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From “On Golden Pond” to “12 Angry Men,” Stacker compiled a list of the 50 best Henry Fonda movies, using data from IMDb.

Today in History

Today is Wednesday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2022. There are 283 days left in the year.

Like many of us, Petsos has seen a lot of movies. But unlike many other film enthusiasts turned filmmakers, he hasn’t figured out anything useful to do with his influences.

Fifty years ago, when The Cowboys opened at theaters and drive-ins everywhere. We're looking back at the stirring John Wayne classic with...

Beatty's 'iffy project about a communist who dies in the end' sent budgets spiralling and Jack Nicholson mad. Then he cast Diane Keaton…

Some of the most memorable roles in Western cinema history were portrayed by Bruce Dern during his long and storied career.

Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye” (1973) attacks film noir with three of his most cherished tools: Whimsy, spontaneity and narrative perversity. He is always the most youthful of directors, and here he gives us the youngest of Philip Marlowes, the private eye as a Hardy boy. Marlowe hides in the bushes, pokes his nose up against a window, complains like a spoiled child, and runs after a car driven by the sexy heroine, crying out “Mrs. Wade! Mrs. Wade!” As a counterweight, the movie co...

Conceived, but given the quality of recent disaster flicks, parody is redundant. The challenge of topping the insane improbability of Hollywood’s less pretentious fare is too great for any filmmaker, and Frawley and his writers have decided not to try. They’ve settled, instead, on very safe conventions: Sally Kellerman as an unhappy spouse who falls in love with her husband only when their divorce is finalized, Ruth Gordon as a foulmouthed old lady on the lam, Rene Auberjonois as an agnosti...

Unstreamable is a weekly column that finds films and TV shows you can't watch on major streaming services in the United States.* THE ROSEUSA, 1979, 125 min, Dir. Mark Rydell Bette Midler's breakout performance actually happened in NYC's gay bathhouses sometime in the early 1970s (earning her the nickname "Bathhouse Betty"), but I guess it officially happened in her film debut, The Rose, when she played Janis Joplin a "self-destructive rock star in the late...