Watch the trailer for a Tom Cruise movie and you'll notice something curious. Before the story is established, before the villain has uttered a word, before the title even appears on screen, the marketing has already made its sales pitch.

Tom Cruise is sprinting across a rooftop.

Uwe Boll's controversial thriller may be crude, angry and deeply uncomfortable. That doesn't mean it has nothing worth saying.

Once the industry's biggest gamble has become its safest bet.

Featuring stories from Eric Shanower, Troy Riser, Michael Tierney, and seventeen other masters of the form, FANTASTIC VOYAGES is all about doors -- doo

There was a time when the answer was simple.

An Xbox was a box.

There was a time when a Disney remake arrived with the built-in advantage of nostalgia. *Cinderella*, *The Jungle Book*, and *Beauty and the Beast* returned to stories that had already spent decades becoming part of the culture.

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

For decades, Batman has been unique among superheroes because Gotham City has always felt like a real place under extraordinary pressure. It has corrupt politicians, organized crime, Arkham escapees, and costumed vigilantes, but beneath the capes and cowls lies a functioning American city. Elections matter.

"Did you see it last night?"

For a generation of Americans, that may have been the most powerful sentence in entertainment.

It wasn't merely a question. It was an invitation into a conversation that millions of people were already having.

Every few years Hollywood saddles up again. A new western arrives. A frontier drama climbs the streaming charts. Families rediscover Little House on the Prairie.

There are weddings, there are celebrity weddings, and then there are cultural events dressed up as weddings.

There was a time when you didn't ask your friends whether they'd heard of the summer's biggest movie. You asked whether they'd seen it yet. And if they had, chances were they'd already bought another ticket to see it again.

That wasn't marketing hype. It was simply how summer movies worked.

There are blockbuster movies, and then there are events. Some films become so ingrained in popular culture that it's almost impossible to separate the movie from the moment in which it was released.