Orson Welles: Actor, Director, Writer, Legend, And Eventual Magician

May 6, 2020

Reaching the zenith of your career in your twenties has to be maddening. Orson Welles directed Citizen Kane when he was only 25 years old, and even...

6 Dystopian Fantasies That Will Never Be The Same Again After 2020

April 19, 2020

When The Walking Dead premiered in 2010 on AMC, it made regular people wonder how they would handle such an apocalypse. It's a question that genre fa...

The Hays Code: Hollywood's Golden Age's Hard Rules, Explained

March 31, 2020

If you pull up most American movies from the 1930s and '40s, you'll find that they're sweet to the point of cavity-inducing, with a hardened spine of morality ...

Buster Keaton Stunts: GIFs, Videos, And Stories Of His Craziest Feats

December 3, 2019

Though he's remembered for his death-defying stunts, Buster Keaton was so much more than an adrenaline junkie who got his kicks in front of the camera...

Rebel Without A Cause: Curse, Trivia, And More

November 13, 2019

Released on October 27, 1955, nearly a month after Dean's fatal car accident on September 30, Rebel Without a Cause was a groundbreaking film that portrayed the disillusionme...

The Jigsaw Halloween Blood Drives Have Saved Over 360,000 Lives

October 29, 2019

Saw, the film series in which piles of unlucky people are killed in ironic and gruesome ways isn't exactly what you'd call "elevated horror." After raking i...

Hocus Pocus Was A Critical And Box Office Failure Until Fairly Recently

October 26, 2019

As soon as the calendar page flips to October, fans of the 1993 movie Hocus Pocus, which starred the fabulous Bette Midler and equally fabulous ...

Audie Murphy: From The Most Decorated WWII Soldier To Movie Star

September 25, 2019

Audie Murphy with Marshall Thompson in "To Hell and Back" 1955. Source: (Photo by RDB/ullstein bild via Getty Images) It is not often that someone comes...

Fun Facts From the Filming of Gone With the Wind

June 2, 2019

The sweeping Southern epic, Gone With the Wind, was a blockbuster hit of 1939 and the winner of that year’s Academy Award. It was the highest-grossing film for a quart...

The Blair Witch Project: The First Viral Vlog?

May 18, 2019

Remember when The Blair Witch Project came out in 1999? People either loved it or hated it, but no matter which side of the fence you are on, you have to admit that this...

What Do You Know About St. Elmo’s Fire, Not the 1980s Brat Pack Film?

April 8, 2019

In 1985, a movie called St. Elmo’s Fire, starring brat-packers Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, and Judd Nels...

Science Fiction Movies: Then (1950s) And Now

March 10, 2019

There are many different tastes in movies with varying genres including drama, comedy, romance, action, and science fiction. Science Fiction movies started out very primit...

Bela Lugosi’s Dracula

October 30, 2018

Long before Twilight, The Lost Boys and Interview with a Vampire, there was the 1931 horror movie, Dracula. Based on Bram Stoker’s gothic novel by the same name and starring Bela Lugosi as the ...

60 Nostalgic Photos From Creepy Hollywood Moments

October 22, 2018

We've got something for every ghoul and boy in this assortment of 60 of the most bone-chilling images from pop culture, sure to whip you into a Halloween frenzy -- click ...

America’s Sweethearts Through the Decades

October 19, 2018

There is something very wholesome and special about an America’s sweetheart. She is a celebrity that mingles the right formula of girl-next-door, niceness, and a dash of se...

Tim Burton's Childhood Fascination with Fantasy & Horror

May 25, 2018

Tim Burton attends the European Premiere of 'Alice Through The Looking Glass' at Odeon Leicester Square on May 10, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Ben Pruchnie...

How Some Cool Silent Film Effects Were Made Before CGI

January 7, 2017

Harold Lloyd hanging off a clock in Safety Last! (1923) How it was done: When Safety Last was made, inserting a fake background with the use of rear projection or a ...