The big new Star Trek prequel hits theaters. We’ll talk with critics, trekkies, and Mr. Spock himself — Leonard Nimoy — about the return of Star Trek.

We’ll dive into a new biography of L. Frank Baum, who wrote “The Wizard of Oz.”

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

It’s been 70 years since “Gone With the Wind” hit the big screen. A new book says Scarlett O’Hara is still making waves.

We talk with the director of the new animated film “Coraline” about his thrilling and disturbing children’s tale.

We’ll talk with the director of “Notorious” about the life and death of rapper Biggie Smalls — and the state of hip hop.

Surprise hit “Slumdog Millionaire” swept the Golden Globes — and it’s a top Oscar contender. Now critics and moviegoers, from Cleveland to Mumbai, are talking about it.

We’re going with the critics to the holiday movies — “Australia,” “Revolutionary Road,” “Valkyrie,” “Cadillac Records,” and many more.

Acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh goes way upbeat in his latest film, “Happy-Go-Lucky.” We’ll ask him why.

Filmmaker Wayne Wang, director of “The Joy Luck Club,” on Chinese- American life now and his new film, “The Princess of Nebraska.”

Remembering Paul Newman. Actor and activist. Butch Cassidy. Cool Hand Luke. We look back on an American movie hero.

A new film shows off the soft side of Genghis Khan. We talk with the director of “Mongol.”

A conversation with director John Sayles about his life in film, his latest – “Honeydripper” – and what it takes to be an independent filmmaker today.

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 [...]