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The Godfather is a rare thing: An artfully made crowd-pleaser that smashed it at the box office and delighted both critics and a mainstream audience. Over half a century since it premiered, Lee Adams takes...

Like any self-respecting series, we have now reached the point when it’s time to do a prequel! After our A to Z guides of cult movies from the ‘70s to the ‘90s, we now...

Like any self-respecting series, we have now reached the point when it’s time to do a prequel! After our A to Z guides of cult movies from the ‘70s to the ‘90s, we now...

The world of super-hero franchises moves quickly and nothing stays the latest version of anything for very long. Sometimes it blows my mind that we’re already two Batmans (three if you count Will Arnett’s...

Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns were made roughly equidistant between the origins of the genre and the present day. It is hard to think of another series of films that so definitively drew a line...

In 2002, film critic Colin McCabe ruffled feathers by submitting Carry on Cleo and Carry On Up The Khyber among his picks for the 100 Greatest Films Ever Made.They may not be fine art,...