While there may be the occasional fluke, like last year’s Barbenheimer phenomenon, the relevance of movies to the public has quickly declined over the past two decades as film fanfare lessens. It’s a ...

Martin Scorsese is a director who is known, above all else, for directing gangster movies. Now, that’s not really a fair characterization of his career. Scorsese has dipped his toes in a variety of ...

We all have our traditions for Christmas. Some sing carols around the neighborhood while others wear ugly sweaters to work and make gingerbread at home. For myself, every year I always go to one place ...

It’s kind of fun to think of the turn of the century as being this transformative experience. In a way, though, for a lot of us who have experienced the Y2K craze, there was something genuinely ...

In a memorable year for film, there were recommendations of blockbusters, tender dramas and coming-of-age-tales. But one title stood out from the rest. By Geordon Wollner A quarter-century later, the ...

A multimedia Culture desk series, “Class of 1999,” revisits a group of mold-breaking, star-studded films released that year. By Sarah Bahr Sarah Bahr was 3 years old in 1999 and is now planning an ...

Maybe the thought first occurred to you during the end of March, when a graceful, modern update of a Shakespearean comedy and a groundbreaking science-fiction movie opened on the same weekend. Or ...

1999 was the close of the century that saw the very beginnings of cinema through its rapid development and evolution. It was ...

In 1999, two science fiction classics changed the movie industry forever: The Matrix and Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace. While conventional wisdom of the time told us The Matrix was looking ...