrelated narratives accumulate into an alternative history of the 20th century, hints at the sympathetic effect of Don DeLillo's epic of American paranoia, Underworld. The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott – review 2012-06-29T07:00:02Z

Echoes of revolution are heard from his native Russia, and he undertakes an epic journey home. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

It is a truly engrossing volume, whose epic sweep reflects the grandeur and paradoxes of its subject. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

In the video, the epic lineup of rappers face off an army of prison guards, although Hov and Future are the only contributing vocalists on the track, lending their distinctive styles between DJ Khaled’s hypes. DJ Khaled Drops "I Got the Keys" Video With Jay Z and Future 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing like an old-fashioned epic to remind us why we fell in love with the movies in the first place, and two new DVDs fit that description to a T. Kenneth Turan's DVD picks: 'Ben-Hur,' 'Far From the Madding Crowd' 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Thursday night was the final episode of “The Colbert Report,” and the musical extravaganza sendoff was absolutely epic. “The Colbert Report’s” final segment ever is absolutely epic 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

“Somebody likes flowers,” a dining companion says as he takes in the garden captured on the theater-length drapes in the epic 350-seat Main Dining Room. Review | At the Greenbrier, ‘everything is possible’ — except a great dinner 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

My issue is that I’m self-consciously ruining my current job through truly epic levels of procrastination. I’m avoiding work 2013-02-07T01:00:00Z

“What we’re doing is revolutionary,” says Donohue, who promises an “epic” twist on the musical from director Thomas Kail, who also directed the Broadway smash Hamilton. Kether Donohue on Why 'Grease: Live' Will Be 'Epic' 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Made in the late 1830s, they apply lessons gleaned from some two decades of studying harbors and coastlines to tales from history and epic poetry. That Visionary Wharf Rat, J.M.W. Turner 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

In the nearly 5-minute video, you’ll see how majestic landscapes were turned into crowded cityscapes and witness the construction of the show’s epic battles. Watch a montage of visual effects for “Game of Thrones’” Season 4 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Next summer the group is introducing its second “epic” historical cycling tour, the Napoleon Expedition, a 45-day journey from Paris to Moscow. Biking Napoleon's Route 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Academy Awards is the World Cup of award shows – we expect to see something epic and emotional. Does awards season turn you off? 2011-02-11T14:32:55Z

Most epic is “Niagara #2,” which distills the famed falls to mists, clouds and a few patches of startlingly green water. In the galleries: An artist’s past, present and future 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

It was written with a new collaborator, the soundtrack composer Tyler Bates, known for adventure and sci-fi epics like “300” and “Guardians of the Galaxy.” A Dark Prince Steps Into the Light 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Even though director Alan Taylor was best known for working on "Game of Thrones," he failed to bring the sense of epic grandeur to the series that Branagh gave to the first "Thor" film. What's the legacy of The Infinity Saga? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

It possesses echoes of the saga, shades of the epic, and tassels of the New Age. Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories 2012-10-10T10:33:31Z

On one occasion in which J. A. McCullough is interviewed, she meets a famous female novelist whose Texas epic has been turned into a James Dean movie. Books of The Times: ‘The Son,’ a Novel by Philipp Meyer 2013-06-19T21:01:43Z

This was nostalgia with the blinkers off, an epic saga in miniature. The Long Day Closes: The Passion of Terence Davies 2012-03-23T22:27:48Z

This is like a massive epic, it's too big. "Jupiter's Legacy" writer on the rise of superhero "autocrats" and looking a gift god in the mouth 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

Moreover, by the second lingering closeup of a horse’s eye or the sixth epic landscape shot with four-fifths sky and one-fifth land, even those sophisticated visuals begin to feel repetitive. How historically accurate is The Revenant? 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Yet there’s something eerily prescient about his calling for a Protestant epic, because that’s exactly what his novels, the Rabbit books especially, amount to. Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania 2010-06-21T14:48:00Z

But the compulsive pursuit of beauty — and of beauties — makes “Miral” feel like an epic perfume commercial. | 'Miral': Hopes and Struggles in a Difficult Land 2011-03-24T21:53:01Z

“My stories are not epic. They are about the everyday.” From 2 Artists, 2 Ways to Tell Stories of Black America 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

It will be a sad, but undoubtedly epic episode. 8 Things We'd Like to See on the Final Episode of 'The Colbert Report' 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

With so many of us owing our lives to ancestors who risked theirs emigrating to the U.S., it’s important to learn about their epic journey. Europe’s emigration museums: Remembering the long goodbye 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

It isn’t to say, either, that representing war is an impossible enterprise, or that documentary or testimonial modes have more limited aims than abstraction or epic. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

A Bard concert on Aug. 14 will reconstruct these epic programs, bringing together composers from Palestrina and Monteverdi to Stravinsky and Hindemith. She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Even worse, Mortensen was a West Coast leader of the Pictorialist school, manipulating his images at will with brush and razor blade, adding texture to portraits and epic historical tableaux. Pictorialist William Mortensen, reviled by Ansel Adams, gets new respect 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

That chapter reads like one of the animal fables from the ancient Indian epic “The Panchatantra,” set in a modern era. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

The list includes a western, science fiction, horror, a swashbuckler, a romance, an epic drama, a cartoon and other pleasures. The 10 greatest sequels of all time 2011-05-27T23:30:00Z

Of course, no one has to do anything in this epic celebrity mess. Charlie Sheen, a star on the verge of a nervous breakdown, grips and revulses America 2011-03-06T00:15:46Z

At six hours, this qualifies as epic event theater, but dinner and dessert are served during the intermissions. Theater Listings for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:14:01Z

The biggest to fall victim was the World War II epic “The Eight Hundred” by director Guan Hu with a reported budget of $80 million. China film industry's 'bleak winter' deepens as coronavirus adds to censorship woes 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

After an epic escape, the couple wind up at a skate party where Leguizamo reveals himself as one of the “kidnappers.” Watch Justin Bieber's Long-Awaited Video for 'What Do You Mean' 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

The film, based on Tolstoy's epic novel, had an astronomical budget of $6 million. Cinecitt?: Celebrating 75 Years of the Venerable Italian Studios 2012-04-27T10:45:01Z

"I want the album to be kind of epic." SXSW: The rapid rise of Moses Sumney 2014-03-13T05:52:00Z

But My Morning Jacket holds it together with genuine joy, simple self-questioning lyrics and gorgeous mood — in other words, perfect music for an epic rock show. My Morning Jacket zips into the Paramount Sunday 2011-06-23T20:48:04Z

It may not have the epic scale of Breaking Bad, but it makes up for that in warmth and wit, and tragedy. Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk: ‘Trump’s ego is so destructive, it’s hilarious. Until he gets elected’ 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

“I could have landed them $1 million because the show is so epic, and they turned it down so everyone would have a good time.” Hollywood Celebrities Choose Sides in Presidential Race 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

Given the show’s epic story and production, Nair, who grew up in India but is based in New York, has jokingly described it as “‘The Crown’ in Brown.” ‘A Suitable Boy’ Finally Finds Its Perfect Match: Mira Nair 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

If it sounds like the plot from Orson Welles’ infamous Martian invasion epic “War of the Worlds” — it is. Essential Art & Culture: The L.A. Phil at 100, Plácido's L.A. decades, getting funny with Shakespeare 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

I do find myself returning increasingly to early epics, which then make their ways in unexpected forms into my books. The Classic Novel That Robert Macfarlane Just Couldn’t Finish 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

Cousins premiered his “The Story of Film: A New Generation,” a new installment to the epic undertaking of his “The Story of Film: An Odyssey,” a 15-hour project spanning the history of movies. Even in Cannes, Mark Cousins stands out as a movie diehard 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

His scheme is the foundation of Gogol’s masterpiece, a comic novel that he conceived as the cornerstone of a national epic. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

But when you get an ensemble as fully immersed in the material as the Steppenwolf company was in Letts's family epic, the result is pretty much unbeatable. Are British actors the world's best? 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z

