In the modern era, more people are watching films at home. That makes this a great time to catch up on essential cinema classics in your home theater, with timeless, esteemed films readily available ...

Irving Gertz, a film and television composer who contributed music to 1950s science-fiction films such as “It Came From Outer Space” and “The Incredible Shrinking Man” and to 1960s TV series such as ...

Stephanie Weber is a writer and comedian who has bylines in Reductress, The AV Club, Mental Floss, Slate, Mr. Skin, and more. She has an MFA in dramatic writing from SCAD. She wrote and directed the ...

The hokey style of 1950s educational films makes them richly mockable today. But the real kicker is that they were preemptively mocked decades before they even peaked. Welcome to Retro Week, where ...