When Leslie Howard’s plane was shot down in June of 1943, it launched questions and conspiracy theories that persist to this day.
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You can all but set your watch to it, every time a new and potentially challenging film is released: the careful, […]
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In 1938, the gifted actress was struggling after a string of flops. She would have to redefine her screen persona to save her career – and she did just that.
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This Mother’s Day season, two new films are thoughtfully examining the parental relationship via cinematic magic.
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When Howard Hawks’ iconic gangster movie hit screens 90 years ago, it had to do a bit of a two-step with the enforcers of the Production Code.
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Mary Pickford was born 130 years ago this week. She was a groundbreaking silent movie star, but she also created a template for industry power that is still followed today.
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“How to Succeed,” released 55 years ago, set a template for a comic sub-genre that Mike Judge revisited decades later.
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With Valentine’s Day approaching, we look at a very particular subset of the romantic comedy: the stories of robots and the women they love.
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Years before they donned superhero suits, Christian Bale and Tom Holland were child actors anchoring very different stories of survival.
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Two men sit on an idyllic suburban lawn, creating a mirror image of one another that suggests an inherent balance in […]
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On its 25th anniversary, a look back at how the self-awareness of its particular time and place influenced ‘Scream’ – and impacted its audience and imitators.
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On their twentieth anniversaries, a look back at the considerable impact of two giant movie franchises, for good and ill. (Mostly ill.)
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