No less extraordinary is the fact that all this fuss is not for some grand historical epic – but for The Muppets 2. Set designer Eve Stewart: 'Get me nine tons of Scottish seaweed!' 2013-02-03T20:00:03Z

Instead Daft Punk took snippets from two long interviews with the producer and layered them over an epic track incorporating a pastiche of the Moroder sound. Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album 2013-05-15T12:00:18Z

Even The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button – ostensibly an Oscar-baiting romantic epic – is preoccupied with grief. David Fincher on Gone Girl: ‘Bad things happen in this movie…’ 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

And wrapping up all of the stories in this sprawling epic is going to be a ponderous task. Now, where were we? “Game of Thrones” returns with an hour that resets the board 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

Crowe is on Long Island filming a new biblical epic, Noah. Crowe gets lost on kayaking trip 2012-09-03T10:46:54Z

If you call “Turtle: The Incredible Journey” an “epic adventure,” as a poster for the movie puts it, perhaps such digital manipulations are no big deal. | 'Turtle: The Incredible Journey': The Call of the Wild, Heeded With Tenacity 2011-06-23T21:49:05Z

The battles Coppola fought while making his 1979 epic nearly destroyed him. Q&A: Francis Ford Coppola on ‘Apocalypse Now’ 40 years later 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Actor Chris Evans this week revealed the packed shooting schedule for Avengers: Infinity War, an epic two-part sequel that will be filmed back-to-back in as little as nine months. The 2-Part 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Sequel Will Take 9 Months to Shoot 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Stonewall,” Roland Emmerich’s would-be epic film about a turning point in the gay liberation movement in 1969, is far from the first historical movie to choke on its own noble intentions. For ‘Stonewall,’ an Indiana-Born Avatar 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

There are long epic songs, and the comparisons are pretty obvious. Numero Group: the crate-digging record label's top 10 2013-06-13T16:05:50Z

And she sees him in the peacock with the epic tail feathers that stood sentry in her front yard while she sat shiva inside. A Father Chose to End His Life at 92. His Daughter Hit Record. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Luminous and bold, elegant and elliptical, epic and novelettish, Cather's story reflects the paradoxes of the small town on the wild prairie of its setting, and of its pioneering author. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z

Join AD on a tour of the epic setting of The Sound of Music. Tour Salzburg, Austria—the Iconic Setting of The Sound of Music 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

So perhaps it's not surprising that a promising Chicago jazz pianist, Josh Moshier, has composed an epic work exploring Terkel's connection to a music as indelibly associated with Chicago as Terkel himself. An ode to Studs Terkel – conceived in jazz 2011-01-17T15:04:00Z

It also benefits from being performed in the round in a tiny studio theater that lends a close, human quality to an otherwise epic story. Orpheus and Eurydice get a feminist re-imagining in Seattle Opera’s intimate ‘O+E’ 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Lean was the kind of director whose destiny was to make epics and whose destiny itself was epic. Greatest Oscar winners ever: who is the best director of all time? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

It’s a minor-key mob epic; a movie about mobsters growing old, about our favourite actors famed for mob roles getting old, and about getting old generally. Marriage Story and The Irishman deserve awards love, but no Greta Gerwig is heart-sinking | Peter Bradshaw 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

These arose as byproducts of oral composition — “pitons,” Mendelsohn calls them, “stuck into the vast face of the epic” to provide a momentary respite for both bard and hearers. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Selznick’s pictures tended to be huge and epic, like “Gone With the Wind,” “A Star Is Born” and “David Copperfield.” "Rebecca" is what you get if you ask Alfred Hitchcock to manage up while crafting gothic drama 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

That said, black history is also made of stories that astonish, from human beings epic in their bravery and ingenuity. Poet Elizabeth Alexander celebrates the power of a people’s voice 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Judges said his work was "an epic and hugely topical investigation into the ways in which we feed ourselves". Photographer Michael Schmidt dies 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Lee’s epic and electrifying solos on his Gibson guitar for the 11-minute performance were immortalized in the documentary film about the legendary festival. Rock Guitarist Alvin Lee, 68, Dies 2013-03-07T06:06:58Z

And of course the line most apt today, from Walt Whitman’s epic poem, by way of “Dead Poets Society.” Robin Williams dies: Six of his movie quotes that matter most 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

I felt like I was in this epic acting school that I didn’t have to pay for. The All-Stars of ‘Star Wars’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Set initially in a small southern coastal town during World War II and then London during the years following, "Foyle's War" is a historical epic disguised as a British detective series. A case for an Emmy (or more) for 'Foyle's War' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

On Acoustic at the Ryman, such moments of epic interplay are switched out for pianos and acoustic guitars, but the vocals remain powerful. Band of Horses Captures Magic of a Live Show on New Acoustic Album 2014-02-13T22:31:14Z

Taking on the role of Sabina in this messy epic by Thornton Wilder, nebulously set between prehistory and the end of the world, is a hard enough task for any actor. ‘Bold Enough to Go Full-Tilt’: Gabby Beans Is Playing to the Balcony 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

An epic video installation running for 24 hours, constructed out of thousands of fragments of film, it's boggling in its audacity. Frieze fringe: the weekend's best free contemporary art 2010-10-15T14:28:00Z

I mean, this is just totally and completely epic. Aldi’s best Christmas food gifts are all under $10 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

That's a lot pressure for any new series, especially when you consider that we already know how Saul's story ends: not in an epic fashion. 'Better Call Saul' the real deal, and Odenkirk delivers goods 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

And this week we saw the debut trailer for next March’s Captain Marvel, featuring a version of Samuel L Jackson’s Nick Fury restored to his 1990s prime for the period-set superhero epic. Act your age: why Marvel is obsessed with digitally de-ageing Hollywood stars 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Like the Rock himself, Maui is built of epic physical proportions and is bedecked in body art. The Rock Is a God With a Magic Fishhook In 'Moana' Teaser 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Love is a remarkable force, capable of inspiring extraordinary self-sacrifice and delivering untold pain but, for most of us, our lives play out on a more micro-scale than the epic tragedy. My mum loves me, but doesn’t really know me | Dear Mariella 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z

But I think it has an epic feel to it. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

Movie studios sustained some devastating flops in 2013, among them the samurai epic “47 Ronin,” which limped into theaters on Christmas. The Movies With Pasts Ruled the Year 2013-12-29T22:26:14Z

Recounting part of the epic Ramayana, Ms. Subramanian shifted among a large cast of characters, male and female, and an array of emotions, with virtuosic clarity. Dance Review: ‘Dancing the Gods,’ a Festival of Indian Movement 2014-04-29T20:20:23Z

More than a million men on both sides were wounded or killed there during an epically brutal stalemate that dragged on from early July to mid-November of 1916. J.R.R. Tolkien’s war experiences inspire his grandson’s novel, ‘No Man’s Land’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

He’s meticulous, thoughtful, innovative, tending toward the epic while also humanizing. Amanda Knox: By the Book 2013-05-07T18:24:20Z

This thunderous tidbit was actually the last gasp of an epic Warner Bros panel that featured plenty of surprises on Saturday morning. Batman v Superman confirmed at Comic-Con in 'beyond mythological' mash-up 2013-07-21T07:32:00Z

The art museum idea was born of the European Enlightenment, which emerged in the 18th century from epic, often brutal colonial adventuring around the world. The new LACMA: Plans call for radical change to how we see the permanent collection 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

It is reminiscent of Molly Bloom’s epic soliloquy in Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The later works in the epic series, which have been published at a rate of roughly once a decade, have more than lived up to the promise of the first, in Mr. O’Brien’s view. Conan O’Brien’s Unrequited Fanboy Love for Robert Caro 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Sam Mendes' epic WWI thriller had Oscar bait written all over it and looked to steal the thunder from the more controversial "Joker," and it's easy to see why. The best new movies you can watch from home in March 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

But other 19th-century American painters working in the grand manner included Thomas Cole, who created cinematic cycles of symbolic paintings, and Albert Bierstadt, who painted epic and aggrandizing landscapes of the American West. Perspective | America needs an epic narrative right now. Painters are working on it. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

