Category: Looking Back

It’s a common enough sight in Christmas films: holiday shoppers admiring animatronic window displays and taking advantage of the sales at […]

Washington Irving’s 1820 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a classic of Gothic horror, an atmospheric and ambiguous tale […]

“Another movie from an old TV show,” sighs a character at the beginning of 2000’s Charlie’s Angels when confronted with the […]

1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in […]

In 1989, the popularity of the Nightmare On Elm Street series and its flagship character, Freddy Krueger, were still going strong. […]

We knew on Jan. 1, 2000, that the hysteria surrounding Y2K had been overblown. But before that, the fears that the […]

Ever since the proliferation of the mobile phone, horror filmmakers have to go out of their way to explain why their […]

The fictional metropolis of Gotham has long been a stand-in for New York City, and with Joker, director Todd Phillips borrows […]

Quiz Show opens with a sale. Its first scene follows investigator Dick Goodwin (Rob Morrow) as he speaks with a car […]

Perhaps the most notable example of a prominent movie genre that disappeared almost entirely is the Western. Once inescapable — there […]

“It’s 1927. We’re modern folk!” Lady Edith’s husband Bertie (Harry Hadden-Paton) declares in Downton Abbey when he and his wife (Laura […]

Long before he corralled some of the screen’s most skilled improvisers to make such classic mockumentaries as Waiting for Guffman, Best […]