Category: Happy Birthday

What happens when Hollywood’s alpha male of action cinema slips a little existentialism into his escapism? The results are somewhat confusing but strangely compelling.

Frank Marshall’s “thrill-omedy” deftly combines Hitchcockian suspense with campy 1950s creature feature fun, but there’s more to this film than basic B-movie entertainment.

In 1945, Gene Kelly was about to near the beginning of his illustrious career. Jerry Mouse was already at the top. We explore how the two came to dance together.

In a setting away from their childhood homes, two young men realize they have taken different paths. One has entered into […]

Bill Murray’s only directorial effort captures his curmudgeonly spirit in its chronicle of three bank robbers on a farcical New York City odyssey.

Three boys escape their humdrum suburban lives by going to space in Joe Dante’s sci-fi fantasy, which launched into theaters 40 years ago.

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of its French release, we look back at the documentary that’s come to represent Agnès Varda’s uniquely generous approach to filmmaking.

A quarter century ago, Roland Emmerich’s Revolutionary War blockbuster gave the actor his juiciest film role yet — and he’s been presumed villainous ever since.

Thought it may be overshadowed by other Eastwood Westerns, this is still an effective and bold revisionist oater.

A century after its debut, a milestone of silent comedy has been restored to its long-lost original glory.

Disney’s first widescreen animated feature used the nascent CinemaScope technique in depicting a low-key romance in turn-of-the-century America.