Once a centerpiece of daytime TV, soaps have mostly disappeared. “Beyond the Gates” will try to revive the genre, and will be ...

Guy Pearce recently spoke to The Times as part of his Oscar campaign for “The Brutalist” and remembered getting piled on by ...

Guy Pearce doesn’t stomach snobbery. The “Brutalist” star, 57, revealed that a former co-star’s haughty reaction toward his ...

This makes the content look much smoother, which often gets compared to "soap operas". But plenty of people think that the fake frames ruin the cinematic feel of a movie, and give it an odd look.

In other cases, TVs can ship with aggressive motion smoothing, which can make even high-end movies and TV shows look like soap operas. Hence the name: the Soap Opera Effect (SOE). Introduced as a ...