This week in culture brought some frights, most of which were intentional. If your ideal movie has a jump scare (or five), you’ll love the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures' new exhibit. The big bad Zuck returns to theaters this week, and we revisit the great Oscar’s Best Picture blunder of 2017 as Moonlight turns 10.
And Taylor Swift’s extended album drop did not live up to her reputation. If you need a change of genre, Maria Bamford’s dark humor documentary is out on Netflix later this month. There's nothing quite like a scary movie, and this October, the place to immerse yourself in the best of them is the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
The museum recently opened its new exhibit, “The Horror Show,” which celebrates cinema's best scares through July 25, 2027. And throughout October, the museum is hosting themed programming, including a late-night goth event on Halloween night. "We are excited to celebrate the daring creativity of horror cinema with devoted fans and curious newcomers alike, inviting audiences to confront what frightens us, and discover why we keep coming back for more." Since the exhibit runs into next year, every month can be Halloween at the Academy Museum.
And true horror fans don't need it to be October to get into the spooky spirit anyway. Mark Zuckerberg is coming to a big screen near you. (Sort of.) Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning (October 9), his spiritual sequel to The Social Network, dramatizes the real-life showdown between whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) and Facebook's Zuck (Jeremy Strong). The catch with tech movies like this one and the upcoming Artificial, about OpenAI's Sam Altman, is that the tech moves faster than Hollywood can greenlight a script.
By the time the credits roll, the scandal already feels vintage. It's hard to clutch your pearls over Facebook's old sins when there's a fresh headline every week about AI ending us all. A24 recently re-released the Oscar-winning film Moonlight to mark its 10th anniversary.
The groundbreaking film, which earned Mahershala Ali an Oscar, the first Muslim actor to win one, is memorable for more than its artistry. The groundbreaking film is noteworthy in its own right, but the milestone also reminds pop culture junkies of the night the wrong Best Picture winner was announced at the Academy Awards. La La Land was named the winner, only for one of its own producers, mid-acceptance speech, to realize the mistake and announce that Moonlight had actually won.
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