In the 1890s, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London society. With the smash success of his plays and novels (The Importance of ...

Montgomery Clift has faded from our cultural landscape so completely that even the most enduring images from some of his most important films aren't of him. Take From Here to Eternity, for example: a ...

When Hollywood filmmakers find a successful formula, they can be counted on to revisit it, and that assured us of another film teaming Adam Sandler with Drew Barrymore. Unfortunately, “Blended” isn’t ...

Move over, Michael Myers. Stand aside, Freddy Krueger. There is a new horror villain in Hollywood, and he is making Michael and Freddy look friendly by comparison. To call Art the Clown sadistic would ...

Hearing her biography over and over during the Democratic convention confirmed one undisputed fact about her: she’s not only “from the Sixties,” as she said at a Democratic debate last year, but she’s ...

Klieg lights installed on the roof of the Foreign Ministry building—itself, a bleak ten-story monolith—beamed down on arriving guests. I fell in with a crowd of cigar-puffing apparatchiks and their ...

An environmental organization with a $350 million war chest, a giant protest vessel, 28 activists and a rubber raft have succeeded in drawing Russian President Vladimir V. Putin into a very public ...

What differentiates The Zone of Interest from other lesser films centered around the Holocaust is its refusal to engage in the tropes. The atrocities of the Nazis are so inhumane that filmmakers ...

In the 1936 screwball comedy mystery The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Dr. Lawrence Bradford (William Powell) asks his ex-wife, the rich mystery writer Paula (Jean Arthur), “What is a cocktail dress?” She replies ...

This has upset the taxi and cab industry with the new types of car transportation affecting core operations within the city. Uber’s technology has given the company an advantage over yellow cabs, as e ...

Snook’s deadpan delivery is wonderfully offputting while still maintaining an endearing quality. Her unique, eccentric comic ...

Though the country remained under a one-party rule, Vietnam has since the late 1980s eased its once-iron grip on the economy and cultural life, moving from a socialist to a free market economy. Gone ...