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 ...

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, ...

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’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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Hollywood was already beginning to look like the ghost of itself when Michael Sarne arrived to direct Myra Breckinridge. The old studio system was collapsing, the sexual revolution had blown open the ...

Federico Fellini’s Satyricon (1970) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Querelle (1983) don’t merely depict worlds in which homosexuality is accepted, desired and openly practiced; they construct entire ...

ORLANDO — Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein was first published in 1818, but in the minds of plenty of literary scholars, the book marked the official birth certificate of what’s become known as ...