Thanks to George Orwell, the year 1984 immediately conjures up unpleasant associations. But hindsight is, ahem, 2020, and those of us old enough to remember the year can tell you it was actually ...

Andy Serkis’ disastrous “Animal Farm” draws attention to the Orwellian movies we actually need. Orwell’s ideological impact maintains even now, precisely because he designed his masterful last work of ...

Those words — anodyne, generic — are comedy anti-matter. But they perfectly capture how weird it is that Ghostbusters has become a subject of controversy. If you were at all cognizant of pop culture ...

In a peak moment of pop monoculture, synthesizers pumped up songs and MTV forever changed how artists were seen. Here’s how — and why. Credit... Supported by By Jon Pareles Forty years ago, the ...

This story was written by CNET's Caroline McCarthy. The fact that the Los Angeles Raiders humiliated the Washington Redskins in a 38-to-9 victory is a mere afterthought. Super Bowl XVII's lasting ...

January 17, 1984: A week before its famous airing during Super Bowl XVIII, Apple’s iconic “1984” commercial debuts as a trailer in movie theaters. To hype its revolutionary new Macintosh computer, ...