| Holy Mess: Anthony Quinn in The Shoes of the Fisherman |
May 10, 2025 |
| Truth, Myth or Both? Getting History Right in Battle of Britain |
May 3, 2025 |
| His Own Worst Enemy: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in The Trip |
April 26, 2025 |
| Summertime Blues: James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation |
April 19, 2025 |
| House Proud: Cary Grant in Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House |
April 12, 2025 |
| Requiem for a Louse: Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success |
April 5, 2025 |
| A Hard One to Like: Mike Leigh's Naked |
March 29, 2025 |
| A Connoisseur's Guide to Violence on Film |
March 22, 2025 |
| Dirty Work: Randolph Scott Turns Nasty in Decision at Sundown |
March 15, 2025 |
| All the President's Men: The Biggest Story of Them All |
March 8, 2025 |
| Mrs. Miniver: The Best Propaganda Money Could Buy |
March 1, 2025 |
| Ham Sandwich: Lombard and Barrymore in Twentieth Century |
February 22, 2025 |
| Try That in a Small Town: The Last Picture Show |
February 15, 2025 |
| Love and Death: Gene Tierney in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
February 8, 2025 |
| One of Those Things: Doris Day and Frank Sinatra in Young at Heart |
February 1, 2025 |
| Clean Out Your Desk: Jason Reitman's Up in the Air |
January 25, 2025 |
| Office Space: Jean Negulesco's The Best of Everything |
January 18, 2025 |
| Broken Codes: Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne in Thirteen Women |
January 11, 2025 |
| The Conformist: How to Make a Fascist |
January 4, 2025 |
| Turning the Tide: Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands |
December 28, 2024 |
| Stuffed Turkey: Barbara Stanwyck in Christmas in Connecticut |
December 21, 2024 |
| Boys to Men: John Sturges and Last Train from Gun Hill |
December 14, 2024 |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! and Pearl Harbor, Eighty-Three Years Later |
December 7, 2024 |
| Smooth Criminal: Jean Gabin in Pépé le Moko |
November 30, 2024 |
| Drowning not Waving: Spalding Gray and Swimming to Cambodia |
November 23, 2024 |
| Two Peas in a Plot: Laurel and Hardy in Sons of the Desert |
November 16, 2024 |
| Fear of Flying: John Wayne, the Disaster Movie and The High and the Mighty |
November 9, 2024 |
| In Long's Shadow: Huey Long, Willie Stark and All the King's Men |
November 2, 2024 |
| Pure Spirits: The Uninvited and the Ghost Story |
October 26, 2024 |
| Bug in Your Ear: Hammer Films and Quatermass and the Pit |
October 19, 2024 |
| No Fair Play: Jean Renoir and The Rules of the Game |
October 12, 2024 |
| What She Saw: Kate Winslet as Lee Miller |
October 5, 2024 |
| Americans Abroad: The Cold War in Whit Stillman's Barcelona |
September 28, 2024 |
| No Dirty Habits: Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison |
September 21, 2024 |
| Big Town: The Western Goes Epic with Errol Flynn and Dodge City |
September 14, 2024 |
| All Hot and Crowthered: Ginger Rogers in Roxie Hart |
September 7, 2024 |
| See the Bad Man: Blast of Silence and the Birth of Neo-Noir |
August 31, 2024 |
| There Goes Tokyo: Japan's Constant Crisis and Godzilla Minus One |
August 24, 2024 |
| A Hot Mess: Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon and the Horrible Heist |
August 17, 2024 |
| Peepshow: Alfred Hitchcock Shows Us Where to Look in Rear Window |
August 10, 2024 |
| Mad About the Boy: Britain's Sixties Begin with Tom Jones |
August 3, 2024 |
| Head Cases: Political Satire and The President's Analyst |
July 27, 2024 |
| Nothing Human: John Huston's The Night of the Iguana |
July 20, 2024 |
| Kiss Me Comrade: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton and Reds |
July 13, 2024 |
| The Other Half Lives: Judy Holliday in The Marrying Kind |
July 6, 2024 |
| Jaws: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Theatre |
June 29, 2024 |
| Hot Topics: Telling the Truth in Chronicle of a Summer |
June 22, 2024 |
| A Bad Place for Bad Men: Jimmy Stewart in The Naked Spur |
June 15, 2024 |
| A Solid Bond: 007 Takes Shape in From Russia with Love |
June 8, 2024 |
| The Sword of Doom: Endless Violence in the Samurai Film |
June 1, 2024 |
| Dirty Old Town: The City, Corruption and In Old Chicago |
