Halloween night is a mission, and you are in command. The candy is secured. The costumes are on. Now comes the hard part: picking a movie that thrills your kids without sending anyone to bed with the lights on...
The best black and white Christmas movies are It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and The Shop Around the Corner (1940). All three are in the Library of Congress National Film Registry...
Every kid who owned a comic book had a character they’d defend on the playground. The arguments were rarely about who’d win a fight; they were about who mattered more, which is a harder question...
The best kung fu movies of the 70s start with Enter the Dragon (1973), the Bruce Lee film that carried the genre around the world. Right behind it are The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and Drunken Master, both from 1978. The...
Ten seasons, 236 episodes, one improbably spacious apartment—the best Friends episodes face a lot of excellent competition. NBC aired the pilot on September 22, 1994, and signed off on May 6, 2004. Over those years, the...
Some show endings resolve the argument. Most of the ones people actually remember don’t — they detonate it, walk away, and leave the internet to sort through the wreckage for the next decade and a half (the...
Forget what you think you know about the 1970s. You picture gas lines. You picture disco. You picture engines choked by emissions rules. Look again. Underneath the smog and the sticker shock, something feral still...
Labor Day weekend is, for most of us, the last real excuse of the year to do absolutely nothing productive on purpose, and there is no better way to burn three unstructured days than by queueing up a run of movies that...
