It’s been 30 years since the U.S. Film Festival in Park City, Utah, changed its name to the Sundance Film Festival....

Whither the Western? As a literary genre, the Western emerged around the same time film technology came of age. In...

One of my all-time favorite plays is Copenhagen by Michael Frayn. The 1998 Tony Award winner tries to untangle the...

There’s no denying that 2020 was an unprecedented year, so I’m doing something unprecedented: combining film and TV...

“The World Ends Tomorrow and YOU MAY DIE!” So begins SubGenius Pamphlet #1, the mysterious missive that launched J.R....

Hey, did you hear the one about the starlet who was so stupid she came to Hollywood and slept with the writer? As you...

Hi, my name’s Chris, and I’m an authentic hillbilly. I grew up on a farm in the Appalachian foothills of Tennessee. I...

In 1831, a French magistrate named Alexis de Tocqueville conned his government, known as the July Monarchy, into...

From the beginning, America has been a utopian project. The Founders had come of age in an era that highlighted the...

America is the great melting pot. Immigrants from all over the world come here to get their chance at a new life in...