The fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation. The activities of a fifth column can be overt or ...

New York City has been variously portrayed on screen as a battlefield, a nightmare, a playground, a proving ground and a place where nobody can hear themselves think. But in 1981’s They All Laughed, ...

Some people say that 1939 was the best year for cinema (me me me) and what a year it was: Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Dark Victory and Stagecoach are ...

There are documentaries that record history, documentaries that interpret it … and Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, which seems to demand that history surrender its corpse. Released in 1985 after more than a ...

There’s something almost too perfect about The Sting and Paper Moon arriving within months of each other in 1973. Both are Depression-era stories about people who survive by lying, cheating and ...

And this is the problem for Larry Donner. He has written a book. But his ex-wife stole it from him and when she publishes it, it becomes a bestseller. He wants to kill her, figuratively. So he is ...

I was one of those very lucky folks that got to see this movie on the big screen and it has been a favorite ever since. Jonas Taylor is a renowned deep sea explorer and rescuer who had a mission go ...

There’s a familiar honorific in American letters: “The Great American Novel.” It’s been attached, with varying degrees of seriousness and exhaustion, to Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ...

“This is the true story of a man and a gun and a car. The gun belonged to the man. The car might have been yours — or that young couple across the aisle. What you will see in the next seventy minutes ...

Some films are ahead of their time. Others seem to have been waiting for a different theatrical environment to arrive. Mike Nichols’ The Day of the Dolphin belongs to the latter category. Released in ...

There’s something improbably touching about Warren Beatty and Buck Henry’s 1978 romantic fantasy Heaven Can Wait because it arrived at precisely the moment when the style of movie it signifies was ...

I love a good disaster movie. This is my favorite genre and I enjoy most disaster films. Especially one that is a throwback to the 1970s but with a modern sensibility. And this Russian film from 2016 ...