“You’re a newspaperman.” 

The 1970s are a hallowed time in film history. As the classic studio system gave way to the rebellious innovations…

It only took three years for Edward Norton to solidify his entire Hollywood persona. After his explosive debut in Pri…

If there’s one thing I took away from my four years at theater school, it’s that plays are meant to be seen, not…

It took Amy Heckerling a while to realize she’d written an Emma homage. Her TV pilot script centered on a rich,…

By 2000, Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey both wanted a change. She’d burst onto the scene with Selena, found…

The Apartment premiered in the summer of 1960, three years before Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique kicked off…

“If I were writing a paper about it, I’d say it’s feminization of the camp aesthetic—bringing emotion to something…

Strange things can happen when you’re stuck in a house with someone. It’s a lesson people all across the world are…

In the age of streaming, it’s easy to assume that everything is just a click or two away. But even our biggest movie…

If romantic comedies are our modern-day fairy tales and celebrities our modern-day royalty, then it’s a little…

Patrick Dempsey can juggle. That’s become an increasingly big part of his public persona over the years, and it’s…

In turbulent times, we often look to pop culture for comfort. So as America moved out of the idealized era of…

Last year, Avengers: Endgame made a huge splash when it finally broke Avatar’s 10-year reign as the highest grossing…

When writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood first began working on her screenplay for Love & Basketball, the WNBA…

Nora Ephron loved words. Her parents were an old Hollywood screenwriting duo who raised their four daughters with…

From Hustlers to Her Smell to Homecoming, 2019 was a great year for films about female ambition—not that you’d know…

Since When Romance Met Comedy kicked off 2019 with an impassioned defense of Katherine Heigl and 27 Dresses, it…

Movies about movies usually draw back the veil on the filmmaking process, but in 2006, Nancy Meyers made a…

Lucy Moderatz (Sandra Bullock) spends her days behind a glass window in a Chicago Transit Authority booth and her…