Eleanor the Great” is only 98 minutes, but feels longer. Scenes could have been tightened. Anguished dialogue might have been ...

On one of these archipelagoes, a literary scholar named Thomas Metcalf searches through historical archives for a copy of a legendary poem, composed by a 20th-century poet, Francis Blundy, honoring ...

Long before the launch of The European Correspondent, there were just two friends, one in Amsterdam, one in Basel, swapping ...

Confession time. What's the worst thing you've ever done on vacation? Austin Rulfs says he's still embarrassed about his recent visit to a Balinese temple. He was wearing a T-shirt and tattered shorts ...

The influx of rock music and counterculture in the 1960s signaled a new era for music journalism, and Rolling Stone became the venue for documenting this revolution. As counterculture evolved in San ...

There’s something queer about language. Not just in the sense of being descriptive. In fact, the idea that language is supposed to simply describe, to point at something fixed and say “this is what ...

“Welcome to Jurassic Park.” The four words that usher in a new generation of visual filmmaking. In that moment, when Richard Attenborough’s character welcomes the cast, and consequently, the viewer, ...

I am not the first, nor will I be the last, to point out Hollywood’s current exhaustive unoriginality. However, the overuse of recognizable brands has taken such a prominent role in entertainment that ...

Charlie Chaplin made audiences laugh, but he also made us feel. His films often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line between sentiment and sentimentality.” ...

Disney’s multi-billion-dollar empire rests largely in the hands of 11 fairytale princesses. We all know their stories. We all have a favorite. For nearly eight decades, these young royals have ...

Editor’s Note: “The Central Park Five” a new film by Ken Burns, tells the true story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York ...

Hollywood is the center of the entertainment universe. The majority of the world’s most popular television, film, and music is created in one city in California, but the content produced is enjoyed ...