While the career of novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry overflows with great accomplishments, there’s a special...

          If you have difficulty envisioning a gripping drama about the travails of first-year students at Harvard Law School,...

          Full disclosure: My first book was about Dalton Trumbo, the writer-director of Johnny Got His Gun , and in th...

          With its colorful cast and impressive location photography—to say nothing of the admirable use of indigenous ...

Man, if this one lived up to its poster, the movie would be killer. Unfortunately, A Small Town in Texas is not the le...

  Vietnam-vet movies came in all shapes and sizes during the ’70s, but it’s nonetheless startling to realize that someone thought PTSD w...

          Pure escapism, Rollercoaster combines many styles of pulpy entertainment that thrived in the ’70s: It’s a disaster movie, a ...

          The blockbuster success of Love Story (1970) reminded studios about the moneymaking potential of over-the-top tearjerkers, which...

          Best known for the Oscar-winning adapted screenplays of Julia (1977) and Ordinary People (1980), Alvin Sargent has spent his ca...

          Adapted from the true story of a bold Allied assassination attempt against a high-ranking Nazi officer, Operation Daybreak offer...