May 25, 2024 |
| Crocodile Tears: Carole Lombard's Doomed Heroine in Nothing Sacred |
May 18, 2024 |
| Down in the Depths: Destination Tokyo and the Submarine Movie |
May 11, 2024 |
| Ship to Shore: John Ford and The Long Voyage Home |
May 4, 2024 |
| What Do You Got? The Wild One, The Loveless and the Biker Movie |
April 27, 2024 |
| Island in the Sun: Pietro Germi's Seduced and Abandoned |
April 20, 2024 |
| On the Verge of Revolution: John Malkovich's The Dancer Upstairs |
April 13, 2024 |
| Frenemy Mine: Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers in Stage Door |
April 6, 2024 |
| Street Crime: Ninety-Six New York Minutes in The Naked City |
March 30, 2024 |
| War in the Air: Twelve O'Clock High and Masters of the Air |
March 23, 2024 |
| Quadrophenia: It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World |
March 16, 2024 |
| A System All My Own: Claudette Colbert and It Happened One Night |
March 9, 2024 |
| War and Rumours of War: Alfred Hitchcock and The 39 Steps |
March 2, 2024 |
| When It All Went Boom: A Generation Arrives with The Big Chill |
February 24, 2024 |
| Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin and the Hard Sell |
February 17, 2024 |
| Sam Spade on a Shag Rug: Gene Hackman in Night Moves |
February 10, 2024 |
| Work to Rule: Doris Day and The Pajama Game |
February 3, 2024 |
| Bumper Cars: Jacques Tati Gets Caught in Trafic |
January 27, 2024 |
| Family Feud: Barbara Stanwyck in Anthony Mann's The Furies |
January 20, 2024 |
| Everything Must Change: Burt Lancaster in The Leopard |
January 13, 2024 |
| Office Space: Executive Suite and the Business Movie |
January 6, 2024 |
| Unlucky Lindy: Billy Wilder and The Spirit of St. Louis |
December 30, 2023 |
| Angel's Share: Cary Grant in The Bishop's Wife |
December 23, 2023 |
| Ladies' Choice: Three on a Match and the Pre-Code picture |
December 16, 2023 |
| Trapped by the Night: Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows |
December 9, 2023 |
| Great Men Deserve Great Pictures: Ridley Scott's Napoleon |
December 2, 2023 |
| No Man of Her Own: Gable and Lombard's Only Flip of the Coin |
November 25, 2023 |
| Rumours of War: Guadalcanal Diary and the Combat Movie |
November 18, 2023 |
| Unreal Estate: Robert Wise and the Tasteful Fright of The Haunting |
October 28, 2023 |
| Our Psycho: Hannibal Lecter and The Silence of the Lambs |
October 21, 2023 |
| Memories are Made of This: Terence Davies and Distant Voices, Still Lives |
October 14, 2023 |
| Lust in the Dust: King Vidor, the Sexy Western and Duel in the Sun |
October 7, 2023 |
| Buried Truth: Richard III and Toxic Males in The Lost King |
September 30, 2023 |
| Behind Enemy Lines: One of Our Aircraft is Missing |
September 23, 2023 |
| No Mercy: David Lean, the Law and Great Expectations |
September 16, 2023 |
| For Love or Money: Corporate Raiders, the '80s Boom and Other People's Money |
September 9, 2023 |
| Change Partners: Screwball Heroine Ginger Rogers in Vivacious Lady |
September 2, 2023 |
| Another Cup of Coffee: City Life and the End of the Automat |
August 26, 2023 |
| Time for Love: Judy Garland, Vincente Minnelli and The Clock |
August 19, 2023 |
| No More Heroes Any More: Noir Goes to London in Night and the City |
August 12, 2023 |
| And Then There Were None: Randolph Scott and 7 Men From Now |
August 5, 2023 |
| Destroyer of Worlds: History and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer |
July 29, 2023 |
| Maddening and Confounding: John Cassavetes and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie |
July 22, 2023 |
| Punch Cards and Picket Lines: Jean Arthur in The Devil and Miss Jones |
July 15, 2023 |
| Happy Birthday, Baby: Cars, Teens and American Graffiti |
July 8, 2023 |
| Peace at a Price: Ealing Studios, Postwar Britain and Passport to Pimlico |
July 1, 2023 |
| Things Fall Apart: Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and the TV Documentary |
June 24, 2023 |
| Hot and Bothered: Elizabeth Taylor, the Production Code and BUtterfield 8 |
June 17, 2023 |
| Racing is Life: Steve McQueen and His Mighty Flop, Le Mans |
June 10, 2023 |
| Beauty, Nostalgia and Betrayal in Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love |
