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George Lucas’s Red Tails, Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness.

Why it's wrong to equate military service with heroism.

Who are films like Speed Racer, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and The Edge of Heaven really aimed at?

Major League Baseball owners may gripe, but the World Baseball Classic
provides a glimpse of an alternative future for our national pastime.

The progressive and regressive politics of Star Wars.

Hitler's filmmaker is Foster's fixation.

This article is adapted from a lecture that was part of a
series on self-censorship in the media given at New York University. The
lecture series is being published this month in The Business of
Journalism (New Press).

The most important day in the history of American independent film was May 8, 1947, which witnessed the opening of a picture so personal--no, so heedlessly self-revelatory--that viewers today sti

I like a filmmaker who walks you into a story.

Summer Celluloid Meltdown