The movies of the 70s are known for their gritty realism, and William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971) paved the way for that trend by turning the classic cops-chasing-criminals movie genre on its head with innovation and style. Read More

The year 2000: The dawn of a new millennium, the height of the dot-com bubble, and just one year to go before we all found out if the fantastic future of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey would come to pass. Read More

It would be almost inconceivable that a romantic supernatural thriller about a woman reconnecting with her murdered lover through a psychic would go on to be the highest-grossing film of the year, but the 90s looked to be an optimistic new decade. Read More

With the tagline “the snobs against the slobs,” Caddyshack inadvertently defined a whole era of comedies. 1980 was the dawn of a new decade, but plenty of the issues of the 1970s, including crippling unemployment and inflation, dragged into the 80s. Read More

With nuclear proliferation, The Kent State shooting and Canada’s October Crisis in the news, 1970 couldn’t have felt further from the 60s spirit typified by San Francisco's Summer of Love. Read More