Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…

Our culture’s continued inability to hold on to two vaguely conflicting ideas at the same time (for example, “Marvel…

“I believe in America.” Those are the first words spoken in The Godfather. We hear them before we even see the face…

Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Dracula gets too much shit. While it’s good and proper to make fun of Keanu…

In 1967, Tulsa teenager Susie Hinton published her first novel, The Outsiders. The first-person narrative of Ponyboy…

“It left me just… speechless. Colorless. Bloodless. I couldn’t possibly believe there was that kind of savagery in…

The next time someone tells you documentaries are dull, there’s another title you can add to the long, long list of…

In times of peril, some people feel compelled (or are, in fact, legally compelled) to pick up a weapon. There’s no…

Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now wouldn’t have made a good video game in the 8-bit era, where stories were…

Is it irony or just hypocrisy that Harry Caul, the professional snoop Gene Hackman plays in The Conversation, is…

As reported by Deadline, Francis Ford Coppola’s production company, American Zoetrope, has taken to Kickstarter to…

A good biography should endeavor to not simply tell the story of its subject’s life, but also to interrogate that…

What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s film critics and readers to share their thoughts,…

Back before YA was even a recognizable genre of literature, teenager S.E. (Susan Eloise) Hinton rocked the…

If the New Hollywood of the 1970s was a high school, Steven Spielberg would be the sensitive one, Martin Scorsese…

Experimental filmmaker Godfrey Reggio blew people’s minds back in 1982 with his 85-minute cinematic tone poem Koyaani…

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They…

“All presidents are lonely guys,” humorist Bruce Jay Friedman once wrote, “since they have to go off regularly and…

This year’s Toronto International Film Festival has just begun, and one horror movie franchise has already been…

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week:…