From 'Jaws' and 'Titanic' to 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory', here are five movie scenes which were not actually improvised.

Tom Cruise turned a forgettable early film into a lesson that shaped his path to working only with top directors.

To call “Barry Lyndon” a great film risks understatement. It is a cinematic outlier: a three-hour historical epic made for ...

Of course, it’s hardly surprising that artists such as Godard, Bergman, Kubrick, and Fellini, who once reigned over our great art form like gods, would eventually recede into the shadows with the ...

When an actor begins their career, they don’t have much say over their direction. They take the parts that are offered ...

From Ryan Coogler's Sinners to Robert Eggers' Nosferatu, every great filmmaker has made a vampire movie, and it speaks to a ...

A Space Odyssey is forever cemented in film history for good reasons. Stanley Kubrick has one of the most significant ...

Clearly, he had no issues turning a good book into an even better movie, but even Hitchcock had to draw the line somewhere. Fyodor Dostoevsky has tripped up many writers, directors, and producers over ...

Roger Ebert was one of the most famous film critics in the world, and in 2012 he shared his five favorite films of all time ...

Steven Spielberg was only 17 when he released his first sci-fi movie, but more than 60 years later, it's impossible to watch ...