There’s only one reason to talk about “Eurotrip” two decades on: the pitch-perfect adultery anthem at its center.
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Nestled 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.
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In 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.
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A look at how the venerable slasher trope changed for the times, via one film each from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.
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Critics 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?
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Charles 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.
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The 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.
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When 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.
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On 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.
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A look at the groundbreaking performer, who became a sensation on stage and screen in the early 20th century.
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A valentine to the one and only Bette Davis, born on this very day 115 years ago.
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When it hit theaters on this day 25 years ago, “The Wedding Singer” seemed like another goofy Adam Sandler comedy. But it proved a hinge point in his long, often unpredictable career.
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