‘Tombstone’s Filming Locations, Explained

From its opening frames, Tombstone announces that place is as important as character. George P. Cosmatos’ 1993 Western isn’t simply recounting the legend of Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral; it’s selling the illusion of a raw, dust-choked boomtown on the...

This Was the First Horror Movie Ever Made

Long before horror became a marketable genre with its own icons and formulas, the idea of being frightened by a movie was something far stranger and more primal. In the 1890s, cinema itself was the shock, a flickering illusion that made still photographs breathe,...