“Shocking moment to shocking moment. Epic moment to epic moment. It’s mental; it’s epic. And definitely Dany’s a part of it.” Emilia Clarke says Game of Thrones Season 6 Will Be 'Epic' 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

This is a rare bird, an epic, complex, intelligent war picture, with the production values and complexity of The Bridge on the River Kwai. Battling on: what Russia's unrelenting appetite for second world war films means 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

All of this translates to a veritable mountain horde of riches for high fantasy enthusiasts, who find themselves in the rare position of being treated to two epic series at once. Who needs Westeros? "Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" is a spectacular return to Middle-earth 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

They funnel all of their experimental impulses into just two multi-part songs, Love Like a Sunset and Bankrupt!, which they merge tonight into one prog-rave epic, illustrated with symmetrical searchlights and flashing strobes. Phoenix – review 2013-04-23T14:10:11Z

“To the Bright Edge of the World” has much more epic ambitions. ‘To the Bright Edge of the World’: A terrific tale of Alaskan adventure 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Elements drawn from the hundred years war and the Italian Renaissance, from Chrétien de Troyes and Icelandic epic, fuse to seamless effect. 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' 2013-03-24T19:00:01Z

From Reine, the main village, you can hike up to epic viewpoint Reinebringen, or take ferries to explore other, smaller islands. Searching for the remote: Cabo Raso, Patagonia’s coastal ghost town 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

It reminds us not to get too literal, that the theatre supports metaphorical worlds in which stories can become epic, and that a play needn't be well behaved or tidy for it to be robust. Sarah Kane's debut play Blasted returns 2010-10-24T20:31:00Z

But as an epic of a dark age, complex and shaded, “Secret City” is rewarding in the extreme. ‘Secret City,’ an Epic Narrative History of the Closet in the Capital 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

But his acts of defiance remain small compared with his bluster, and the story becomes one of personal loss rather than epic adventure. Movie Review: ‘Savannah,’ a True Story From the South of Long Ago 2013-08-22T22:09:38Z

“Instead of decimation,” he said, “the show is about heroes on this great epic quest.” | Television: The New Season: ‘Revolution’ on NBC 2012-09-09T19:57:24Z

“It will be as epic and grand as the current production,” Mr. Gelb said, “in a completely different way.” After 31 Years, Farewell to the Met Opera’s Grand, Gaudy ‘Aida’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

To her, we were naturally literary and epic. Toni Morrison and What Our Mothers Couldn’t Say 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

In this informal space, the performance seemed epic. Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

These were period shows of epic sweep, with propulsive electronic scores that force-marched you across decades of political struggle and strife. Review: In ‘Lempicka,’ Blond Ambition Is Set in a New Key 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Dominic Maxwell, writing in The Times of London, said that it was “one thing” to have the idea of turning “Die Hard” into an epic poem. Yippee Ki Yay: ‘Die Hard’ Comes to the Christmas Stage 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

New Zealander  was the unexpected candidate with the epic vision to match Tolkien's richly detailed text. The Lord of the Rings trilogy: No 18 2010-10-21T10:37:00Z

Hahn sustained an epic sense of line through cycles of harmonic tension and release, driving the music to its ecstatic climaxes with utter inevitability and retreating inward with doleful whispers. Review | Hilary Hahn shows mature artistry with Bach violin solos 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

They're participating in the "rap sessions," these epic marathon peer counseling workshops filled with personal attacks from the other students. Where's Daniel Yuen? "The Lost Kids" podcast probes ties between "troubled teen" camp and '60s cult 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Coming up first, though, is Triple Nine, a heist action flick with Kate Winslet, and Exodus, Ridley Scott’s hyped biblical epic, in which Paul will play Joshua, opposite Christan Bale as Moses. Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul: ‘I miss Jesse Pinkman’ 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Her uncredited screen debut was in Lady Godiva Rides Again in 1951 as an entrant to a beauty contest, while Egyptian epic Land of the Pharaohs four years later grabbed her greater attention. Joan Collins: Profile 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Hannity returned to the issue on his show Wednesday and Thursday, referring to an "epic meltdown" by the "incoherent congressman." Minn. congressman's TV spat a chance to make money 2013-03-01T21:54:08Z

Jason also meets the polyglot acting sensation that is Édgar Ramírez, who plays the infamous international terrorist 'The Jackal' in Olivier Assayas' epic biographical film Carlos. Film Weekly asks Mark Ruffalo if The Kids Are All Right 2010-10-27T18:56:00Z

The Stones will be epic, but it'll be like watching them on telly. Move over, Rolling Stones – here come the Bootleg Beatles 2013-06-30T13:15:38Z

Visitors will play the part of weary Greek travelers, traversing the park to see seven “processionals” enacting stories from Homer’s epic poem. ?Odysseus at Hell Gate,? to Play at Socrates Sculpture Park 2011-08-26T23:32:43Z

Some admirers are comparing “Smaug’s” jovial spirit to the high-water mark of Jackson’s career, his epic “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Director talks about expanding ‘Hobbit,’ dragon anxiety 2013-12-12T00:32:07Z

They will follow the first Hollow Crown films, the epic adaptations of Shakespeare's Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V that were broadcast in 2012. Roses reteams Cumberbatch and Scott 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

The odd keepsake remains a tangible reminder of the unusual production in which the three fantasy epics, adapted from the J.R.R. Elijah Wood on ‘The Lord of the Rings’ at 20 and Being Frodo to Fans Forever 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

This year's festival closes in somber contrast the following night with Simon Rattle leading the Vienna Philharmonic in Elgar's profoundly humorless spiritual epic of repentance, "The Dream of Gerontius." At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

The Artist, set in Hollywood of the late 1920s, when Douglas Fairbanks’ swashbuckling epics dominated the screen, was made by a Frenchman, Michel Hazanavicius. Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan 2011-11-17T15:13:07Z

The catalog of Llewyn’s lapses is extensive and fills the spectrum from casual bad manners to epic jerkiness. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z

Worst of all, Boll assumes that the epic nature of the genre requires him to stretch out the horror to a bum-numbing two and a half hours – though it feels even longer. The 'world's worst director': are Uwe Boll's movies really that bad? 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

And for her first pick, she has chosen “Wild,” by Cheryl Strayed, a nonfiction retelling of the author’s epic hike of the Pacific Crest Trail that was published in March by Knopf. Media Decoder Blog: The Return of Oprah's Book Club 2012-06-01T22:03:03Z

Anchored by Allman's rhythmic keyboards and whiskey-tinged voice, the band found some success on radio, but its reputation was forged through a barnstorming tour schedule and epic live concerts. Gregg Allman 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

It’s not just that it’s an epic Hero’s Quest narrative centered entirely around a white, straight guy. Why does the Magicians trilogy keep raping and killing off its best characters? 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

The subsequent centuries were lousy with Valentine-related poetry and literary references—including the well-known "roses are red" line, which scholars trace to an epic poem by Edmund Spenser. The Victorian origins of the heart-shaped chocolate box 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

Her original ambivalence about having a child was answered with an epically colicky baby who seemed angry from the outset. About a (Bad) Boy 2011-12-08T13:15:55Z

And though epically and in some cases tragically destructive, The Flood is also about healing. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z

What did Legend, who studied African-American literature at University, make of the controversy surrounding Tarantino's grand slavery epic? John Legend talks 'Love In The Future' 2013-04-17T00:14:07Z

The movie, in which Fawcett goes in search of a previously unknown civilization in the Amazon, is a throwback to old-school cinema, a thrilling adventure epic about a character worth rooting for. ‘Lost City of Z’ alters history for the sake of modern audiences. Are we okay with that? 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

When fantasy epic Game of Thrones returns for its final series at 2am on Monday not every fan will need to look at the subtitles as Daenerys Targaryen addresses her army of warriors. Do you you speak High Valyrian? Duolingo launches Game of Thrones language app 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

The best picture Oscar went to another historical epic, “Gladiator.” ‘Parasite’ Is Hoping to Do What These Movies Couldn’t: Win Best Picture 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

