Only Belgian author Georges Simenon (1903-1989) has had more of his books filmed than English author William Somerset Maugham ...

Stephen Follows has used AI to analyze 51,000 movies and has revealed a sharp upward trend in the inclusion of social justice narratives, overt political messaging, and representation-focused casting ...

This list brings together films from across the globe, spanning decades and genres, that remind us of the dangers of unchecked power.

Seated at the very back of the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel, where the 1940 Academy ... of the “race films” — Black-produced films made for Black audiences — Hollywood started ...

Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday is an essential romantic comedy for fans of old Hollywood films. Originally a story about two men, the 1940 film sees a hard-charging New York newspaper editor (Cary ...

And it charged Leon Trotsky — the Jewish Bolshevik murdered on Stalin’s orders in 1940 — with having ... The Cold War was underway. Hollywood’s pro-Soviet films were relegated to the ...

Without any studio backing or financial support from Hollywood, Micheaux went on to make 40 independent films between 1918 ... With the Wind” cast at the 1940 Academy Awards ceremony Hattie ...

the films have several things in common. They are not what U.S. movies used to be like. They enjoy a heady new freedom from formula, convention and censorship. And they are all from Hollywood.