MOVIES

Tom Cruise was the comedic genius who helped come up with Les Grossman.

Billy Wilder’s Oscar-winning film cut against the cultural grain so sharply that it’s a miracle it got made at all.

The movie that turned Julia Roberts into a star—and popularized the "hooker with a heart of gold" trope—is turning 30 in 2020.

You remember Mel Gibson’s award-winning performance as William Wallace, but these nuggets about the creation of Braveheart may enrich your repeat viewings.

All of Hollywood's most important milestones, from the first sound film to the first flushing toilet shown on screen.

At least one snake was harmed while making this film. And Kevin Costner was told he was playing one.

With his newfound success following the back-to-back smash hits of 'Jaws' in 1975 and 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' in 1977, director Steven Spielberg wanted to tell a smaller, more personal story for his next film: 'E.T.'

No scene in late 1980s cinema is more iconic than Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) holding a boombox over his head with the song “In Your Eyes” blasting in an attempt to win his girlfriend back.

You can handle the truth.

The public’s pet-buying decisions are easily swayed.

December 28 marks the birth of modern moviegoing as we know it, as it was on this day in 1895 that Auguste and Louis Lumière mounted the world’s first commercial movie screening at Paris’s Grand Café.