Directed by J. C. Chandor. 2014. Pity the popular director. You might find your heart too hard to make room for Steven Spielberg, Christop...

Directed by Michael Curtiz. 1954. Today, the Eve of Christmas, is the anniversary of the birth of cinema's perhaps most overlooked g...

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Directed by Christopher Nolan. 2014. *spoiler alert* Christopher Nolan may be Hollywood's golden boy right now, but it still took ...

Inset of Mercury exhorting Aeneas Tiepolo, 1757 Of all the wisdom in antiquity which we find in science and philosophy, of all the tre...

The possibility of an Ebola outbreak on a ship is, among other things, nature's way of reminding us that it can perfect anything which ...