It's every young filmmakers dream to get a small loan from a family member, max out a credit card or two, and produce a masterpiece that resonates with audiences and makes a ton of money. It's not ...

Hollywood has been re-inventing itself for more 100 years. Change is part of the culture. But a pocket-sized "Sunset ...

At the box office, numbers are everything. However, when it comes to a movie budget, sometimes numbers aren’t everything. In fact, there are so many small-budget movies that have gone on to make huge ...

I saw Jaws with my father in the summer of 1975, the year it came out. When we walked out of the Oaks movie theater in Berkeley, California, we were giddy, punch-drunk. It’s a perfect movie—a big, ...

Janelle has an extensive career as a writer, with over a decade of freelance experience, especially when it comes to pop culture. Although her first love was music, she also enjoys digging into ...

He works in mysterious ways.

I’m not sure how many movies we’ve had about gambling addicts and their descents into violence, squalor, and ruination at this point, but it sure is a lot. Sometimes it’s played for laughs if the ...

The law's reach never stretched this far.