Will interactive films be this century’s defining art form?

As editor-in-chief of Variety, Peter Bart was one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry. This piece got him suspended.

Jonathan Kos-Read’s long, strange trip to movie stardom.

“In this scene, set at a government dacha, they are joined by their American counterparts at the State Department for a daylong picnic that grows increasingly informal, involving drinks, flirtation, a guitar jam and (spoiler) contact between two spies. At times in my new job, I feel like a spy myself, and one with a shaky cover. I don’t have a good answer for how I got here.”

The Hollywood backroom machinations that got the biopic to movie screens.

Talking to Lee Daniels about Empire, Hollywood, and survival.

“Over the years, it’s been hard to get male movie stars to be in a movie if a woman’s the lead, where a great, great movie star, a woman, will be in a movie where the man’s the lead. So there’s just not parity there, we’re not on equal footing.”

The aftereffects of youthful escapes into movie houses.

He’s got millions of followers on Vine. He’s got sponsors paying him tens of thousands to promote their products. He’s got a vanity license plate that says “AYYYYYYY.” It’s not enough.

The man who gets all the superhero scoops in Hollywood.

On the enduring appeal, both amateur and academic, of man vs. dinosaur.

On Ferguson, Cosby, and what ‘racial progress’ really means.

On a book of photographs shot by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1950s and 1960s depicting an African tribe.

On Wonder Woman’s feminist past.

In Austin in 1973, politicos and hippies could get together and create violent, visionary horror films for $60,000. So they did. The story of how The Texas Chainsaw Massacre got made.

A profile of Harold Ramis, director of Groundhog Day, who died today.

After two years of filming Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole returns to his childhood home in Ireland.

Plus: 50 years later, Gay Talese remembers the late Peter O'Toole.

He came home from Vietnam, wrote the novel that became Full Metal Jacket, was nominated for an Oscar and riding high. Then he got thrown in jail for stockpiling stolen library books, started drinking, cut off his friends and fled to a remote Greek island. He never made it back.

The backstory of “The Duke in His Domain,” Truman Capote’s 1957 New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando.

A profile of RZA, hip-hop artist and kung fu film director.

Blockbusters in the age of “corporate irony.”

On the novelist’s experience in movie-making.

The Drugstore Cowboy star candidly discusses the characters who defined her career.

Scientology’s stronghold on Tom Cruise’s dating life.

The elusive director’s early years.