Katie is home early again today after a grueling two-plus hour trip to the dentist. While convalescing, she's been reading The Marx Bro...

One of two Marx Brothers movies preserved in the National Film Registry (the other is A Night At the Opera ) and the last to include Zeppo, ...

[To read Part One, click here . To read Part Two, click here .] III. Tabloid Cinema At Its Best Scarface premiered in New Orleans, Louisia...

[To read Part One of this essay, click here .] II. From Screenplay To Screen: Battling The Censors "Congress shall make no law respecti...

Of the seemingly endless series of movies Hollywood produced during Prohibition to cash in on the public's obsession with gangsters, thr...

If choosing the best screenplay of the year were simply a question of counting up the quotable lines, Animal Crackers would be the hands-do...

Now this is how you adapt a classic novel for the big screen. Being a (failed) writer myself, it has often struck me how few great movies h...