Category: Happy Birthday

It’s one of the most striking openings in cinema history: A burly, shirtless man in a black hood stokes a brazier, […]

Few films aimed at children have made the case for the value of every life as clearly as Babe did in […]

Though box office bombs come and go, some live on in infamy. Kevin Reynolds’ post-apocalyptic action flick Waterworld holds the usual […]

In the forty years since the release of Brian De Palma’s ​Dressed to Kill​, the conversation has shifted from the controversy […]

It is strange to consider how often teen movies are about young women, and how frequently those stories are told by […]

The 1980s, packed full of kid-driven adventure films, has just as many beautiful disasters as it does universally beloved hits. But […]

Genre filmmaking is a precise art, and yes, that includes the much-maligned romantic comedy. A number of intangibles all have to […]

It is slightly cynical (but not necessarily inaccurate) to describe Disney’s business strategy for the last decade or so as built, […]

Scary stories are inherently political. How couldn’t they be? They tap into our greatest fears, and whatever those happen to be […]

It’s hard to believe now, but there was a time when comic book characters had little to no hope of success […]

In 1998, Stanley Kubrick accepted the D.W. Griffith Award from the Director’s Guild of America. In his acceptance speech, he compared […]