Film Guides & Reviews

Raymond durgnat was a maverick voice during the golden age of film criticism. From the French new Wave and the rise of auteurism, through the late ...

People celebrate the magical holiday of Halloween in a wide variety of ways, but most will, at some point, turn off the lights and allow a movie to...

Showcasing 52 Essential films from the golden age to the present, Turner Classic Movies invites you into a world filled with stirring performances,...

The movie that inspired filmmakers to direct is like the atomic bomb that went off before their eyes. The Film That Changed My Life captures that e...

Whether you judge by box office receipts, industry awards, or critical accolades, science fiction films are the most popular movies now being produ...

Explore the rich history of cinema like never before, from the golden age of black-and-white films to international art-house and 21st-century sci-...

Gone with the Wind (1939) is one of the greatest films of all time - the best-known of Hollywood''s Golden Age and a work that has, in popular imag...

Offering a fresh perspective on The General, arguably one of the most successful American films of the silent era, this insightful text analyses it...

This encyclopedic reference work treats a near-century's worth of Japanese films released in the United States in theaters or on video and the i...

Batman's tech has been reimagined and reinvigorated in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the new blockbuster from director Zack Snyder releasing ...

Why write about Roman Polanski's Macbeth (1971) as part of a series of books dedicated to the classics of the horror movie genre? Because, Rebekah ...

Since the first baseball movie (Little Sunset) in 1915, Hollywood has had an on-again, off-again affair with the sport, releasing more than 100 ...

In Jacques Rancire and the Politics of Art Cinema, James Harvey contends that Rancire's writing allows us to broach art and politics on the very sa...

Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie is the first academic monograph to consider the aesthetic and narrative potential of this highly popular, yet o...

An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-98) has become a neglected figure ...

From documentary to art-house cinema and from an abundance of onscreen images to their complete absence films that experiment variously with narr...

Examining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of th...