By Peter Tonguette   Speaking with the authority of one who watched the event from his living room, I’d say the 1995 Academy Awards had a quality of inevitability. On …

Judging from the subject matter, Mom was clearly making the selections, and being as they were adult-themed, the films required follow-up discussions.

By Darrin Quigley   My path in this crazy industry hasn’t been clean. It’s been crooked, loud, funny, painful, sometimes ridiculous — and it has involved a lot of drinking. …

My father was a successful painter, but his second love was movies.

If there is anything that has proven even more enduring than New Hollywood movies, surely it is the cottage industry of books about New Hollywood movies.

That’s the thing about this racket — you never know what odd bit of experience will come in handy.

“Body Double” hit me like a freight train, and it’s easy to see why: I’d argue that there’s never been another film that combines true formal mastery with quintessentially ’80s …

“A Star Is Born” is something of a best-in-class example of how a strong property can stand up to multiple remakes that span generations.

During Christmas 1991, I got my first bass guitar — a Washburn Force ABT in candy-apple red — and started taking lessons at the local music shop. There, I made …

“‘Sunset Boulevard’ is what my wife would call, and I would agree with her, fun junk,” Woody Allen once said. “You know, it’s great fun, but it’s a junky and …