A landmark film of 1950’s rebellion, The Wild One was loosely based on an incident that occurred over the Fourth of July weekend in 1947 in Hollister, California, (publicized in an issue of Harper’s Magazine in a January 1951 article…
Based on the “Walt Longmire Mysteries” written by best-selling author Craig Johnson, Longmire focuses on no nonsense Sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) who returns to work in Absaroka County, Wyoming after the death of his wife. Assisted by his daughter…
The first male actor of African descent to be nominated for a competitive Academy Award, for The Defiant Ones in 1958, Sidney Poitier would become the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964, for…
Originally on the air from January 12, 1966 – March 14, 1968, Batman: The Television Series was extremely popular, and called “the biggest TV phenomenon of the mid-1960s.” The series established the look and perception of the DC Comics character until Tim Burton began a…
Directed by James Marsh, best known for his daring documentaries such as Man on a Wire and Project NIM, The Theory of Everything is a bit of a departure. The film tells the life story of Stephen Hawking, but unlike…
Initially released in August 1977 and first aired in prime time on CBS in November 1979, Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown has finally made it to DVD. Third in a series of films based on the iconic Peanuts comic…
In 1962, FrançoisTruffaut was able to sit down with director Alfred Hitchcock for several extended interviews, where the auteur discussed each of his films. Later published in 1967, as Hitchcock/Truffaut the book has become a classic, and a staple of…
First introduced in 1969, the adventures of Scooby-Doo—a talking brown Great Dane—and his teenage friends Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville “Shaggy” Rogers who solve crimes involving supposedly supernatural creatures has become a cultural phenomenon. Given the success…
Written and directed by Jean Renoir, A Day in the Country was filmed largely in 1936, but Renoir never finished the film due to weather problems, and left the production to begin work on The Lower Depths. It was released…
Jon Stewart’s directorial debut, Rosewater is based on a memoir by Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari. Arrested by Iranian authorities in the summer of 2009, Bahari (Gael Garcia Bernal) was covering the growing wave of protests that followed the reelection of…