A luxurious Catskills resort is haunted for years by a killer in this warmhearted epic about the family of Jewish immigrants that owns the hotel. New & Noteworthy Books, From Italian History to Asian Politics 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

When Christian Bale landed the part of Moses in Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings", the latest epic from the British director, he found unlikely inspiration in Monty Python's irreverent comedy film "Life of Brian". Bale checks 'Life of Brian' to make sure his Moses isn't Pythonesque 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

“On her other records, it’s someone else’s epic poem that she’s running through her own beautiful sense of language and harmony,” Kaufman said. After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Six years after Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai,” John Sturges produced and directed this remake, relocating Kurosawa’s epic from feudal Japan to the American West. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

All the major players in this adventure epic are white and sport British accents. "Prince of Persia" royally blows it 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z

Shaff is one for all the adrenaline junkies with 80 "epic adventures" showing over one "awesome" weekend. This week's new events 2013-02-23T06:00:12Z

His novels resemble the pulp epics of EE "Doc" Smith rewritten by Eugène Ionesco, with logic replaced with absurdity and the rigours of science ignored. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-04T09:00:01Z

The self-consciously epic history series tackles the war of independence, the story of how a plucky proto-nation threw off the shackles of a bullying superpower. America: The Story of the US 2010-09-06T05:45:00Z

The game will provide the inspiration for an "epic sci-fi story", according to film company Threshold Entertainment. Tetris to become movie blockbuster 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

When “The Young Pope” is bad, it’s epically so — laughable, with histrionics and mustache-twirling and bombastic set pieces. Review: ‘The Young Pope’ Is Beautiful and Ridiculous 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

In this case it was the big, epic, lavish sort of costume drama. The Carpetbagger: A Story Known Far and Wide, in Denmark at Least 2013-01-29T22:54:40Z

The scale of this show is grand in every way, and when it is boring, it is epically boring. Netflix's Sense8 is the Wachowskis' very own Lost, with a few big flaws 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

The Academy Award-winning epic Selma is on its way to the classroom. Every High School In The U.S. Will Be Sent A Copy Of 'Selma' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

I really want to do an epic romance. More than meets the eye: Dominique Fishback on becoming a "Transformers" star, "Swarm" serial killer 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

The writing creaks a bit as it tries to persuade us about the epic nature of the breakup, though Odom’s scalding anger and Schneider’s bruised, halting quality nearly pull off that effect. Review | Dramatic tricks abound in new ‘Magic Play’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

He added strings and other elements to the songs he produced, which included George Jones' epic hit "He Stopped Lovin' Her Today." Country stars Ferlin Husky, Jimmy Dean honored 2010-02-24T16:49:00Z

The drum stutters and patty-caking backing vocals embellish the epic, the hard groove luring the inevitable acceptance of the vague story. Dirty Projectors Summon Pure Emotion on About To Die EP 2012-11-01T17:00:13Z

En route to London to discuss the publication of “Here Are the Young Men,” Stanhope Barnes accidentally leaves the only manuscript of this modernist epic on the train. Book review: ‘The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure,’ edited by C.D. Rose

There was the excitingly titled "We Bought a Crack House," in which a Toronto woman described the epic struggle of renovating a 9,000 square foot home in a rundown neighborhood. The joys of hate-reading the rich: Why raging over a wealthy intern’s money diary feels so good 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The board asked that the name of the film be changed to “Padmavat”, to reflect that the source material was an epic poem of the same name and not from actual historical events, Joshi said. India's censors clear Bollywood movie, objectors say protests to conti 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

In March, the company will stage a stark and stylish “Faust,” inspired by Goethe’s epic about a scholar who makes a pact with the Devil. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

An epic friendship begins which brings them to the Duke Of Buckingham's palace to La Rochelle amid a backdrop of political wars, friends and foes are made, and yet their relationship remains solid. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - review 2011-08-04T10:58:26Z

Leading the field with 12 nominations, including one for director Steven Spielberg, the Civil War epic "Lincoln" suddenly looked like the best-picture favorite, almost by default. Does Oscar crown await Affleck's 'Argo?' 2013-02-21T16:23:11Z

We can all cite the influential novels — "Ulysses" and "Mrs. Dalloway," spectacularly — that unfold abundantly over the course of a single epic day. 7 must-read novels to transport you in February 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Ray’s uncle, whose dialogue is projected in English translation on the set, waxes lyrically of his mother’s cooking: “Her kimchi was an epic, her seolleongtang was poetry,” he recalls. Review: ‘Aubergine,’ a Stew of Regret and Impending Loss 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Two Families Become One in World War II With its exhilarating World War II narrative and performances that touch notes intimate and grand, “Simon and the Oaks” has an exquisite, and epic, ache. Movie Review: ‘Simon and the Oaks,’ From Sweden 2012-10-12T17:00:07Z

"If 'Born to Run' was epic cinema, 'Darkness' was brutal reality, its characters not dreaming of idealized escape as much as struggling against their circumstances," notes Springsteen's website. Springsteen 'Born to Run' manuscript at NY auction 2013-12-05T14:25:44Z

At what point does a biblical epic cease to be biblical? The Strange Battle Over Darren Aronofsky’s Noah 2013-10-17T17:14:57Z

The result, no matter what you order, is a meal that weaves an epic culinary narrative in finely rendered and often delicious details. A San Diego Chef Taps the Crosscurrents of the Mexican Border 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

After training as an actor at the National Theater School in Montreal, Mouawad rose to prominence with an epic tetralogy, “The Blood of Promises,” that has been produced all over the world. With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The 1959 epic set records at the time for the money it spent on vast sets and lavish costumes and went on to become a huge box-office success. Huston set to star in Ben-Hur remake 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Robert Falls' epic version emphasized the connection of this family drama to the thunderous emotions and language of classical tragedy. Who is Sylvia? 'Goat' manages to connect to a tricky beast 2011-04-05T13:48:40Z

This one is an epic, melancholy, back-from-the-dead trip, which is apt as the cover art looks like a toothpaste advert for vampires. This week's new tracks 2012-08-10T23:05:29Z

The streaming service is filling three levels of compact Broadway seats with some of the first audiences to see “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s epic gangster drama, this month at the Belasco. ‘The Irishman’ on Broadway: Phone Booths, Broadsheets and Jimmy Hoffa Stickers 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Conceived as a government-sponsored informational video, this documentary is nothing less than a found epic, a real-life environmental allegory and, not least, a stinging comedy about the age-old problem of inconsiderate neighbors. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

But many have aimed to rescue its enchanting, exhilarating Leonard Bernstein score by revising and restaging this unusual comic-operatic epic into a less unwieldy work. Review: A soaring, witty 'Candide' at 5th Avenue 2010-05-28T21:42:00Z

Still, Marlantes’s idiosyncratic approach is to his credit: “Deep River” is an engrossing and commanding historical epic about one immigrant family’s shifting fortunes. Review | ‘Deep River’ bucks every literary trend, and that’s what makes it so charming 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

The parameters of ancient epic duels mirror action film fights. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

Lanterns on the lake in the amazing epic Pallion, available shortly. Watch out north eastern England - Space Invasion is imminent 2012-07-18T07:32:32Z

A chance meeting turned into lattes in your delightful coffee shop and from there a romance of epic proportions was born. Readers and writers remember 2013-06-21T20:58:44Z

His other seminal movies include Out of Africa, Y Tu Mama Tambien and Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves, "epically romantic films, tragic ones more than anything". Drake Doremus on Breathe In: 'I feel a mid-life crisis coming' 2013-07-18T14:20:20Z

In this telling, there are no heroes and, ultimately, no justice, but the whole sordid saga gets lightly burnished by its epic treatment anyway. “Hatfields & McCoys”: No heroes, no humor 2012-05-29T16:45:00Z

An addicting epic — narrated in reverse order — about a female soldier’s effort to recover the corpse of a kidnapped sergeant during the Iraq War. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Organizers on Tuesday announced a shortlist that includes Kingsolver's kaleidoscope of U.S. and Mexican history "The Lacuna," Moore's wry Midwestern tale "A Gate at the Stairs" and Mantel's Tudor epic "Wolf Hall." Kingsolver, Moore compete for Orange fiction prize 2010-04-20T18:46:00Z

