I don’t know about you, but my brain is short-circuiting a bit from the news today, so I was glad to run across this video ...

I posted about the 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai coming out in theaters; here’s the trailer ...

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their ...

Director Denis Villeneuve steps into the Criterion Closet to choose and talk about a few of his favorite films, including ...

I don’t know about you, but my brain is short-circuiting a bit from the news today, so I was glad to run across this video of Benedict Cumberbatch reading Ross Beeley’s letter published by McSweeney’s ...

80 years ago today, the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. An estimated 1.1 million people (Jews, Poles, ...

Oh this is just delightful: for the opening of his documentary film on the history of music on SNL he co-directed with Oz ...

In June 1971, the BBC aired a segment on a “mysterious” and “niche” sports imported from America called ...

In later life, Marples was elevated to the peerage before fleeing to Monaco at very short notice to avoid prosecution for tax fraud. Once a runner, always a runner. (thx, dunstan) When you buy through ...

I finished the last half of Shōgun, James Clavell’s 1200-page 1975 historical novel, on my recent vacation, riveted the enti ...

The USPS has announced that they will be issuing stamps based on the children’s classic Goodnight Moon, written by Margare ...

So, a fan put them up on YouTube for X-Files fans to enjoy. The Cold Cases audio drama is 6 episodes and about 4 hours long; ...