Film
Classic, offbeat and influential films, from silent-era sci-fi to noir, and the stories of how they were made.
The Art of the Stalk: Looking Back at John Carpenter’s Halloween
A $300,000 independent film, a camera that prowled, a piano tune in an odd rhythm and a phrase coined by a professor: how John Carpenter's Halloween set the pattern for the slasher.
How 2001: A Space Odyssey Predicted the AI Assistant (and Got the Scary Part Right)
HAL 9000 talked to astronauts in plain English in 1968 — decades before Siri. The unsettling part wasn't the voice.
5 Public-Domain Sci-Fi and Horror Films You Can Legally Watch Tonight
No subscriptions, no paywalls, no gray-area streaming sites — these classics are free because their copyright already ran out.
Spotlight: Seven Samurai (1954)
Akira Kurosawa's three-and-a-half-hour epic became the template for basically every "team assembles for one last job" movie made since.
Spotlight: Metropolis (1927)
Every dystopian sci-fi skyline owes something to a German silent film that was nearly lost forever.
Spotlight: The Third Man (1949)
A zither, a sewer chase, and the best entrance in film noir — Carol Reed's postwar Vienna thriller still holds up completely.
5 Practical Movie Effects Tricks That Still Hold Up
Long before CGI, filmmakers solved impossible shots with forced perspective, models, and one very uncooperative mechanical shark.