Sorry, nerds: Russia has banned certain Japanese cartoons due to concerns of violence.

In which we review Him & Her, Daria Geller’s marvelous, heartbreaking, new short film, inspired by Chekhov’s “Он и Она” (properly, “He and She”). A perfect film to enjoy for Valentine's Day.

In memory of actor Christopher Plummer, who died last week at age 91, we look back at his role as a dying Leo Tolstoy in the 2009 film, The Last Station.

In this week's Odder News, museums reopen with some strange offerings, the organizing game Tetris is coming to the big screen, and we are thrilled that Russians love the Home Alone franchise as much as we do.

Mikhail Romm is remembered by everyone who ever worked with him with tenderness and affection. Yet it is hard not to wonder how differently his life and work might have turned out had it not been for the exigencies of Russian and Soviet history.

News items on an Oscar contender, a respected doctor, renovation of Tula, and a Kremlin dig.

Roscosmos is partnering with foreign space agencies and film studios to create the world’s biggest VR-series on board the ISS.

Russians responded to a poll about the most popular movies of 2020, but were generally unable to determine the best ones of this year.

Russia has everything, including Shrek's house.

It is just over six minutes long, but "In Russia" is the finest film on Russia we have seen all year. It will have you itching for travel again.

On the 110th anniversary of Lev Tolstoy's death, we look back at his link to cinema: Tolstoy is more closely linked to the history of the cinema than any other writer of his time.

News from around Russia, on everything from bicycles to Bunin, from mystery graves to trolleybuses.