Ian Buruma’s Stay Alive recounts wartime Berlin through hidden Jews, German resisters, and the ordeal of his own father.

Landmark vampire movies like Sinners, Nosferatu, and Let the Right One In are among the genre's best and most important.

Which of the 97 films anointed as Best Picture by the Academy are, in reality, the best? And which are the worst? Almost ...

As evening falls, Jess Aidley enjoys watching the lights twinkling in the apartment blocks transforming the waterfront in Shoreham-by-Sea from her houseboat, a 19th century Thames lighter barge named ...

From cobwebs to candelabras, the gothic genre has distinctive traits everyone can recognize. Beginning in early literature and now brought to life in the movies, gothic tales have made an irreversible ...

An eyewitness recalls the fraught encounter between a precocious American college student and a titan of German literature.

In the Star Trek episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever," William Shatner's Kirk is forced to make an impossible decision ...

Stephen King may be famous for horror novels, but his TV recommendations reveal a taste for smart, suspenseful, and often ...

This Sunday will be the biggest night of the year for Los Angeles: Tinseltown’s stars will turn out en masse for the Academy ...

In the Brazilian-made Best Picture nominee The Secret Agent, set in that country’s authoritarian 1970s, a pungent sequence features an animated amputated leg, acting as a surreal “stand-in” for police ...

Compared to today's Academy Awards, the first Oscars held in 1929 was a quaint dinner party that honored a history-making best picture.

This episode unpacks the domestic political struggles leading up to the signing of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941. Lynne Olson, acclaimed historian and author of Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, ...