The year 1939 alone — considered perhaps the best in cinematic history — provides an exhaustive list of “essential” movies, although the 1930s and ’40s offer a target-rich environment of titles whose ...

Cinema as it is known today had its origins within the films that were made in the 1930s. Although the prior decade had seemed tremendous leaps forwards in the types of formal choices that filmmakers ...

Disney has been producing feature-length animated movies since the 1930s, and the studio has gone through some ups and downs over the years. Although the best animated Disney movies are beloved by ...

The 1930s was a pinnacle decade during Hollywood's Golden Age, when crucial classics were released, such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night, and Jezebel—the decade essentially ...

For those readers who have not yet qualified as senior citizens, did you know that the very early movies had no sound? Until 1927, when Al Jolson made “The Jazz Singer,” movies were silent with ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...