Watch 60 great Noir films directed by Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. All free.

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The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it started with style--with a dramatized adaptation of Brave New World, narrated by A...

Let's rewind the videotape to November 7, 1981. That's when Beat writer William S. Burroughs made his first appearance on American national television. Appropriately, it was on the irreverent, late-ni...

Humanity has few fascinations as enduring as that with apocalypse. We've been telling ourselves stories of civilization's destruction as long as we've had civilization to destroy.

George Orwell as a kind of prophet of the ills of corporatism, socialism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism — any powerful -ism, essentially, in which we can find nasty, freedom-destroying implication...

Rumor has it that prominent placement in a science-fiction movie can put a kind of 'curse' on a brand: witness the fates, for instance, of Atari, Bell, and Pan American World Airways, all of which wen...

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