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.

How a pair of HGTV stars are trying to renovate the reputation of Waco, Texas.

The home of The Americans, Fargo, and The People v. O.J. Simpson is run by John Landgraf, aka “the Mayor of Television.”

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

“In some ways fame is gratifying, but you have to be very careful of what you wish for because you just might get it.”

Oliver Stone wanted a hit—and the chance to put America’s most iconic dissident onscreen. The subject wanted veto power. The Russian lawyer wanted someone to option the novel he’d written. The American lawyer just wanted the whole insane project to go away. Somehow a film got made.

He was just another coked-up agent (repping the likes of Steven Soderbergh) when he disappeared into Iraq, shooting heaps of footage he would attempt to package into a pro-war documentary. And that was just the beginning.

Behind the scenes with Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, and a 22-year-old film student named John Singleton.

On the Dancing Dolls of Jackson, stars of the reality show Bring It! and part of a long Southern tradition of majorette dancing.

A profile of Stanley Kubrick written by his longtime friend.

With The BFG, the filmmaker tackles childhood’s possibilities and terrors once again.

What started as a DVD-mailing service has changed the way we watch TV. Now Netflix has to do it again. (And again. And again.)

Getting arrested was the best thing to ever happen to Jeremy Meeks.

A profile of Chloë Sevigny, 19-year-old It Girl.

An $140 million blockbuster written and funded by a billionaire, ‘Empires of the Deep’ was supposed to be China’s ‘Avatar,’ featuring mermaids, Greek warriors, pirates, sea monsters, and an even international stars.

Six years after being filmed, the movie has never seen the light of day.

An oral history of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

Inside Friends of Abe, one of Hollywood’s most influential (and most discreet) political organizations.

What happened to the Afghan timber worker after a 2005 battle was made into a book and feature film.

A history of the women’s television channel and its push to employ female writers and directors long before it became an issue in Hollywood.

“It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation. I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.”

Welcome to Wakaliwood, where a resourceful producer in the slums of Kampala makes action movies like Who Killed Captain Alex? Uganda’s First Action Movie for about $200 apiece.

How a 29-year-old actress, reeling from the death of her first love and battling Dustin Hoffman off-screen, found herself on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer.