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.

The force isn't for everyone.

The blockbuster Jaws (1975) provoked fear by portraying sharks as "mindless eating machines." But what did people think of sharks before then?

Meet me In St. Louis was the first film to blur the lines between a drama and a musical.

The public fascination was so intense that fans soon started demanding live reenactments.

Night of the Living Dead’s production story reads like a means to an end: a rag-tag group of creatives makes a movie on nothing to get noticed.

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

You might know him from Phantom of the Opera or The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

What the author learned from her mother, a feminist academic doing a research project on film adaptations of Little Women.

The attitudes reflected in the James Bond franchise are wildly out of touch with social reality.

What's the appeal of humor masquerading as seriousness? An entire movie genre stands ready to shed light on that question.

Whatever your thoughts on the Broadway production, An American in Paris is a big deal in the history of movie musicals.

The awesome destructive power of the beast is widely understood to be a metaphor for nuclear weapons. Is this too facile an idea?

Iconic musical "The Sound of Music" celebrates its 50th anniversary.