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A short account of the blacklisting of dozens of writers and actors from the movie industry in Hollywood amidst the anti-communist hysteria of the late 1940s and 1950s.

Steven Spielberg’s deliriously entertaining throwback remains a pure pleasure, a film drawn from forgotten serials and comics and brought brilliantly to life

How Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford and more made one of the greatest adventure movies of all time – as told to Empire magazine.

From the NS archive: Rudyard Kipling 25 January 1936: The writer of empire in changing times. In this piece, written a week after the death of Rudyard Kipling, Rebecca West, one of the magazine’s most incisive critics, took a hard look at the great fabulist and poet’s career. “Some of his work was gold; and the rest was faery gold,” she writes. Kim was a great work but by no means all his novels succeeded: “… all his life long Kipling was a better poet than he was a prose writer, t...

Corbella: How Rudyard Kipling wrote his way into lore of Canadian engineers Licia Corbella © Provided by Calgary Herald Dan Levert, professional engineer and author of On Cold Iron poses for a photo with a framed copy of the Last Saturday — May 1, 2021 — my husband Stephen and I watched a uniquely Canadian ceremony online, written by famed author Rudyard Kipling nearly one century ago, called the Ri...

Article content Last Saturday — May 1, 2021 — my husband Stephen and I watched a uniquely Canadian ceremony online, written by famed author Rudyard Kipling nearly one century ago, called the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer. Our 23-year-old son, Tyrone — who turns 24 tomorrow — had just completed his final assignment the previous day in electrical engineering at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, a laudable feat in itself made all the more impressive since he did s...

Rochester library presents Nonfiction Challenge for adults Stephanie Piro This column marks our 50th in Foster’s. In that time we have shared our news during the shutdown and beyond, working to make the library as accessible as possible to our patrons. We have had Outdoor Story Times, a Pumpkin Decorating contest, a drive-up Ice Cream Cart and a Drive-up Santa visit. We have had great success with RPL-To-Go, our pick-up service and our downloadable resources. We are happy that we have been ab...

The hosts of TCM discuss the problematic aspects of classic movies like Gone with the Wind, Psycho, and My Fair Lady in the new weekly series.

Posted on Thursday, March 4th, 2021 by Ethan Anderton As society has progressed over time, cultural touchstones from the past have become outdated and in some cases problematic. That can make revisiting classic films a little troublesome. How can we revisit, revere and respect classic movies that have such blatantly racist characters and outdated depictions of our culture? Turner Classic Movies may have the answer. The cable network known for keeping the love for classic films alive is kickin...

TCM is launching a new series called Reframed: Classic Films in the Rearview Mirror to look at troubling and problematic aspects of 18 old Hollywood movies such as Psycho and My Fair Lady