” Oh, come on now, Edith. Please, please, let’s be honest with ourselves. You weren’t thinking any more of Dick than i was. “ Film Detective (TFD), a leading classic media streaming network and film ...

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

Despite only lasting four short years from 1930 to 1934, the pre-code era of Hollywood’s Golden Age produced films that pushed the boundaries of cinema and storytelling, even by today’s standards.

This week in puzzling online discourse, a subset of Gen Z is looking wistfully back on the era of the Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code, a voluntary (well, technically) set ...

Bruce Goldstein loves movies from the Pre-Code Era. Give him 30 minutes, and he’ll give you the entire history of it. As the founding director of repertory programming at New York’s Film Forum (as ...

As more people got their hands on early film cameras, movies quickly went from snapshots of someone sneezing to workers clocking out to full-blown narratives exploring life, love, and the human ...

Parents, lock up your children. Wives, keep a wary eye on your husbands. “Baby Face” is coming to town. More specifically, the uncensored version of the profane Holy Grail of pre-Code Hollywood cinema ...

David is a Senior Editor at Collider focused primarily on Lists. His professional journey began in the mid-2010s as a Marketing specialist before embarking on his writing career in the 2020s. At ...

Scantily-clad women, sexual innuendo, drugs and violence, independent females facing off against unshaven macho males: What are we talking about here – today’s entertainment fare? Nope. We’re taking ...