Long one of the most successful animation series on television, The Flintstones have returned in their first new production in fourteen years. A direct-to-video animated film, The Flintstones and WWE: Stone Age Smackdown is a partnership between Warner Bros. and…
A social crusader and a champion of the first amendment, Lenny Bruce was a man ahead of his time. Incarcerated repeatedly for his act, comedians such as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and a slew of others owe him…
Formed in 1946, Martin and Lewis were comic gold during the first half of the 1950’s, dominating stage, screen, and the new medium of television. The duo even had a radio a radio show on NBC from 1949 until 1953….
Long before the soft core sensuality of Fifty Shades of Grey was heating up theaters, writer/director Zalman King was pushing boundaries with his own brand of eroticism. After co-writing and producing the erotic drama 9 ½ Weeks—which became an international…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…