The most basic form of American heroism — the individual in lonely, dangerous situations, inspiring opposition to the...

Crime may be the subject closest to the melodramatic heart of the movies. Filmmakers have always loved to show us how...

The family is our most treasured institution and our most vulnerable one. It is constantly threatened internally by g...

Buried treasure, of course. But, more importantly, of states of grace — spiritual, secular, sexual. Quests are anothe...

It's sweetly sentimental sometimes. But it is also snappy, scrappy, and sappy. Occasionally it's gender-bending; ofte...

Movies, we like to say, are the great art form of our time. But that ignores the claims of weaponry. In the age of ma...

Exotic times and places. Unlikely lovers swept up, swept away by the tidal force of grand, desperate, sometimes tragi...

They are the outcasts. They make their own rules, they live outside the law, they have no need for our love, anybody'...

This is our monster rally — sports of nature and mistakes of science in jostling juxtaposition with self-made ogres. ...

Some are surreal — Chaplin trapped in the toils of a modern factory, the Marx Brothers in Freedonia. Some are complet...