4 Fridays, 2/6/2026 – 2/27/2026 Horror, as a genre, has often been dismissed as low-brow, inexpensive, or sensationalist fare. But in spite of, or perhaps because of, this dismissal, the […]

The first commercial film to use sound, 1927’s The Jazz Singer, was in a sense a musical. Why did movies sing almost before they could talk, and what have movie […]

Lon Chaney’s The Phantom of the Opera just turned 100. This Halloween, we’ll look back at how Universal turned a couple of Victorian novels into a genre juggernaut and revisit […]