Why the second Indiana Jones was so dark.

“Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There’s a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.”

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.

How the actress masterfully shapes her public image.

A profile of Tiny Lister, the silver screen’s half-blind villain.

Tom Cruise did not, in fact, jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.

A profile of Pamela Anderson.

A filmmaker goes to court to fight the television commercial break.

The roast where Chevy Chase learned that everyone hates him.

In Hollywood’s new blockbuster economy, the actors who portray superheroes are as interchangeable as the costumes they wear.

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

In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”

“There was an unwritten rule in Mia Farrow’s house that Woody Allen was never supposed to be left alone with their seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan.”

An oral history of Swingers.

Twenty years after its premiere, the filmmakers and subjects look back at “the great American documentary.”

Unpacking the 76,897 micro-genres that make up the cinematic DNA.

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

A comic who had previously refused to discuss his private life opens up for the first time, riding high on the surprise success of Blazing Saddles more than thirty years into his career.

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.

On director Steve McQueen and his film 12 Years a Slave.

An investigation into how Hollywood abuses animals.

“The only problem is he was so successful that Hollywood decided to devour his Xanadu, with premium vodka parties and assistants scouring the Park City Albertsons for Fiji water. ‘It makes me fucking nuts,’ says Redford.”

Wes Anderson, the Wilson brothers and Bottle Rocket.

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and his four years of production on Gravity.