18 international movies have been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, including Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent, but ...

A brief history of the Route 66 theme park ...

In hard times, we need to have the courage to say: two and two equals four.” So insists Raoul Peck, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker, summing up the rationale behind his revelatory new documentary ...

In Young Sherlock, Sherlock and Moriarty are not yet enemies, but are friends, a bond that actor Dónal Finn — who plays Moriarty — says was inspired by the duo in the 1969 Western film Butch Cassidy ...

In the 26 film reviews written by Orwell during World War II, the novelist’s analysis was more politically than cinematically minded. From our Autumn 1979 issue.

Film critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks of Movies for Maniacs breaks down his favorite films of last year, in his preferred double-feature format. 1. (tie) Peter Vack’s  (US, 2024)  This self-distributed, ...

Find out which baby names were the most popular from 1980 to 1989, and how they compare to today. According to the Social ...

Western movies have often been criticised for not being historically accurate. Many of the raft of Hollywood movies about the Wild West often encapsulate the spirit of the American frontier, but many ...

George Arliss was the first British actor to win an Oscar. A play actor originally, Arliss first starred in the 1911 Louis Napoleon Parker play "Disraeli," which was later turned first into a silent ...

On March 21, 1960, police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire on a crowd protesting the country’s “pass laws,” killing ...

This episode unpacks the domestic political struggles leading up to the signing of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941. Lynne Olson, acclaimed historian and author of Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, ...