Among many other adventurous explorations of the studio’s vast catalogue, the manufacture-on-demand Warner Archive Collection has been particularly active in making available on DVD so-called ...

A MoMA series puts the spotlight on a Hollywood era when actresses broke free of stereotypes that would later dominate movies for decades. By Beatrice Loayza In that all-too-brief period in Hollywood ...

The one man most responsible for popularizing “Pre-code” movies — those racy early talkies turned out by Hollywood before the Production Code Authority cracked down, largely at the behest of the ...

"That was the film that brought Mae West to the movies in a big way," said William Patrick Day, a professor of cinema studies and English at Oberlin College. "She had been a vaudeville and Broadway ...

The talkies came, the stock market crashed, and Hollywood ran a race against hysteria. For those who like their movies short, snappy, and sensational, not to mention brazenly unencumbered by the ...

Complicated Women: Documentary. Narrated by Jane Fonda. 5 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on Turner Classic Movies. Imagine what today's Hollywood actresses would give for a part as juicy as Frances Dee's in ...

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

Over a decade ago, Bleeding Cool ran a "Terrible 25" list of great Pre-Code Horror comics on Halloween. Such lists are fairly common around the end of October every year, but as I said back in 2010, ...