History Archives

A year of gone girls and genre films, plus we survived The Interview.

Uncertain times brought definitive masterpieces.

Between John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, and Alfred Hitchcock, 1959 has it all.

The studio system was collapsing, the French New Wave was on the rise, and Gregory Peck was cinema’s greatest dad.

Not just defined by its epic summer, 1982 was a year-long explosion of significant cinematic entertainment.

Ray Liotta playing a cokehead alone makes 1990 the best year for cinema.

Zombies, space sagas and age ratings: fifty years ago, cinema was changed forever.

From films that wouldn’t die easily to John Hughes’ darker side to lands that existed before time, there’s a strong case to be made for 1988.

James Bond has been introduced and reintroduced to audiences a lot over the years. That’s part of why the franchise is still going strong.