That's Entertainment! (1974) forever changed the trajectory of my life. That is not hyperbole. As a child, I shared with my older...

The Boy and the Heron (2023), or as it is called in Japan, How Do You Live? takes some time for the audience to understand fully what is...

Barbie (2023) is everywhere now. With that in mind, I thought it appropriate to cover one-half of the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon (I will...

As a plug for his then-upcoming movie, City Slickers (1991), star and host of the 63rd Academy Awards, Billy Crystal, rode onto (and...

Patricio Guzmán's documentary, Nostalgia for the Light (2010), is a riveting watch from beginning to end. The seemingly contradictory...

The original 1977 Star Wars' famous opening crawl begins with the following text: "It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships,...

The Princess Bride (1987) is as close to perfect as a fairy tale movie can be: sweet, charming, funny, swashbuckling, and romantic. Throw...

On April 12th, 1862, Union Army volunteers led by James J. Andrews commandeered a Western & Atlantic Railroad train headed by a steam...

The road leading up to Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) has been long and fascinating. On November 17th, 2017, Warner Bros. released...

The titular character of Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941) is mute, but his mannerisms and charm expressed through the work of Disney's...

When I was in the fifth grade, I read a book on the history of cinema (what the title was, I have completely forgotten) with pictures of...

Nomadland (2020) is about human decency. At the same time, this movie is a condemnation of capitalism, its failures, and the negative...

As turbulent and divided as this country is socially and politically, there is one thing which most people can agree on: how much the...

In 1977, a film called Star Wars revolutionized visual storytelling in a new and fresh way: through the combination of stunning visual...

In her 2015 book Reclaiming Conversation, author Sherry Turkle claims that by continually relying on apps like Siri to perform tasks like...

The theme of humans trying to play God by using technology to create lifelike creatures only for said creatures to get the better of them...

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) was not viewed as an instant classic upon its initial release. While there were some rave reviews like...

Towards the end of World War II, the Nazis drafted numerous young boys like the ones featured in Bernhard Wicki's anti-war film Die...

In Konrad Wolf's East German film Solo Sunny (1980), Ingrid "Sunny" Sommer (played by the incredible Renate Krößner) finds herself...

Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946) (translated to English as The Murderers Are Among Us) was released a year after Germany surrendered to...