These movies never actually got made, but some of them came close. Here are several of the most hyped sci-fi films that never ...

This epic, originally two four-hour films telling four stories over 2500 years of human history, made the biggest unadjusted ...

A reporter pieces together the extravagant and mysterious life of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane in the feature directing debut of 26-year-old wunderkind Orson ... was Welles’s grasp of the ...

an exuberant use of camera placement and movement and inventive lighting” (Roger Ebert); and even “his most touching film” (Wesley Morris). 1962, 118 minutes, black and white, 35mm | Written by Orson ...

“Sixteen Candles was his directorial debut,” she mentioned. “I had done a few movies … I had actually had more experience but I was still only 15 years old so I didn’t have a lot of life ...

Would that the Orson Krennics of our own world could share the experience. Jim Vorel is Paste’s Movies editor and resident genre geek. You can follow him on Twitter or on Bluesky for more film ...

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Longtime movie critic Mick LaSalle also answers questions about who invented the Chronicle’s Little Man rating system and his favorite film composers. Orson Welles (1915-1985) crafted several historic ...

A boy who lives at a country club where his father works decides to make some extra money by selling composted horse manure as fertilizer and has his three sisters two of which are older join him ...

Ghostbusters topped the box office in 1984, but it’s not on our list of must-see movies of 1984 just because of its popularity. The supernatural comedy is iconic regardless of genre or decade. Bill ...

But he's probably best remembered as Charlie Moran in the 1984 movie The Pope of Greenwich Village. He plays the lead role of a New York waiter in what one viewer described to be "Mickey Rourke at ...