Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dani Di Placido covers film, television, and internet culture. The story of The Boy and the Heron is simple, but challenging; it’s ...

It's a simple schoolyard insult. For eons, people — often men — hurled "mama's boy" at each other as an emasculating put-down. To be called the son of a mother suggested an essential unmanliness.

It's one thing to produce a widely acclaimed animated movie, and it's another thing to produce a widely acclaimed animated movie that rivals the very best of the iconic Hayao Miyazaki. Well, that's ...

A cross between "The 400 Blows" and "Slumdog Millionaire" (though not quite in their class), "Boy" follows a group of kids during a sleepy summer in a Maori community on the rural East Coast of New ...

First, there was "girl math": The humorous trend saw women justifying indulgent purchases by breaking the payment into fractions or saying an outfit was worth it because they'd wear it multiple times.