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The Golden Compass (2007). Laurie Sparham © 2007 New Line Cinema As the old adage goes, you have to speculate to accumulate. But as several Hollywood executives have discovered—often at great professional cost—is that speculation can also lead to multi-million dollar losses, job cuts, and the ignominy of becoming a laughingstock across Tinseltown. As 15 box office turkeys showed us, sometimes all it takes is one major flop to send a studio down the dreaded path of bankruptcy. 1. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) Yes, it’s hard to believe. But Frank Capra's five-time Oscar-nominated pictu...

The L’amour scrawl is instantly recognisable as the Australian director’s signature, featuring in movies and on stage. But where did it come from?

The Best (Older) Streaming Movies of 2020 2020 is anything but a typical year. This year, I’m on pace for over 325 movies — but only about a quarter of those titles will be 2020 releases. Even fewer actually played in a theater, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns. My traditional top ten list is still coming — even under these conditions, there are more than enough contenders — but because 2020 has been such an unconventional clusterf—, and because so many of the things we have all watched this year were older movies on Netflix, HBO Max, Peacock, D...

2020 has been a tough year for the arts with cinemas and theatres closed and festivals and gigs cancelled. Despite this there has been an outpouring of creativity much of it inspired by the lockdown and Black Lives Matter. Socialist Review asked 10 of our readers and contributors to pick the culture they have most enjoyed under quarantine. Schitt’s Creek - Netfliix There’s nothing ground breaking about the central story line of Canadian comedy Schitt’s Creek (rags to riches in reverse), but one aspect of the approach is certainly refreshing. The show doesn’t get everything right; th...

Francis Ford Coppola Is Still Going for Broke Vulture.com 12/11/2020 Bilge Ebiri © Katy Grannan for New York Magazine “I’ve always been doing weird, stupid things and following my heart. It made no sense to handle my career the way I did, but I wouldn’t do it another way.” Katy Grannan for New York Magazine Francis Ford Coppola is trolling me about our resemblance. “This guy looks like I did thirty years ago,” he says when my bearded face appears for the first of our Zoom calls. (He’ll reprise this theme at the end of our conversation.) Coppola, 81, might be...