How common are invisible friends? Most young children play pretend games and interact with their stuffed animals, dolls, or other special toys as if they were alive. According to Marjorie Taylor and ...

There has been a recent spate of movies about imaginary friends. In the winter, I watched Imaginary, a horror flick about a sinister imaginary friend. By spring, IF had introduced us to a group of ...

Now that we've ticked ghosts, vampires, aliens, mermaids, spellcasters, werewolves, fairies, Bonehilda the Skeleton Maid, and PlantSims off the collective wishlist for The Sims 4, there aren't too ...

A decade ago, legendary director Hayao Miyazaki retired, sending Studio Ghibli’s team of animators to seek employment elsewhere. Those were dark, uncertain times for the industry, which explains why ...

Imaginary friends are having a moment. This year has already seen Blumhouse’s Imaginary, a not-so-great movie about a murderous imaginary friend, and IF, an even-less-great movie about a whole world ...

You can’t help but smile when your 3-year-old tells you her pretend friend’s name is HaHa. “No kidding!” her mother laughs. Because they have no brothers or sisters to play with, people often assume ...