Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...

Kirk Douglas broke new ground in Hollywood in a number of different ways, not least of all making a fortune for doing next to ...

Co-written by Dalton Trumbo while he was blacklisted from Hollywood and MacKinlay Kantor, Trumbo used the alias Millard Kaufman for its credits. It was based upon the short story, The Saturday ...

Many writers strive to suggest a story’s coming complications—its “stakes,” so to speak—in the first paragraph or two. These ...

This month's picks include a pair of classic rom-coms and a diverse array of thrillers and dramas The post The 7 Best Movies ...

Who is going to speak out? That’s the disturbing question being debated this week in response to the discordant noises from ...

Hence the essay as the vehicle to figure out what one thinks. It was in the same vein that Dalton Trumbo once told a budding screenwriter who was struggling to put his finger on the feelings of a ...

Shadow and fog will figuratively roll into Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre this week and next during the 22nd Noir City film festival running Jan. 24 through Feb. 2. Alameda's Eddie Muller -- host of ...

If you love Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator' movies, you owe it to yourself to watch Stanley Kubrick's epic 'Spartacus.' ...