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.
Read moreMary 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.
Read more“How to Succeed,” released 55 years ago, set a template for a comic sub-genre that Mike Judge revisited decades later.
Read moreWith Valentine’s Day approaching, we look at a very particular subset of the romantic comedy: the stories of robots and the women they love.
Read moreYears before they donned superhero suits, Christian Bale and Tom Holland were child actors anchoring very different stories of survival.
Read moreTwo men sit on an idyllic suburban lawn, creating a mirror image of one another that suggests an inherent balance in […]
Read moreOn 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.
Read moreOn their twentieth anniversaries, a look back at the considerable impact of two giant movie franchises, for good and ill. (Mostly ill.)
Read moreThe new Jane Campion film’s deconstruction of masculinity in the western is quite effective – but it’s not as revolutionary as you might think.
Read moreAudiences have widely dismissed “The Last Duel” as yet another bone-crunching period epic. Look closer.
Read moreWhen “Romeo + Juliet” hit screens 25 years ago (and ‘Titanic’ followed the following year), Leonardo DiCaprio was cemented as a hyper-specific, of-his-moment young male star.
Read moreThe 1931 version of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” remains an astonishing achievement, melding state-of-the-art effects with a stunning lead performance.
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