In honor of our annual animation program and the 3D cartoons that will run at the Wexner Center before the show, we spend April looking...

The experience of being in an audience watching an abysmal comedy is uniquely breath-taking. For the uninitiated, it can also be...

We celebrate Women's History Month with four films featuring strong female protagonists. RODNEY BOWCOCK:  Miss Pinkerton (1932) tells the...

We celebrate Women's History Month with four films featuring strong female protagonists. RODNEY BOWCOCK: Class wars exist today,...

We celebrate Women's History Month with four films featuring strong female protagonists. RODNEY BOWCOCK: This is the story of Hannah Hoyt...

We celebrate Women's History Month with four films featuring strong female protagonists. SAMANTHA GLASSER: Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton)...

Here are two reviews of short films from 1938, both about filmmaking and the illusory nature of the movies. One might be more...

In the throes of winter, we lean closer to the hearth with this month's fire theme. RODNEY BOWCOCK: The poster bills this as a...

In the throes of winter, we lean closer to the hearth with this month's fire theme. RODNEY BOWCOCK: William S. Hart was a near annual...

In the throes of winter, we lean closer to the hearth with this month's fire theme. RODNEY BOWCOCK: There’s just something about an...

While taking a walk the other morning, I had the urge to stop and photograph the building at 782 East McMillan Street in the heart of the...

W.C. Fields may not have liked them, but who else doesn't like a good animal movie? This month we watch movies starring a variety of...

W.C. Fields may not have liked them, but who else doesn't like a good animal movie? This month we watch movies starring a variety of...

W.C. Fields may not have liked them, but who else doesn't like a good animal movie? This month we watch movies starring a variety of...

As a continuation of last month’s post, I’m looking at two B Westerns from Columbia’s 1940 output. I’m pitting Wild Bill Elliott against...

It's time for holly berries, cinnamon, listening to Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Elvis, and snuggling up under a thick blanket to...

It's time for holly berries, cinnamon, listening to Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Elvis, and snuggling up under a thick blanket to...

It's time for holly berries, cinnamon, listening to Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Elvis, and snuggling up under a thick blanket to...

It's time for holly berries, cinnamon, listening to Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Elvis, and snuggling up under a thick blanket to...

I present to you a sample study of Columbia’s B movies released in 1940: an onslaught of one-hour wonders. Let’s dive right in— Wait,...