A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, Boyhood shimmers with unforced reality. REVIEW: Richard Linklater's Boyhood Is a Thrilling Epic of Ordinary Life 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

And we are publishing the first and second volumes in Robert Merle’s epic, swashbuckling historical fiction series Fortunes of France with "The Brethren" followed later in the year by "City of Wisdom and Blood." Indie spotlight: Pushkin Press 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The epic about a 1930 aboriginal uprising against Taiwan's Japanese rulers is currently up for best feature film at the Venice Film Festival. Historical epic film gets rare honor in Taiwan 2011-09-03T03:11:09Z

The ecclesiastical TV drama – written by Adam Price, creator of the Danish political epic Borgen – started in the UK this week after acclaim in Denmark, France and the US. Lars Mikkelsen: I found God after playing a boozy, lusty priest 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Greg Nicolett: Rob knew I had passion for orchestral film music, and asked me if I could turn his song into an epic symphonic oratorio. "'Shia LaBeouf' Live," an oral history of the Internet's most bombastic meme on its anniversary 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Minsky said she wanted to play with contrasts — the kidnapper and the biological mother, for instance, whom she saw almost as opposing archetypes from a Disney epic. 'Finding Carter' is an unexpected find on MTV 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

No one does epic better than the Met, and this hypnotic, glow-in-the-dark exhibition of 160 objects from 32 museums in mainland China is in that line. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the novel's reinterpretation of a 2,700-year-old epic poem for the 21st century marks something of a cultural revival for the classics. Why the tale of Achilles and his lover still has the power to move us 2012-06-02T23:06:04Z

Inspired by the epic “Bal des Roses” and the grand events flowering in the 1950s after the lean war years, these were pieces as “haute” as couture. Special Report: Fashion: 3 Weddings and a Dior Carnival 2011-07-04T18:10:04Z

This slender novel, which feels like a mere diversion compared with his more epic works, is nonetheless stuffed with ideas and energy. Review: New Books by Anna Gavalda, Daniel Sada, George Singleton and Others 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

The symphonic poem Indra, recorded uncut for the first time, followed three years after the symphony, during a period when Holst was working on his first opera, Sita, based upon the Sanskrit epic The Ramayana. Holst: Whitman Overture; Cotswolds Symphony; Indra; Japanese Suite, etc – review 2012-07-04T14:13:23Z

Months before this year's awards season kicked into gear, the Oscar prospects for Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic already seemed all but written in the stars. Fickle social media can boost, or trip up, Oscar hopefuls in an instant 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Woo more recently has returned to Chinese filmmaking, directing the epic period war drama "Red Cliff," based on a war that took place in China in the 3rd Century. Woo awarded Golden Lion for lifetime achievement 2010-09-03T18:11:00Z

While the guitarist struggled to deal with an "epic break-up that seemed to last for ever", Karen O was tangled up in her own despair. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: they wear it well 2013-04-12T23:01:00Z

For all the effort, "M/M/C" just doesn't yield enough clarity or mythic resonance to make the three-hour-plus epic compelling. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z

The biopic of Pu Yi, China’s last emperor or “Son of Heaven” who is “re-educated” by the Maoist regime, is a fascinating, sumptuous epic, covering nearly 60 years of China’s cataclysmic history. Bernardo Bertolucci obituary 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

The book, too, is epic, combining stills and never-before-seen artwork and ephemera from one of Hollywood's most legendary directors. Authors of grand new book 'Cecil B. DeMille' to sign Thursday 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Lamica, in a statement, called the musical an "epic, music driven dramatic work" and said he is drawing widely from personal experiences. Musical about rise of a superstar heads to Vegas 2012-12-19T18:01:05Z

Thrones may be a fantasy epic, but it's also shaping up to be that oldest of TV formats: a crime mystery. ...and an Oh-No-He-Didn't. Game of Thrones Watch: It's All in the Execution 2011-04-18T19:00:00Z

As in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or "Xena: Warrior Princess," the epic and preposterous blend profitably with the commonplace and casual. Syfy's 'Almighty Johnsons' an amiable take on Norse gods 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

“The Avengers,” with its indulgent action shots of the heroes teamed up, posed or fighting side by side, synthesizes the razzle-dazzle of Hollywood with the earnest heart of fandom, giving us something epic to see. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Whichever singer the contestant picks reveals their vocal abilities in a duet performance with the episode’s special musical guest, which could result in either an epic collaboration or a laughable catastrophe. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Promised Land’ and a Janet Jackson Special 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Leterrier wanted to use 3D cameras to shoot his Greek mythology epic. Titans returns 2010-04-02T08:15:00Z

But the reader knows this epic friendship will end; the gloomy forecast is announced on Page 1. In This Novel of Female Friendship, Birds of a Feather Drift Apart 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

That said, I've never bought into the criticism of the inland holes, and the ocean holes are epic. Tiger, The Tour And Inside The U.S. Open 2010-06-15T22:00:00Z

And then they go off and find the lost Eagle of the Ninth legion, so that's pretty epic. Elizabeth Wein's top 10 dynamic duos in fiction 2013-06-20T12:33:58Z

He searches for words to describe the Cult of the Ring and his fascination with the 19th-century epic. Wagner’s four-opera ‘Ring Cycle’ at Kennedy Center lures swarms of diehard ‘Ringers’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Howard Hughes, the eccentric head of RKO Pictures, lavished money on what he envisaged as a stirring tale of romance and epic battles on Asia’s steppes. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

But we made it like a film; an epic B-film in a way. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z

The drawings were originally bound in a volume, with each illustration opposite the corresponding verse in Dante’s epic poem. Italy’s Uffizi opens Dante anniversary with virtual exhibit 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

And if your USP is that you want to make every woman, whatever her size, able to find the bra she wants, that is an epic number of SKUs. Are women's breasts getting bigger - or is it just our bras? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

The Hobbit, written by JRR Tolkien, is the prequel to the British author's epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings, which Jackson made into three Oscar-winning films about 10 years ago. Peter Jackson's The Hobbit to be extended to three films 2012-07-30T20:45:38Z

For God's sake, this was the author of The Fatal Shore, his epic story of our country's founding. 'Robert Hughes was our Dante,' says his friend Peter Carey 2012-08-07T16:45:25Z

But epic nonetheless, with people flocking to the theater in droves to witness the spectacle of Taymor's giant, flawed vision. Will anyone care about the revamped "Spider-Man" musical? 2011-04-15T16:24:00Z

Frank Herbert’s 1965 classic is epic in scope, yet intimately concerned with the compelling if imaginary ecology of the desert planet Arrakis. Review | Beyond ‘Dune’: Let’s talk about science fiction and fantasy novels about ecology and climate change 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

The source in this case is the Renaissance epic “Jerusalem Delivered” by Torquato Tasso, a 16th-century Italian long idolized throughout Europe, now virtually unknown. Mary Zimmerman?s ?Armida,? With Ren?e Fleming, at Met 2010-04-10T04:13:00Z

I’ve always loved the cinema, especially the great sweeping historical epics. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Fresh Look at Benedict Arnold’s Treason 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

In fact, taken together, the thing they most recall, in structure and tone, is one of the scabrous acoustic epics with which Roy Harper made his name in the early 70s. Laura Marling: Once I Was an Eagle – review 2013-05-23T14:00:00Z

She was an actress of diverse comic and dramatic gifts who could swap comic lines with Carroll O’Connor in “Archie Bunker’s Place” or deliver Molly Bloom’s epic soliloquy. Tough, Ribald Anne Meara Is Recalled at Tribute 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Selected for a live poetry competition, Johanna has an epic fail when she appears on TV. Playing a teen rock critic "scared the crap out" of Beanie Feldstein in "How to Build a Girl" 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

In real life, Osmond’s life took a very different path than the one his epic TV creation seemed to be headed down. Perspective | The brilliant, subversive jerkiness of Eddie Haskell 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

