When Billy Wilder released Sunset Boulevard , the popular critical reaction was that it was going to kill the movie business, for how could anyone stand to watch the products of the dream factory after learning what was behind the magic?
Our top picks for the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival include Elsinore , Wild Horse Nine , and Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney.
Ranking the ten best Doris Day movies in the latest episode of The Classics Shelf, from Caprice to Pillow Talk with Rock Hudson.
In the latest edition of The Classics Shelf, Bil Antoniou spotlights world cinema by picking the best non-American films of the 1950s.
The best films of 2026 so far include 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Obsession, Backrooms, Disclosure Day, The Furious, Nuisance Bear, Late Shift , and more!
In a decade that included formative works by the Maysles, Frederick Wiseman, Peter Watkins, and other filmmakers, Bil Antoniou picks the top ten documentaries of the 1960s.
Talk about going out on a high note! Bil Antoniou picks the top ten "final films" in the latest edition of The Classics Shelf with films like The Dead and Red among memorable swan songs.
What are the worst songs to win the Oscar for Best Original Song? Bil Antoniou picks 10 flat notes in the history of the Academy Awards.
The Classics Shelf: Ranking the ten best Golden Bear winners in the storied history of the Berlin Film Festival, including La Notte, Head-On, and The Wages of Fear .
For a movie that has campaigned hard and made it to the final group of nominees, a Best Picture loss is a disappointment, but winning at least one category throughout the night helps soothe the pain. Going home completely empty-handed, however, has to be a much bigger sorrow.
Ranking the 10 best films in Willem Dafoe's filmography, including The Florida Project, Platoon, The Lighthouse, and The English Patient .
The best films of 2025 include One Battle After Another, Sinners, Sirat, Come See Me in the Good Light, BLKNWS, Kokuho, and more!
If you're watching Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story and have a hankering for more creepers, check into the Bates Motel and read the Classics Shelf series on Anthony Perkins, including this final entry on the actor's later years.
In part 4 of The Classics Shelf's ongoing series about Anthony Perkins, Bil Antoniou looks at the actor in the 1970s with appearances in films like Murder on the Orient Express.
Part three in The Classic Shelf's ongoing series about the career of Anthony Perkins visits his films of the 1960s, aka the Psycho years.
