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Happily, there’s gold to be found on nearly every page of this engaging book.

There was a small group of women who had exceptionally successful editing careers that started almost at the birth of cinema and continued for much of the 20th century.

Though we GenXers might look back  on our favorite ’80s films with some chagrin, “Parenthood” (1989) holds up.

Nostalgic fans of Siskel and Ebert may be the only readers to welcome all this detail.

The lights came on… Shock. Silence. “Oh man, we’re just working on a schlock low-budget Roger Corman sci-fi,” we thought.

By Doug Drake Although I grew up in the Florida Keys, I was born in San Diego at the Balboa Naval Hospital (my father was in the Navy). For a …

The late filmmaker William Friedkin was fond of describing his 1973 horror masterpiece “The Exorcist” as being a meditation on “the mystery of faith.”

By Matt McFarland   When I was g rowing up in Omaha, Nebraska, during the ’70s and ’80s, movies were a refuge from the Midwestern winters and my favorite source …

It’s an all-time personal favorite. It was also the last movie I watched with my mom.

  By Betsy A. McLane Not all actors and writers are spies,  but every spy has a bit of actor and writer in their personality. Although actors usually seek the …