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Playing It Again: The Big Business of Re-Releases

How rereleases drove—and still drive—the film industry
September 28, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

From Toronto to New York: The Fall Film Festivals

The fall film festival lineup is filled with avant garde movies and Oscar contenders
September 23, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Out Where the West Begins

A new boxed DVD set examines the history of the West in films.
September 21, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Dinosaur Drive-In: Raptor

In it's own weird way, Raptor is the matryoshka doll of awful dinosaur cinema
September 21, 2011 | By Brian Switek

Celebrating the Nicholas Brothers

A compilation tribute to the extraordinary dance team of Fayard and Harold Nicholas
September 16, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Remembering Robert Breer and Donald Krim

Looking at the careers of an avant-garde animator and a crucial film distributor
September 14, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Lost and Found: HBO and Ernst Lubitsch

A periodic update of film preservation projects.
September 09, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Using Movies to Debate Sign Language

A 1913 film mirrors contemporary conflicts over how best to teach the deaf
September 07, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

A Trip to the Moon as You’ve Never Seen it Before

One of the landmark films in cinema can now be seen in color
September 02, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Where to Find Old Films Online, Streamed Legally and for Free

Thousands of fascinating films are available for free streaming and download, if you know where to look
August 31, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Screening “I Have a Dream”

It may be difficult to view the entire 17-minute speech online, but two noteworthy films were made about the March on Washington that highlight that momentous day
August 26, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Paradise Lost’s Joe Berlinger on the Roots of his West Memphis Three Films

The director of the award-winning documentary reflects on what it was like to film a "real-life Salem Witch Trial"
August 24, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Behind the Lost Hitchcock Film

Found in a New Zealand archive, the White Shadow offers a glimpse into early film history that extends beyond the famous director
August 19, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Ken Kesey on bus

Ken Kesey’s Pranksters Take to the Big Screen

It took an Oscar-winning director to make sense of the drug-addled footage shot by the author and his Merry Pranksters
August 05, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Petting Luna the killer whale

Luna: A Whale to Watch

The true story of a lonely orca leaps from printed page to silver screen, with a boost from new technology
August 2011 | By Michael Parfit

Ricky Schroder and Faye Dunaway in The Champ

The Saddest Movie in the World

How do you make someone cry for the sake of science? The answer lies in a young Ricky Schroder
July 21, 2011 | By Richard Chin

Agatha Christie on the Big and Small Screen

Even though Dame Agatha may not have enjoyed adaptations of her mysteries, audiences have been loving them for decades
May 16, 2011 | By Daniel Eagan

Dinosaur Drive-In: Triassic Attack

The most telling moment in SyFy's latest installment of Saturday night schlock - Triassic Attack - comes fairly early on in the film. Dismayed and angered by the expansion of a nearby college, a Native American protester named Dakota (played by Raoul Trujil...
December 03, 2010 | By Brian Switek

Dino B-Movie Alert: Triassic Attack

Regular readers know that I can't resist cheesy dinosaur movies, and a new SyFy feature set to debut late next month will be the latest stinker to be heaped on the pile of bad dino cinema.Called Triassic Attack, this direct-to-video schlock features the reanimated skeletons of a pterosaur and a Tyr...
October 19, 2010 | By Brian Switek

Dinosaur Drive-In: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

If paleontologists have said it once, they have said it a hundred times: non-avian dinosaurs and humans never coexisted. Most people who insist otherwise are creationist cranks who believe that evidence of a living dinosaur would somehow undermine evolutionary theory, but I understand that Hollywoo...
September 21, 2010 | By Brian Switek


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