June 3, 2023 |
| The War at Sea: Sink the Bismarck! |
May 27, 2023 |
| What Should Have Been: Denzel Washington and Devil in a Blue Dress |
May 20, 2023 |
| You Don't Own Me: Burt Lancaster and Ossie Davis in The Scalphunters |
May 13, 2023 |
| Royal Pain: King Charles III and the Agony of Succession |
May 6, 2023 |
| If It's Not Scottish: Bill Forsyth and Local Hero |
April 29, 2023 |
| No Wall Between Us: Spy Movies and the Strange World of The Quiller Memorandum |
April 22, 2023 |
| Preps, Schooled: The Twilight of the WASP in Metropolitan |
April 15, 2023 |
| Kill the Wabbit: What's Opera, Doc?, Looney Tunes and Ask Me Anything |
April 8, 2023 |
| Fifth Avenue Girl: The Quiet Screwball |
April 1, 2023 |
| Your Generation: The Boomers Progress and The Wanderers |
March 25, 2023 |
| There Be Monsters: The Bug-Out Fantasy of Tremors |
March 18, 2023 |
| The Oscar: Triumph of the Heel |
March 11, 2023 |
| Loser Pays: Victor's Justice, the End of War and Land of Mine |
March 4, 2023 |
| Hope in Hell: Don Ameche, Ernst Lubitsch and Heaven Can Wait |
February 25, 2023 |
| How to Make a Bad Man: Henry Fonda and Warlock |
February 18, 2023 |
| Fight Another Day: Paddy Chayefsky and The Americanization of Emily |
February 11, 2023 |
| Behind in the News: Doris Day, Clark Gable and Teacher's Pet |
February 4, 2023 |
| Love in a Time of Plenty: Judy Holliday and The Solid Gold Cadillac |
January 28, 2023 |
| You Think You're Funny? The Nice Guys and the Modern Film Noir |
January 21, 2023 |
| Hello Darkness: Is The Big Combo the Best Film Noir Ever? |
January 14, 2023 |
| Unwelcome Guests: Bette Davis and The Man Who Came to Dinner |
January 7, 2023 |
| Fee Fi Fo Fum: Happily Breaking No New Ground with Troll |
December 31, 2022 |
| Santa, I Don't Care: Robert Mitchum, Howard Hughes and Holiday Affair |
December 24, 2022 |
| Go Where the Journeyman Leads: Steve McQueen and Nevada Smith |
December 17, 2022 |
| Agony of Defeat: Postwar Japan and The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On |
December 10, 2022 |
| Bomb Damage: Michael Powell and A Canterbury Tale |
December 3, 2022 |
| Smirking in the Face of Death: Lauren Bacall and Designing Woman |
November 26, 2022 |
| Live and On Screen: The Last Waltz, Urgh! A Music War and the Concert Movie |
November 19, 2022 |
| Where Will You Go? Elia Kazan, Wild River and the TVA |
November 12, 2022 |
| A War to Render All Wars: All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix |
November 5, 2022 |
| Dracula in Sin City: The Night Stalker and Prime Time Horror |
October 29, 2022 |
| What You Can't See Might Hurt You: The Innocents and the Ghost Story |
October 22, 2022 |
| Low Dishonest Decade: Robert Aldrich, Hustle and the '70s |
October 15, 2022 |
| Left Hanging: Randolph Scott and Ride Lonesome |
October 8, 2022 |
| Something Rotten: Preston Sturges and The Great McGinty |
October 1, 2022 |
| After School Special: Lindsay Anderson and If.... |
September 24, 2022 |
| Do You Take This Woman? Myrna Loy and Third Finger, Left Hand |
September 17, 2022 |
| Her Majesty's Public Private Life: The Queen Onscreen in The Queen |
September 10, 2022 |
| God Has Entered the Conversation: Dore Schary and The Next Voice You Hear |
September 3, 2022 |
| Best Western: Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster in The Professionals |
August 27, 2022 |
| Hot Fun in the Summertime: Marilyn Monroe, Billy Wilder and The Seven Year Itch |
August 20, 2022 |
| Family Feud: Tae Guk Gi and the Korean War film by Koreans |
August 13, 2022 |
| Calling Barranca: Howard Hawks and Only Angels Have Wings |
August 6, 2022 |
| Town Without Pity: Yul Brynner in Invitation to a Gunfighter |
July 30, 2022 |
| Coming Apart Together: John Carpenter and They Live |
July 23, 2022 |
| The More You Drive: Repo Man and Punk Cinema |
July 16, 2022 |
| This Butcher's Yard: Michael Caine and Zulu |
July 9, 2022 |
| You Can't Go Back Again: Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye |
July 2, 2022 |
| Cult Status: Paul Williams and Phantom of the Paradise |
June 25, 2022 |
| Everywhere and Nowhere: Percy Faith and A Summer Place |
June 18, 2022 |
| The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Ace High and the Spaghetti Western |