Cameron says the film was "painstakingly" converted to 3-D and promises "an epic experience." 'Titanic' to be re-released in 3-D next year 2011-05-19T17:39:08Z

Drama today can be fact or fiction, intimate or epic, personal or political. British theatre has changed more – and less – than we might think 2012-12-13T15:21:10Z

“You believe the best reporting is done by anyone with a phone and the time it takes to write ‘epic fail,’” Charlie angrily tells Lucas. 'The Newsroom' recap: It's a bittersweet day for Will and Mac 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

The genres I enjoy reading are historical fiction first and foremost, epic sweeping romance novels that cover the globe. Gabrielle Union Likes to Read in the Bathroom 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

We know they will engage in epic arguments. Review | Dave Eggers’s ‘The Parade’ is a heartbreaking work of staggering cynicism 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Bushell is 10 years old, and the clarity of her logic — her favorite word might be “epic” — was blessedly refreshing. Dave Grohl, 10-Year-Old Nandi Bushell and One Very Epic Drum Battle 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

And then there's the life, which is both epic and bizarre, as if he were a creature of myth or fable rather than of a provincial German city. Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exile 2013-01-06T00:06:24Z

In a nocturne evoking the bells of Geneva, he then turned each into an epic tolling. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Now she is at it again, planning a film of views from windows all over the world, a record of the ordinary on an epic scale. Will the digital age kill off art? 2013-07-02T15:36:28Z

On this evidence, the riots of 2011 will take their place among the most epic upheavals in the entire history of London. I depict a riot 2011-08-09T13:28:10Z

Kubrick framed his characters and settings in epic, geometrically precise portraiture. This Memorial Day weekend watch Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, organizing hundreds of people and months of effort in the hope of pulling off an epic stunt which, when photographed, will travel far and make noise. What José Parlá, JR and Kunle Martins Learned from Graffiti 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

She was writing about Stein’s epic novel “The Making of Americans.” Art Review: Messages That Conduct an Electric Charge 2011-03-10T23:09:03Z

Though light on connoisseurship and classical archaeology, the show is an excellent refresher course on myths and epics. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z

It's on the frontier of the Rocky Mountains, it's right where the Missouri river turns epically to the east. 'America beats on you so hard the whole time' 2012-06-16T23:05:27Z

Many of these heroes and their deeds, unlike those in the myths and epics, are unknown to us. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z

This was a Napoleonic-era epic, a "Portuguese War and Peace", set in 1810 as the French troops battled with a British and Portuguese army commanded by General Wellington. Raul Ruiz and the ghosts on the battlefield 2012-08-20T17:37:40Z

Still, not long before he died at age 61 in 1971, he managed one last major coup by serializing an epic novel about a desert planet called Arrakis, Frank Herbert’s “Dune.” Review | Let us praise the giants of science fiction: Campbell, Asimov and, yes, L. Ron Hubbard 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Now Hollywood studio Warner Bros has been tipped to present a big-screen epic about a less likely biblical figure: Pontius Pilate. Warner Bros planning film about Pontius Pilate 2012-08-22T14:39:23Z

Four: epics satisfy our current hunger for event theatre. Michael Billington on marathon-length theatre 2012-07-01T20:30:01Z

Once the reader is past these, however, this epic and often poetic novel delivers powerfully, giving a more rounded and authentic sense of one person's inner life and complexities than many biographies. The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa – review 2012-06-08T21:55:06Z

Couto remembers feeling at the time like he was living an “epic.” How Mia Couto’s Words Help Weave the Story of Mozambique 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

And an equally sprawling crew made the latest eccentric Grand Theft Auto epic. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Surprises and Challenges for Video Games in 2013 2013-12-24T13:01:19Z

But factor in its epic 12-year shoot and Boyhood is clearly far from run-of-the-mill. Linklater's epic journey into Boyhood 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The second season became something more dramatic and less epic. Wagner Moura on Pablo Escobar's Departure From 'Narcos' 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

USA Today asked if it was an "epic fail." A country song, assumptions _ and a racial outcry 2013-04-11T20:44:08Z

Even if evolution is, as Arthur Koestler said, like an “epic recited by a stutterer,” what is the plot? Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z

Martin Scorsese will receive Japan’s highest cultural honor as he works to complete his latest film, the Japan-themed religious epic “Silence.” Martin Scorsese, Cindy Sherman to receive Japan's Praemium Imperiale award 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

But with Mitchell’s latest book, a 600-page epic titled “The Bone Clocks,” the weight is more literal than figurative. How David Mitchell gets fantasy wrong 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

An incredible arranger named Greg Nicolett helped turn my bedroom demo into the lush, epic arrangement that you hear in the video. "'Shia LaBeouf' Live," an oral history of the Internet's most bombastic meme on its anniversary 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Once inside, she re-encountered the set for her delicately epic choral piece “Oratorio for Living Things,” which had two preview performances before the pandemic hit, and is back, running through April 17. Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

To be sure, it’s only natural that a civil rights tour would find its heart in the South, in the epic and well-chronicled battles for equal access to public education, public transportation and voting rights. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

Many would crash and burn; the decade would end with Michael Cimino literally shooting the grass grow for his ruinously expensive epic Heaven's Gate. Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows 2012-06-21T14:30:15Z

The fourth and final theatrical feature in the “rebuild” of his landmark 1995-96 television series, “Neon Genesis Evangelion,” brings the epic adventure to a definitive conclusion. ‘Evangelion’ Director Explains How He Finally Found His Ending 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

The epic 3 1/2 -hour “Passion Play” looks at an annual Easter pageant as staged in three different periods: Elizabethan England, Nazi Germany and 1980s America. ‘Kid Victory,’ new musical from legendary John Kander, to premiere at Signature 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The most immediate and cozy version to hit Seattle, it transmits all the fire and sweep and sap of Hugo’s epic tale of love, rebellion and redemption in France. Balagan Theatre’s small-is-bountiful ‘Les Miserables’ 2013-09-12T01:01:08Z

But I think you're along for the ride, you know, in the way that was so epic and it only really worked with Shakespeare and Greek tragedies. Julia Stiles gets Shakespearean again: On murder, betrayal and the powerful women of "Riviera" 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Dieter has made his life’s work the study of the pop-music genre that gives the show its title, having acquired a “Ph.D. in literature with the focus on the power ballad as epic verse.” | 'Power Balladz': Head-Banging Anthems at Midtown Theater 2010-08-20T02:01:00Z

There is no turning back as this epic tale unspools to its mournful conclusion, the dance drama punctuated with memorable characterizations. Swoons and swordplay in Ratmansky's 'Romeo and Juliet' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

“Seveneves” will please fans of hard science fiction, but this witty, epic tale is also sure to win over readers new to Stephenson’s work. The best sci-fi and fantasy books for May 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Simpson murder trial, showed the fallen former football star coming to terms with his epic fall by scanning magazine cover images that show him devolving from gridiron hero to inmate. Istvan Banyai, Illustrator Who Mined the Surreal, Dies at 73 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z

Originally, 1924's "The Thief of Bagdad" was Douglas Fairbanks' passion project — one of the most lavish and fantastical epic films of the silent era. Today's SIFF highlight: May 26, 2011 2011-05-25T21:32:38Z

Circe’s emotional growth is as epic as any Greek ballad and reveals the natural strength of women — goddesses or mortals. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 2: Close encounters of the tentacled kind 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Weekend warriors tackle it in chunks, and a hardy few attempt the entire length as an epic two-month trek. Explorer: Along the Trail of Korea’s Mountain Spirits 2012-11-30T18:43:12Z

I felt like I’d been blown through a jet engine, then used to mop the floor of a frat house the morning after an epic party. Slippers at work? Nonstop alcohol? Tales of an American executive in Korea 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Obama describes the dizzying sci-fi epic, a collaboration between Kubrick and renowned author and thinker Arthur C Clarke, as a film that “captures the grandeur and scale of the unknown”. Barack to the future: what can we learn from Obama's sci-fi movie list? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Not since the invention of penicillin, or maybe even Play-Doh, has an accidental discovery been as epic as the revelation that the Academy Awards show doesn’t need a host. No Thanks. Really, Oscar Winners, Skip That Part. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

