In 1963, Italian horror director Mario Bava made his last black and white film. The Girl Who Knew Too Much heralded the arrival of a film genre that would have a prominent place in cinema until the mid-1970s and is still popula...

I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger fan of Ray Harryhausen than yours truly. As a kid, I was captivated by the characters and creatures he brought to life through stop-motion animation, and it helped to cement my lif...

Themes of life, death, disease, and immortality are all woven together in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain, a very ambitious film that delivers three separate story lines spanning a thousand years. One takes place 500 years ago,...