The medieval world wasn’t a tourist brochure of castles and courtly dances. It was raw, violent, often absurd, and deeply human. Picture muddy battlefields where armies clashed with swords that ...

There’s something about winter that automatically puts the brain in medieval mode. Maybe it’s the Game of Thrones conditioning (“winter is coming,” etc.). Maybe it’s the constant consumption of soup ...

Humphrey Bogart staring blankly ahead in The Petrified Forest, 1937. Image via Warner Bros. Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, and The Godfather are among some of the greatest films ever made, but other ...