80 years on, Michael Curtiz's romantic drama retains a defiant spirit more relevant to our current political climate than it might first appear.

Sunset Boulevard showed the damage wrought by fame. Seventy years on, popular culture is more obsessed than ever with being seen

Forty years ago this week, ‘The Wrath of Khan’ rejected the idea that humanity can fully transcend its flaws.

The 1944 Hollywood thriller gave us Taylor Swift’s favorite phrase and stoked cultural fears over home invasion.

In 1998, a brutal, controversial indie film portrayed a bleak vision of race relations in the US that appears to have predicted a growing 21st-Century movement, writes Tom Joudrey.

Perhaps it’s time to find a new way to tell our life stories.

Thirty years after its release, ‘A River Runs Through It’ stands out as a rarity: a film that finds meaning in the past without yearning to restore it.

Forty years ago this week, ‘The Wrath of Khan’ rejected the idea that humanity can fully transcend its flaws.

Western cultures once were obsessed with dead bodies. Today we dispose of them with clinical efficiency. Are we missing something important?

On its 50th anniversary, a movie mainly remembered for its aesthetic power resonates for other reasons.

Long before Hollywood made killer robots seem all too plausible, the British author worried that technology would undermine humanity by making life too easy.

The body positivity movement wants to call everyone beautiful. But what if instead of gazing into the mirror we smashed it?

From Alexander the Great to Ronnie Kray, the hosts of the Bad Gays podcast reveal the most villainous LGBTQ+ figures ever – and explain why it’s important to discuss the problematic alongside the good

Scrooge’s metamorphosis from miser to giver masks an acceptance of economic inequality.

Featuring one of cinema’s most famous villains and two grand dames of Hollywood – Bette Davis and Joan Crawford – going toe to toe, this 1962 film packs a punch

First hailed, later mocked, the Oscar-winning epic deserves credit for subverting its own genre.

In the late 1990s, a previously taboo topic suddenly broke through on the airwaves — as long as the singers were men.

Hollywood classic mirrors our age of political paranoia

Her movies are a master class in rage.

The Christmas classic is preoccupied with George Bailey, but Mary is the one living wonderfully.

Romantic comedies once expressed the American aspiration to transcend economic class. That dream feels less realistic than ever.

Forty years ago this week, ‘The Wrath of Khan’ rejected the idea that humanity can fully transcend its flaws.

They’re tawdry, cheap, and garish — and an antidote to some of our festering national bitterness.

First hailed, later mocked, the Oscar-winning epic deserves credit for subverting its own genre.

In the late 1990s, a previously taboo topic suddenly broke through on the airwaves — as long as the singers were men.

In the late 1990s, a previously taboo topic suddenly broke through on the airwaves — as long as the singers were men.

First hailed, later mocked, the Oscar-winning epic deserves credit for subverting its own genre.

First hailed, later mocked, the Oscar-winning epic deserves credit for subverting its own genre.