History is riddled with two alternating phases: the times when revolutions take place and the times that freewheel across the landscapes created by those revolutions. The 1950s fall into the first ...

1950 was a quiet but decisive turning point in film history. The optimism of the postwar years was giving way to cynicism, introspection, and moral ambiguity. At the same time, filmmakers outside ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...