The Greatest Robin Hood Movie. Freeline Media critic Milan Paurich reflects on a 1970s films about a famous character.

But outside of being reminded of how well the Phantasmagoria troop understands the allure of horror, the nostalgic visit back ...

A Nic Cage Halloween. Freeline Media critic Mike Fried has his thoughts on horror movies - featuring Nic Cage! Read on!

A Pleasure to Read. English professor Roger Bakes shares his thoughts on Freeline Media's new book, A Distant Plague ...

The Tragedy of Red Dragon: How Manhunter found the movie inside the Nightmare.

There’s a familiar honorific in American letters: “The Great American Novel.” It’s been attached, with varying degrees of seriousness and exhaustion, to Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ...

This ten-part personal essay on iconic director Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie was part of Maddy’s Third Master of Suspense Blogathon. Click here for the site in general, which is called Classic Film and ...

The first ever summer blockbuster movie, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975), had its basis in the Peter Benchley bestselling novel of the same name, published a year earlier. It was almost as much a ...

And this is the problem for Larry Donner. He has written a book. But his ex-wife stole it from him and when she publishes it, it becomes a bestseller. He wants to kill her, figuratively. So he is ...

It’s such a glorious decade. Between cheesy entertainment of the highest order to bonafide classics, the 1950s was the last real decade of “‘”Old Hollywood,” but also a decade when upstarts like ...

Perhaps the highest compliment I can give to Canyon Passage is that it may be the most fascinating western to come from the Classical Hollywood era. Adapted from a 1945 Saturday Evening Post novelette ...

The Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Movie Ever Made. While some movies are instantly recognized as “classics,” others earn their pantheon status through critics, historians and institutions who have ...