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Your browser does not support the audio element. The idea of a private White House movie theater is a rather wonderful thing, the kind of factoid that a child ...

The history of movie screenings in the White House did not begin auspiciously. On February 18, 1915, D.W. Griffith unspooled his three-hour “The Birth of a Nation” in the East Room of the White House ...

In Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, A House of Dynamite, the clock is ticking. The film’s fictional president of the United States has less than 20 minutes and very little information to decide whether or ...

In July 1942, a heavily escorted Allied convoy set out across the Arctic, carrying vital supplies to the Soviet Union. As German aircraft and submarines closed in, intelligence reports triggered a ...

The glitz and glam of Hollywood captures the attention of Americans starting from an early age. Beyond celebrities' Instagram Stories and red carpet poses, there are actors out there paying their dues ...

In writing about Richmond, Virginia’s Iron Blossom Festival last year, I noted that despite the city’s prominence and relative wealth of entertainment options, it had never really played host to a ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

As news broke of the church shooting in Minneapolis that killed two children and injured 17, I found myself thinking of “Mrs. Miniver,” the 1942 movie about a British housewife in rural England as her ...

Actor Gary Busey pleaded guilty to a sex crime charge Thursday in connection to a 2022 incident at a horror movie convention in New Jersey. Busey, 81, pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree ...