Category: Happy Birthday

That a picture this great isn’t seen as one of John Ford’s go-to “classics” is simply a commentary on the high quality of his entire filmography.

Released 95 years ago, this Oscar-winning pre-Code drama stars Norma Shearer as a strikingly bold and independent career woman who leaves her husband behind.

“Marty” may have been released 70 years ago today, but its ideas about masculinity and solitude are refreshingly timely.

Thirty years ago, Chris Farley left ‘Saturday Night Live’ and starred in ‘Tommy Boy,’ a comedy classic that shows both great silliness and skill as an actor.

Jack Black had done smaller work as well as co-headlined Tenacious D beforehand, but his scene-stealing supporting role in the Stephen Frears comedy made him a star.

This emotionally resonant tale of a hitman and his target connecting, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, is ripe for rediscovery.

Years before Patrick Bateman cornered the market on homicide in the American boardroom, Michael Caine crossed the pond to show him how it’s done in this giddy black comedy.

On the 40th anniversary of its release, a look back at Rob Reiner’s sophomore feature — one too often overlooked among his jaw-dropping string of ‘80s all-timers.