The 1940s were a decade that saw the rise of the Western movie genre, led by names like John Wayne and John Ford, who brought the American frontier and the Wild West to life on the big screen. The ...

What does it take for a movie to gross over $2 billion? A lot of butts in seats, of course. And that happens with global anticipation, great reviews, and a story people want to watch over and over ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

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 ...

Leon Trotsky is a name you probably recognize. He was a man that dedicated his life to the Communist revolution, leading the ...

“Me love you long time,” a Vietnamese sex worker tells the U.S. troops, swiveling her hips as she hawks her services. “You party?” The first female character in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam War classic ...

It was 1940. War raged across Asia and Europe. America had not yet joined the war, but the country was beginning to prepare for the worst. Franklin D. Roosevelt sat in the White House, speaking to his ...

It had been a long buyer’s market for the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1940. Its 750 inductees first arrived at “the Yard” in 1936 following 16 years of peacetime budget cuts; with Congress in an ...