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If there was one filmmaker in the second half of the 20th Century who made an impact in the world of cinema. It’s Stanley Kubrick. Considered to be one of the great auteurs in film, he was a filmmaker who never made any explanation into the films he...

By Christopher Sharrett. The label “master of violence” was long ago affixed to director Sam Peckinpah. Books on Peckinpah with titles like “Bloody Sam,” and studies comparing the director’s films to Kubrick’s icy-cold vision in A Clockwork Orange,...

I was shocked this morning to log on to Twitter and learn that Norman Geras had died. I can think of few political writers, who have influenced me more comprehensively. Whenever I faced a difficult moral question, I would at some point think ‘ah...

Originally published in August 2002. Last week Sight and Sound released its list of “the top 10 films of all time.” The titles were terribly predictable, stuffy and boring. So we asked a few our friends to come up with a list of their own 10 favorite...

Today is Sunday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2014. There are three days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 28, 1944, the musical “On the Town,” with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green...