To complete his epic tale, Cummings told NY Daily News, “It took me four hours and four bottles of wine.” “Leathery yet frigid flesh of a privileged and hypocritical billionaire”: The Amazon reviews for Donald Trump gay erotica satire are amazing 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

People were fired, class sizes swelled to epic proportions and — after the budget was reconciled – CPS miraculously found a surplus. Charter schools and disaster capitalism 2013-02-24T13:00:00Z

A mix-up in scheduling led to a joint fitting for the actresses, and they continually exchanged items of clothing, like an “epic four-hour shopping trip the two characters might have taken together,” Peterson said. Dressing ‘The Irishman’: Polyester Pantsuits and Capo Collars 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

In Bird Box, Bier portrays raw human emotion in an epic, apocalyptic story about a mysterious force or virus that is driving people to suicide. Hollywood must drop fixation wih beauty, says Night Manager director 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Steven Spielberg, the director of big-budget epics, is with Mrs. Clinton. Hollywood Celebrities Choose Sides in Presidential Race 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

Figuring that audiences were younger and with lower attention spans than ever before, Hollywood directors began to turn out movies that were a cocktail of musclebound protagonists, car chases, fight scenes and epic explosions. The Expendables: Old-timers wheel out the one-liners 2010-08-16T15:36:00Z

It’s an epic about the passing of time, flavored intensely by the passing of time — 20 years — involved in its own creation. The Best Comics of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

It is, without doubt, art history’s most epic breakup. How Marina Abramovic's memoir does and doesn't illuminate the artist's work 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

The Pacific 9pm, Sky Movies Premiere As epic as TV gets, this intense new series tells the story of US marines fighting the Japanese in the second world war from Guadacanal to Okinawa. MasterChef | Channel 4's Comedy Gala | The Pacific | The Orphans Who Survived the Holocaust | Watch this 2010-04-05T05:45:00Z

An epic tale, well told by the understated and erudite Bartlett. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-08-04T07:00:00Z

For sheer ambition, it would be hard to top this epic industrial American tavern, its row after row of community tables ending in flashy tanks and tubes. 10 top places to eat in Cleveland, for convention-goers and the rest of us 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Rowling tweeted Thursday the “epic nature” of the story led the masterminds behind the play to split it into two parts. New Harry Potter Play to Be Told in Two Parts 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

What do you feel about the idea of being epic, and why do you think some artists strive to "be epic"? Q&A: THEESatisfaction interviews Shabazz Palaces 2011-02-10T16:56:05Z

But the medieval epic is one of the few razzle-dazzle Hollywood events at this year's event, which is relying heavily on art house titles for its 63rd edition. Hobbled "Robin Hood" director skipping Cannes 2010-05-10T20:21:00Z

It was like being promised a scene of epic daring and instead getting an outtake from someone's holiday video. Rewind TV: How TV Ruined Your Life; Scenes from a Teenage Killing; Posh and Posher; The Killing 2011-01-30T00:06:19Z

Of the 18 films competing for the Palme, presumed favorites include the languorous Turkish film “Winter Sleep,” the small-town Russian epic “Leviathan” and the French working-class drama “Two Days, One Night.” Predicting the Palme d’Or a guessing game 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

But he lived a life of epic suffering, much of it self-inflicted, and the political dimension of his story speaks to the pain that we are living through now. The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

“The scope of people from different worlds coming to see it is epic.” Jonathan Groff’s Life Imitates His Art 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Organized by the National Geographic Society, the show is an epic project led by Joel Sartore in his quest to photograph every species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries around the world. Annenberg Space for Photography names new director and readies for 10th anniversary 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

It is a one-man epic production about the history of country music. David Morse Steadies Himself With Daily Devotions and His Own Cooking 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

“Whenever you have the epic conflict of good and evil,” he said, “it becomes the most predictable story line ever, because we all know who’s going to win.” Television: A Heroic Fantasy for Skeptics 2011-04-10T01:30:02Z

The other nominees for best drama were “Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic, and the romance “Call Me by Your Name.” ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Big Little Lies’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

The snowy sets are teeming with extras, the precise period details offer a tactile texture and the large set pieces gives the story an epic quality. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

In 1985, Brook adapted the Indian epic poem the Mahabharata into a stage play which lasted nine hours. V&A acquires Peter Brook archive 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Tolkien's book and tell the story that leads up to his epic fantasy "The Lord of the Rings", which Jackson made into three Oscar-winning films about 10 years ago. New Zealand becomes Middle Earth as Hobbit mania takes hold 2012-11-26T23:45:27Z

The Bridge by Hart Crane Crane's epic poem is inspired by and even addressed to Brooklyn Bridge, which becomes what mountains were to Wordsworth. John Mullan's 10 of the best: bridges 2012-07-13T21:55:04Z

In introducing the last song, Michaels said, “bring our show to a close, but not the epic and notorious story of RBG.” Ginsburg makes 1st public appearance since cancer surgery 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

A rambling work that tries to stretch an anecdote into an epic, “Amadeus” too often opts to interpret itself through the gaseous musings of Salieri. But does it deserve an encore? 'Amadeus' returns to South Coast Rep 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Last week at MoMA PS1, an epic sprawl of artists’ books were on display at New York Art Book Fair, which was started by the nonprofit organization Printed Matter. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

But she might just as well be Coldplay's highly strung kid sister; tracks such as Catalyst plot a steady but deeply satisfying course towards stadium-sized climaxes - epic bluster replaced with genuine bite. Kyla La Grange: Ashes – review 2012-07-28T23:05:42Z

In the months that followed, Kitaj's grief and anger took on an epic quality. RB Kitaj: an obsession with revenge 2013-02-10T06:00:01Z

Each year in late summer and early fall, monarchs born in the northern U.S. and Canada begin an epic journey of about 2,500 miles to mountaintops in Mexico — a place they’ve never been. Monarch butterflies in Mexico allow brush with fragile beauty 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

But don’t forget to play, whether on day hikes or epic backpacking tours, perhaps peak bagging, fishing, boating or horseback riding. 11 Great Alternatives to the Top National Parks 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

For many viewers the most memorable aspects of the epic are the natural-seeming horses, which exude extraordinary theatrical charisma. At the Paramount, enter ‘War Horse’: a boy, a horse, a hit play 2013-02-07T22:14:09Z

It was a "stretching exercise" in which she had to "grow at speed". is epic too, though confined to the 20th century. Hayley Atwell 2010-10-09T23:05:00Z

And imagine this mundane/surreal epic spanning the first decade of the 21st century. In 'El pasado,' the stage spins, and so do the characters' lives 2012-02-11T20:42:03Z

Audiences have been kinder than critics, giving the film a B+ CinemaScore, but Galloway said box office returns so far were not enough given the film's epic price tag. Warner Bros v Disney: the fight for Oz's yellow brick road 2013-03-15T19:08:33Z

The ancient epic also holds the record for an opening weekend in March with $71 million. "Alice in Wonderland" opens strongly at box office 2010-03-06T19:09:00Z

How much mirth Jones can wring from Wagner’s epic remains to be seen, and it will be some time before the full picture is clear. The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

This prequel to “The Pillars of the Earth” imagines the founding of Kingsbridge, and it’s just as transporting — and lengthy — as Follett’s earlier epic. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Lately I’ve spent a lot of time curled up with David Thompson’s epic Thai Street Food, which is heavy enough to put a dent in your lap, but it’s worth it. Shelf Talk | Nightstand Reads: Matthew Amster-Burton 2011-11-01T20:15:08Z

The piece is a dialogue between young refugees and their ancestors, who share the story of the Darangen, an epic song — 72,000 lines long — that recounts Maranao history and myths. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Through the film’s epic span and fleetingly impressive moments of time-travel, it is almost possible to fall in love with him the way everybody else once did. Review | ‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ is a beautiful way to rediscover the man who became King 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Not to mention pure exhaustion from, say, hopping in place for epic lengths of time, as Pol Rosenthal valiantly did Saturday. Frye exhibits 'Implied Violence,' 'S?ance' may freak you out 2010-10-14T23:51:00Z

