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Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker and resistance activist who became one of the most remarkable figures associated with…

For most of entertainment history, the relationship between audience and character has been defined by identification at a distance: readers…

Italy presents filmmakers with a problem that few other countries in the world can create: how do you photograph a…

Sherlock Holmes has spent more than a century being described as the supreme master of deduction, yet the phrase has…

The return of Tarzan to Africa in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novels is one of the most important turning points in…

When Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man opened in American theaters on May 3, 2002, it did more than give Marvel’s most popular…

What defines a Roland Joffé film? From the Oscar-winning world of The Killing Fields and the Palme d’Or-winning The Mission…

Gaming did something to entertainment that was considerably more consequential than placing a controller in the audience’s hands: it changed…

Spain has spent decades performing an extraordinary cinematic trick: becoming almost everywhere except itself. The most iconic filming locations in…

The Tarzan most audiences remember from movies is a creature of the jungle, but the Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs developed…