Roman Polanski, in jail in Zurich for sex with a 13-year-old 32 years ago. Geraldine Ferraro and Bernard-Henri Levy debate the case.

Fred Astaire danced his way into American legend—the original dancing superstar. We’ll look at the man behind the top hat and tails.

Alfred Hitchcock was for years the master of movie suspense. But fifty years ago — May, 1958 — he brought out a film so weird that filmgoers didn’t know what to make of it.
It was called “Vertigo.” It had Jimmy Stewart as a San Francisco detective afraid of heights, on the trail of icy blond [...]

In 1967, revolution was in the air. And not just on college campuses. Hollywood, too, was at the threshold of a generational rebellion.
The year’s Oscar nominees told the story: So long to the super-sanitized, big-studio moviemaking machines. Hello to the new rough-and-tumble — sex, violence, and rock-n-roll. Out with the “Sound of Music” clones. In [...]

It’s the season of big releases and Oscar angling, at the end of a wild, up and down year for movies — from sweeping epics of war won and lost, to comic close-ups on pregnancy, young love, and growing up.
There were the perennial Hollywood blockbusters — from “Ratatouille” to “Spiderman III” to yet another “Pirates [...]

It sounds like a culture-war set piece: Hollywood rolls out a religious-themed Christmas blockbuster and conservative believers go ballistic. That was the story this weekend with the release of “The Golden Compass.”
Based on the wildly popular fantasy novels by British author Philip Pullman, a famously outspoken atheist, the film casts God and the Church as [...]

The “Daily Show” may be going down, and Leno and Letterman and “Desperate Housewives” and “Heroes” and a whole lot of movies. The writers behind most of American television and movies are talking strike.
It’s been almost twenty years since a Hollywood writers’ strike. In 1988 it was about their piece of the video rental pie. [...]