In his column “How About Now,” Mason Barrett ’28 reviews classic films through a modern lens. This review contains spoilers. When I look back on the history of cinema, I find that many films continue ...

If you don’t object to the occasional metaphor coming from the barrel of a gun, you’ll probably find Sam Mendes’s quirky period gangster movie Road to Perdition intellectually stimulating, emotionally ...

What you first need to know about Preston Sturges is that he claims to have invented "kiss-proof" lipstick. Is that information truly relevant? Probably not, but it's the sort of daffiness you'd ...

MUCH ADO ABOUT ME (380 pp.)—Fred Allen—Atlantic-Little, Brown ($5). If the people in Poland are called Poles, why aren’t the people in Holland called Holes? This was the first joke ever told by Fred ...

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to ...