"Fight Club." "American Beauty." "The Matrix." 1999 was a blockbuster year for movies. But was it the best ever year in film? Want more from the show? You can get messages right from our hosts (and ...

In "Lisa the Vegetarian," a long-ago (1995!) episode of The Simpsons, the cartoon family's middle child bravely announces to father Homer that she's going to abstain from eating meat. This act of ...

“We’ve got a problem. George is trying to pound David, and David is choking George.” That was the call an executive at Warner Brothers received from the set of the 1999 film “Three Kings.” George ...

In our view, these eight comedies, dramas and more have attained classic status 25 years later. Let us know your own picks. By The New York Times On the 25th anniversary of what many argue is the ...

For 1999 week, our film writers carefully compiled and voted on a list of the 25 best films of the year. But even a list of 25 isn’t long enough to capture everyone’s favorite film from such a seminal ...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest installment of The Film Stage Show! Today, Michael Snydel, Bill Graham and I are joined by special guest Brian Raftery, author of Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 ...

The end of a year is time for stock-taking. A decade calls for even more. And a century or a millennium? The sheer potential for memory or fact overload can be mind-boggling. So, what can we say about ...

This summer, I dragged my mom to The Clairidge—a single screen movie theater in Montclair, New Jersey—for a matinee of Alexander Payne’s “Election.” The theater was featuring a series, titled “Clash ...

Trying to guess what the future will be like is almost always a losing proposition. Every correct prediction will be inevitably accompanied by many more wrong ones. Still, it’s fascinating to revisit ...