Akira Kurosawa first rose to prominence as a director during the 1940s, with perhaps his first great (or at least close to ...

In this 1952 film noir thriller, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright seduced by a murderous Jack Palance. “It’s a masterpiece of suspense,” says Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood and the ...

The film noir genre is an undoubtedly unique one, as itâ s perhaps the only genre that has a specific period during which it existed: from the early 1940s until the end of the 1950s. There were movies ...

Michigan State University Libraries received a $1 million federal grant to digitize early WKAR-TV programs from the 1950s and ...

Variety Lights (1950) is about a gorgeous, ambitious young woman, Lilliana. She joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians, unintentionally causing jealousy and emotional turmoil. The film ...

Stephanie Weber is a writer and comedian who has bylines in Reductress, The AV Club, Mental Floss, Slate, Mr. Skin, and more. She has an MFA in dramatic writing from SCAD. She wrote and directed the ...

Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

If you listen to the Left, the 1950s were a decade of boring conformity (the poet Robert Lowell referred to it as “the tranquilized Fifties”) — and the movies of that era, one is told, were a ...

The dramatic, weird monochrome imagery of 1950s science fiction movies comes to life in the work of Alberto Mena, who photographs scenes from the movies off his television screen, and then manipulates ...