Long Take is a revelatory new portrait of Akira Kurosawa, the masterful Japanese filmmaker whose classic films include Rashoman (1950) Seven Samurai (1954), The Hidden Fortress (1958), High and Low ...

Talking monkeys vlogging from sacred sites, three-legged sharks wearing Nike sneakers, babies trapped in space… if you spend any time on social media these days you’re likely to come across such ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle and national history. One of the boldest examples is The ...

Beginning in the late 1890s, film was becoming the new popular entertainment in cities and towns across the United States. The first film screening in America took place in April 1896 at a New York ...

Are movies art, or entertainment? Does watching violent films encourage violent behavior in teenagers? Should movies be censored? These questions are being debated today, but they were also posed ...