On race and risk in American culture.

A profile of the Handmaid’s Tale star.

A profile of Norman Lear, the producer behind All in the Family and The Jeffersons, who is still making TV at age 94.

A profile of The Rock, the best friend you didn’t know you had.

On a comic offering portrayals of secular Muslims that American audiences rarely see.

From “Idiocracy” to “Silicon Valley,” the writer and director has established himself as America’s foremost chronicler of its own self-destructive tendencies.

Conspiracy theorists think that the government killed the aspiring Libertarian filmmaker David Crowley to stop him from making his film about an authoritarian takeover of the United States and the vets who fight back. The truth is far stranger.

Danny Rubin wrote the movie and then the musical 24 years later. What happens when one thing becomes your entire life?

The reclusive director comes out of his shell at 73.

How Carl Foreman, while tangling with the House Un-American Activities Committee, turned a throwaway Western into an allegory for the Hollywood blacklist.

Franklin Leonard’s anonymous survey has launched careers, recognized four of the past eight Best Picture winners, and pushed movie studios to think beyond sequels and action flicks.

A profile of the Atlanta star and creator, who also released a hit album in 2016 and is set to star in the next Star Wars.

The screaming ambassador to the sidewalks of New York City.

No one understands our new era of reality-TV populism better than the man who turned “The Real Housewives” into an empire.

“Oh, I think I do overshare, and I sometime marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself. I don't know. I get it out of my head. It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know - I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.”

Revisiting the 2006 masterpiece.

You never watched Shazaam.

The battle to make The Godfather pitted director Francis Ford Coppola against producers including Robert Evans, and the production itself against the real life mob.

On the road with Billy Bob Thornton and his band The Boxmasters. Twenty years after Sling Blade all he wants to do is direct but “but none of those Hollywood assclowns will give him the keys anymore.”

The world’s greatest animator, Yuri Norstein, hasn’t released a new film in 37 years.

The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican’s 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.

Memories of Marilyn Monroe.

On America’s deep and persistent fear of the black penis.

It was the middle of the day in the steamy Philippine jungle and the sun was merciless. Director Francis Ford Coppola, dressed in rumpled white Mao pajamas, was slowly making his way upriver in a motor launch.

A profile of the filmmaker Errol Morris as he prepared to release The Thin Blue Line after a decade of limited distribution, semi-poverty, and a side career as a private detective.