June 11, 2022 |
| Pistol Whipped: Living up to the Legend of the Sex Pistols |
June 4, 2022 |
| Start the Revolution Without Me: Memories of Underdevelopment |
May 28, 2022 |
| An Inspector Calls: Alastair Sim in Green for Danger |
May 21, 2022 |
| Double Cross Double Feature: Operation Mincemeat and The Man Who Never Was |
May 14, 2022 |
| Love and War: Jimmy Stewart and Strategic Air Command |
May 7, 2022 |
| Second Time as Farce: Bogie, John Huston and Beat the Devil |
April 30, 2022 |
| Sucker Punch: 99 River Street and the Joys of B-Noir |
April 23, 2022 |
| Does it Western? Edward Dmytryk and Broken Lance |
April 16, 2022 |
| Thank You Uncle Elwy: Constance Bennett, Roland Young and Topper |
April 9, 2022 |
| Comedy vs. Democracy: Elaine May and A New Leaf |
April 2, 2022 |
| Grimmer by the Pound: Jules Dassin and Thieves' Highway |
March 26, 2022 |
| Waiting for Gundown: Budd Boetticher and The Tall T |
March 19, 2022 |
| Stranger in a Strange Land: Alfred Hitchcock Goes Screwball |
March 12, 2022 |
| Death Becomes Him: Bob Fosse and All That Jazz |
March 5, 2022 |
| Strange Love: Gene Tierney and the Riddle of Laura |
February 26, 2022 |
| Rode Hard: Steve McQueen and Junior Bonner |
February 19, 2022 |
| For the Duration: George Stevens, Jean Arthur and The More the Merrier |
February 12, 2022 |
| Ten Cents a Dance: Doris Day and Love Me or Leave Me |
February 5, 2022 |
| The Two Johns: John Milius and the Legend of Dillinger |
January 29, 2022 |
| What Becomes a Legend Most? Finding Buffalo Bill |
January 22, 2022 |
| The Only Man for the Job: Cary Grant and The Awful Truth |
January 15, 2022 |
| Wide Open Spaces: Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse |
January 8, 2022 |
| Last Chances: Gloria Grahame and In a Lonely Place |
January 1, 2022 |
| Shedunnit: Barbara Stanwyck and Remember the Night |
December 25, 2021 |
| John Wayne Must Die: The Cowboys and the Western |
December 18, 2021 |
| You Have to be Crazy: Carole Lombard and True Confession |
December 11, 2021 |
| Not All Right: The Ice Storm and the Seventies |
December 4, 2021 |
| What's in a Plague? Elia Kazan and Panic in the Streets |
November 27, 2021 |
| Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? Barbara Stanwyck and Forty Guns |
November 20, 2021 |
| Gold-Digger in Gold Lamé: Claudette Colbert and Midnight |
November 13, 2021 |
| Duel in the Sun: Ben Kingsley and Sexy Beast |
November 6, 2021 |
| Better Left Unseen: Night of the Demon |
October 30, 2021 |
| Farewell, My Lovely: Into the Past with Robert Mitchum |
October 23, 2021 |
| An Ancient Race: Once Upon a Time in the West |
October 16, 2021 |
| Chock Full O' Nuts: Preston Sturges and Easy Living |
October 9, 2021 |
| The Triumph of the Feel: Broadcast News and the New News |
October 2, 2021 |
| Leave Them Wanting More: Douglas Sirk and Imitation of Life |
September 18, 2021 |
| Reliving a Nightmare: 9/11 and the Naudet Brothers |
September 11, 2021 |
| The Girl Can't Help It: Ernst Lubitsch and Cluny Brown |
September 4, 2021 |
| Trapped in a Corner: Robert Altman, Richard Nixon and Secret Honor |
August 28, 2021 |
| Over the Top: Written on the Wind and The Tarnished Angels |
August 21, 2021 |
| Nice While It Lasted: Two for the Seesaw |
August 14, 2021 |
| Made For Each Other: Libeled Lady |
August 7, 2021 |
| City Onscreen: Los Angeles Plays Itself |
July 31, 2021 |
| Feeling Too Much: Douglas Sirk, Magnificent Obsession and All That Heaven Allows |
July 24, 2021 |
| What Ails Us: The Hospital |
July 17, 2021 |
| Spellbound: I Married a Witch |
July 10, 2021 |
| The Man You Love to Hate: Steve Coogan, Tony Wilson and 24 Hour Party People |
July 3, 2021 |
| Bells Are Ringing: The End of the Freed Unit |
June 26, 2021 |
| When Hollywood Went Nuts: The Swimmer |
June 19, 2021 |
| Mad Love: History Is Made at Night |
June 12, 2021 |
| Mike Leigh and Career Girls: Time Heals Most Wounds |
June 5, 2021 |
| MGM's Movie Musicals, the Freed Unit and It's Always Fair Weather |
May 29, 2021 |
| When Hollywood Went Nuts: The Chase |
May 22, 2021 |
| Design For Living: Give 'em Hecht |
May 15, 2021 |
| Miracle Mile, or How I Learned to Love Worrying About the Bomb |
May 8, 2021 |
