One of the fun parts of a movie critic’s job is the opportunity to rediscover a writer, director, character actor or what have you who has been mostly ignored in the broad sweep of film history.

Maybe you first saw the movies on daytime television, panned-and-scanned for the small screen and interrupted by local commercials. Maybe you never even noticed the director’s credit. But they all had ...

If the only filmmaking Sturges you’ve heard of is Preston, the American Cinematheque is about to widen your horizons by presenting “The Magnificent John Sturges” on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the ...

It all begins with the burgeoning city of Denver facing the worst threat of its existence - becoming bone dry in 10 days in the approaching winter of 1867. This awesome situation paves the way for one ...

Director John Sturges, who specialized in melding a social consciousness to such rugged, nearly all-male action films as ”The Magnificent Seven” and ”Bad Day at Black Rock,” has died at the age of 82.

The Western genre is one of the oldest and cherished film genres to ever enter the landscape of cinema and successfully ...