Science fiction was everywhere by the time Alien hit theaters in 1979. Two years earlier, Star Wars (also released by 20th Century Fox) had taken over the movie industry. Everybody was trying...
There is something essential about Bill Murray. You can make a movie a hundred times with a hundred different actors, but when you cast Bill Murray you will get something utterly unique....
Set aside how pretty much every moment of the classic Michael Curtiz film is iconic, how memorable the performances are, and how so much of it has been absorbed into the fabric...
The history of armor— in warfare and culture— is the focus of a fall exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA). “The Age of Armor: Treasures from the Higgins Armory Collection...
Robert Downey, Jr. is the cornerstone on which the whole of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is built. If Downey’s performance as Tony Stark doesn’t work, Iron Man doesn’t work. If Iron Man...
“My name is H.I. McDunnough. Call me ‘Hi.’” The Coen Brothers remain two of the most enigmatic and unpredictable filmmakers even now, nearly four decades into their careers. You never know what...
Tim Burton began his career as an apprentice at Walt Disney Animation Studios in the early 1980s. By the time "The Nightmare Before Christmas" was released in 1993, the director was big...
It's hard to overstate what an absolute shock to the system "Psycho" was to the thriller genre in 1960. Not just for its content or its gore (which is tame by modern...