Most cineastes born in the last three or four decades probably first saw Peter Cushing onscreen in George Lucas’ original Star Wars, playing Death Star commander Grand Moff Tarkin, a role that came at...

“That’s how it always begins. Very small.” This quote from John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China opens Plague Town, the first book in author Dana Fredsti’s Ashley Parker series. Any cult-film b...

Roger Ebert has died. Over the last decade, he had battled cancer in his salivary and thyroid glands. On his blog on Tuesday, he announced a recurrence of his cancer and said it would mean a “leave of...