It was a New York railway station in the World War II epic “Pearl Harbor” and the modern Justin Timberlake rom-com “Friends with Benefits”; the exterior of a 1950s movie studio in “Hail, Caesar!” LA’s Union Station books another starring role: The Oscars 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

A while ago, after a particularly epic Ramble, I decided that if one man and his friends could reliably make so many people find joy, I wanted as much of it as I could. Rambling On: Levon Helm, The Band?s Drummer, Dies at Age 71 2012-04-20T04:32:32Z

For me, it was the underrated Babylon 5 that got it right – never losing sight of the larger, epic tale that provided a constantly moving background for more contained adventures. Outcasts: season one, episode two 2011-02-08T22:00:03Z

It's over five hours long in all, but there's barely a slack moment in this exhilarating Indian epic as it races through generations of smalltown criminal, industrial and political enmity. This week's new films 2013-03-02T06:00:09Z

But the drama seemed always heroic, even epic. Dance Review: Into the Pool, Slowly but With Feeling 2011-07-31T22:14:39Z

Like “42,” “Cesar Chavez” lacks the budget to feel truly epic in scope. ‘Cesar Chavez’: a noble portrait of the civil-rights leader 2014-03-26T18:56:20Z

Resisting epic toast does not mean resisting the idea that words can have new meanings. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

In the coming months, it will air an adaptation of the controversial epic “His Dark Materials.” ‘Game of Thrones’ Changed TV. Let Us Count the Ways. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

As with the meaningful conversations between Galadriel and Theo this week, it’s nice to see characters on this kind of heavy, epic series just enjoying each other’s company. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 7: Out of the Ashes 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

But Schwentke seems to think that the way to bring epic heft to this 3-D franchise is to wallpaper the whole movie with intimate images of his young star. REVIEW: There's Nothing Urgent About "Insurgent" 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

It went on to become the biggest grossing movie of all time with global ticket sales of more than $1.8 billion, although it was recently overtaken by Cameron's 3-D epic "Avatar." Winslet and director Mendes split 2010-03-15T19:29:00Z

It's an epic that takes you all around the world, but the centre of the world is Paris, or Céline's delirious, slightly hallucinatory, incredibly poetic vision of it. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z

Aviation pictures were so popular that 1927's World War I epic "Wings," which features jaw-dropping aerial dogfights, won the first best picture Oscar. 'Hollywood Takes to the Air' explores aviation's long history in film 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

But like a lot of Lionsgate films lately, including “The Last Witch Hunter” and “Dirty Grandpa,” the fantasy epic received breathtakingly bad reviews. ‘Gods of Egypt’ and ‘Eddie the Eagle’ Struggle at Box Office 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Shelton defaulted to hyperbole: “You gave one of the most passionate epic vocal performances I have ever heard on this stage,” he told his sole remaining contestant.  'The Voice' recap: The Top 5 top themselves -- twice 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

“And Aaron Copland is the most colorful composer you can think of. It can be many things — rowdy, epic, sensitive, serene.” Justin Peck’s New Americana, Set to Copland’s Old 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The system allows for a vast number of possible configurations and will be used to create each scene of Wagner’s epic tale “in a chameleonlike fashion,” Mr. Gelb said. For New ?Ring,? Met Reinforces Its Stage With Steel 2010-06-07T18:50:00Z

Ridley usually took the loftier road of period epics like The Duellists, Kingdom of Heaven and of course Gladiator, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2001. REVIEW: Don't Let Your People Go See Exodus: Gods and Kings 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

When Stephen Colbert spoke at the dinner in 2006, the event was epic as well. Trump can’t ban Muslim comics: Hasan Minhaj understands the 1st Amendment better than Trump 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

The HBO fantasy epic captured 10 Creative Arts Emmy Awards over the weekend, the most of any series in the kick off to this year’s Primetime Emmys. ‘Game of Thrones’ Dominates at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Best of the remaining bunch are California indie-pop band Best Coast, epic instrumental specialists Explosions in the Sky, and Brits Arctic Monkeys, a huge hit at the festival in 2009.Verdict: Lollapalooza day-by-day: Which day is the best if you can only do 1? 2011-06-07T13:03:44Z

“I remember how epic the performance was,” he said. Prince Is Mourned by Fashion World, Which Counted Him as One of Its Own 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

In the epic expedition, York had gone on scouting missions, had hunted buffalo and deer to feed the group and helped tend to the sick, according to historian Stephen Ambrose’s book “Undaunted Courage.” Sculpture of enslaved explorer mysteriously appears in Oregon park 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Despite the epic scope, the dense plot feels crammed in, and it ends up leaving little impression in the crowded Victoriana-drama marketplace. This week's new films 2012-12-01T00:05:52Z

All are torch bearers of a long, honorable, imperiled tradition, like the blockers of hats, writers of epic poetry and speakers of Latin. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z

It’s no surprise that this epic trilogy opener has already been optioned for film. New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Akiho has an uncanny gift for intricate rhythmic counterpoint, though the mathematical precision of the final product emerged through epic stretches of stream-of-consciousness play. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Cameron's property move has hardened expectations that he will make large parts of two sequels to his 3-D science fiction epic Avatar in New Zealand. Avatar's Cameron buys up land in NZ hobbit country 2012-02-02T00:45:24Z

His one mode is epic, grim, relentless tragedy. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Ironically, it makes the epic good-versus-evil "Battle" less gripping than the dragon's tale. 'Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' too often overwhelms 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

This is a novel on an epic scale: its plenitude and anguish are life-enhancing, and the huge talents of Thomas Keneally are everywhere on display. The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally – review 2012-11-09T22:50:01Z

But "Pyramids" is cool because it works as an epic piece by radio standards, not just because it is one. Summer of Frank Ocean: 'Pyramids' 2012-09-06T16:46:06Z

The most anticipated event is probably “Live and Times: Episode 1-4,” an 11-hour epic from Nature Theater of Oklahoma that tracks a person’s life from earliest memory. The Week Ahead: Jan. 6 — 12 2013-01-06T08:10:04Z

She listens patiently to his long-winded yarns about epic poetry and an idyllic childhood in the Montenegrin hills. In ‘My War Criminal,’ the Bad Guy Controls the Conversation 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

“Rienzi” also poses epic challenges, including a big chorus, marches and processions. Music Review: Wagner?s ?Rienzi? From Opera Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-01T00:07:03Z

The do was as epic in person: a brown bushy bird’s nest sprayed up on all sides to achieve absurd height. Suspicious Minds 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

Surrounding this segment is an unfolding urban epic: the already begun but still mostly incipient development of the West Side rail yards. High Line Rhapsody 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

But this period epic, set in 16th-century Korea, is positively lavish. Need to Escape? Stream These 12 Great Foreign-Language TV Shows 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

“I’ve tended not to think epically, or take on big external themes like politics,” Mr. Pierce said. Kander & Pierce, a New Team in the Musical Theater 2012-05-23T21:58:57Z

Marlantes, best known for the immersive Vietnam War novel “Matterhorn,” here offers a historical family epic about Finnish brothers working as loggers in the Pacific Northwest and their labor organizer sister. New & Noteworthy, From R. Kelly to White House Corruption 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

An epic story of two families and two houses spanning the entire 20th century, it promises to enhance its author's claim to the title of best British novelist working at the moment. Books in 2011 ? from the new Alan Hollinghurst to David Foster Wallace's unfinished The Pale King 2011-01-02T00:05:20Z

Former US president Bill Clinton upstaged Hollywood's elite with a surprise appearance to introduce Spielberg's Civil War epic Lincoln, which was up for best drama. Golden Globes 2013: Les Miserables wins three awards 2013-01-14T04:48:46Z

“It basically jokingly means ‘adopt me/be my second mom/i think of you as a mother figure you are so epic.’” On the Internet, to Be ‘Mom’ Is to Be Queen 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

Washington needs the right director to guide his titanic energy through this epic climb and also to ensure that the production is a theatrical, and not just a box-office juggernaut. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z