In recent years, Netflix has established itself as an unlikely patron of cinema. But it acts as a monkey’s paw for filmmakers: granting their wildest wishes, but exacting a steep price. Financially, ...

In W.W. Jacob’s 1902 horror story The Monkey’s Paw, a man’s friend gives him a mummified monkey’s paw that will grant three wishes with terrible consequences. The man wishes for £200, and the next day ...

American politics is so intensely stupid and nasty that it sometimes seems as if somebody made a series of wishes with a monkey’s paw. The dark moral of “The Monkey’s Paw,” a 1902 short story by the ...

A modern-day Londoner, Aladdin, inherits an ancient monkey's paw believed to grant wishes, only to discover that every desire comes at a soul-crushing price. As those around him fall victim to its ...

Diablo 4's brand-new endgame content, billed as a challenge that almost no-one would be able to complete, is living up to the hype - but not in a way that players actually appear to be enjoying. Back ...

How Did Monkey Man Swing From Netflix to Universal?A timeline of the Dev Patel passion project’s many delays and production troubles, and the rumors about why Netflix dropped it.

If you're anything like horror queen Jamie Lee Curtis, nothing quite gets your hair standing on end like the Disney classic Aladdin and, in particular, the evil Jafar. After the Oscar winner announced ...