It’s said that the best jokes, like the best mysteries, are ones where the punchline is contained in the set-up. Jordan Peele's Get Out offers a sinister reworking of this maxim.

A miniseries directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder finally has its U.S. premier 45 years later and reminds us of the phenomenon of this great German director.

Women's suffrage was usually portrayed negatively in early films, but suffragists well recognized the importance of movies in getting their message out.

A young Richard Nixon started asking studio executives why they didn't produce anti-Communist movies. The studios quickly responded with anti-Red films.

On the 75th anniversary of the premier of Casablanca, let's revisit the art and politics of this venerable American classic.

Frederick Wiseman's 42nd documentary in 50 years of film-making has just been released. What's he making movies about, anyway?

Ironically, it was movies that helped accustom American viewers to television in the first place, writes Richard Koszarski.

Scientists have successfully encoded a simple movie in bacteria DNA, and played it back. Using DNA for data storage is not as crazy as it sounds...

Jerry Lewis was lionized in France as a film auteur, a genius of movie-making. What did the French know that Americans didn't?

Drive-ins embodied the suburbanization of middle class families -- and created an entirely new way of watching the movies.