Reese Witherspoon portrays Tracy Flick as something teenage girls in film are so rarely allowed to be: unrepentantly ruthless in their ambition.
Read moreStaring down declining ratings and a sense of lost relevancy, the Oscar ceremony has contorted itself into pretzels trying to reclaim its former glory. But there’s a simple solution.
Read moreThere’s only one reason to talk about “Eurotrip” two decades on: the pitch-perfect adultery anthem at its center.
Read moreNestled within the dramatic conducting sequences and prosthetic noses of “Maestro” is a quiet moment of grief so understated that it almost feels like it was an accident that it was included in the first place.
Read moreIn boarding school dramas like ‘Dead Poets Society,’ ‘Tea and Sympathy,’ ‘The Emperor’s Club,’ and the new ‘The Holdovers,’ filmmakers deftly explore the complications of upper-class abandonment.
Read moreA look at how the venerable slasher trope changed for the times, via one film each from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.
Read moreCritics complained that Cliff Robertson’s Best Actor win for ‘Charly’ (released 55 years ago this month) was “based more on promotion than on performance.” Sound familiar?
Read moreCharles Laughton was not the first film actor to play a real-life character on screen – far from it. But his performance influenced the trajectory of the biopic genre, demonstrating the full potential of actors to redefine historical figures in the public imagination.
Read moreThe new take on “The Haunted Mansion” is the Mouse House’s most recent stab at their ongoing effort to adapt movies from an unlikely source.
Read moreWhen Steven Spielberg made ‘Saving Private Ryan’ 25 years ago, the casting of Tom Hanks in a WWII epic was an unconventional one. In retrospect, it was not only inspired but necessary.
Read moreOn its 85th anniversary, a close reading of the Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn romance, and what its famously fluid stars and director were trying to tell us.
Read moreA look at the groundbreaking performer, who became a sensation on stage and screen in the early 20th century.
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