Where Oppenheimer displays total control of his craft of visual storytelling, the film fails the shortcomings of its script - ...

An accomplished historian and author of "The Impeachers," Wineapple takes her time setting up the story. In a leisurely ...

Eggers’ recreation of 19th-century Europe allows Nosferatu to serve as a reclamation of history, where women are at the ...

Eggers’ recreation of 19th-century Europe allows Nosferatu to serve as a reclamation of history, where women are at the forefront, while also enabling the director to take contemporary conversations ...

In the 1936 screwball comedy mystery The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Dr. Lawrence Bradford (William Powell) asks his ex-wife, the rich mystery writer Paula (Jean Arthur), “What is a cocktail dress?” She replies ...

The Bentley was parked and idling at the curb. As always, my driver Emil Vaka stood by the open rear door, his own uniform of ancient Habsburg design garlanded with regal epaulets. I already pictured ...

About 45 minutes into A Complete Unknown, Joan Baez tells Bob Dylan he’s “kind of an asshole.” As the scene plays, I suspect most viewers will agree because director James Mangold avoids the ...

Capitol Hell is certainly a book that challenges preconceived notions. Do Republicans with their moral grandstanding and fear mongering even have a sense of humor? In this debut novel, they try. Two ...

It's no secret that as travelers become increasingly conscious of their environmental impact, destinations have scrambled to burnish their eco-credentials. But here's something you might not know: ...

Readers are unlikely to come upon another book on this topic that so thoroughly explores its checkered past and describes in such detail the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that ushered in what we now ...

March 15 marked the 100th anniversary of the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. The milestone has attracted little notice. It is the opinion of most historians that Nicholas was a failure: ...