In the 1936 screwball comedy mystery The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Dr. Lawrence Bradford (William Powell) asks his ex-wife, the rich mystery writer Paula (Jean Arthur), “What is a cocktail dress?” She replies ...

The role and evolution of revolutionary texts cannot be stressed enough. Printmaking rather than murals became a dominant ...

The plot doesn’t do much to endear the audience to Sally either. Right after meeting her, Zack becomes her assistant and is ...

It is important that groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, can go to court and litigate voting rights ...

The documentary starts by showing how the rich heiresses of New York became celebrities and chased by paparazzi as though they were deities. When blogging exploded on the internet, many were dedicated ...

Damian Comito remembers ordering a coffee at a restaurant in Rome recently. Instead, his server brought him a steaming plate ...

Readers are unlikely to come upon another book on this topic that so thoroughly explores its checkered past and describes in such detail the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that ushered in what we now ...

Cillian Murphy's performance as Bill is great. Similar to Oppenheimer, it relies on Murphy’s facial expressions to show the ...

Montgomery Clift has faded from our cultural landscape so completely that even the most enduring images from some of his most important films aren't of him. Take From Here to Eternity, for example: a ...

Anyone who has followed the Oscars knows that factors outside artistic integrity play into the eventual winners. Must a film or performance be great to land a nomination? Generally, yes. But the art ...

This is a sketch show that serves as a follow-up to the movie of the same name that was released in 1981. It has a cast full of veteran comedians like Nick Kroll, Pamela Adlon, Wanda Sykes, and Jack ...

Later my father put on a gray sweater. We ate chili by a fire. We talked about baseball. My father smiled. He was growing a beard. One day he would be smiling in the Denver Airport of Death, but today ...