Edward James Olmos narrates an informative, archive-packed documentary that charts Valdez’s rise from impoverished son of migrant farmers to director of a Hollywood hit.

With the search for the country’s first town of culture under way, Guardian writers pick their favourite spots for art, architecture, food, festivals, music and celeb spotting ...

This legendary filmmaker is responsible for plenty of classics, but also some duds. Here are his contributions to sci-fi, ranked.

Today, we revisit the ubiquitous 1984 Bob Marley compilation Legend, a woefully incomplete portrait of the Jamaican artist ...

Superman star Christopher Reeve once teamed up with the legendary John Carpenter for a underwhelming remake of a '60s sci-fi ...

The hive mind doesn’t quite fit in the same category of horror as slashers or monsters, but it is its own impressive breed of terror. It’s been a feature of science fiction and horror for decades, ...

What do Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Simon & Garfunkel all have in common? They all emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s and went on to have ...

Two science-fiction novels published in the middle of the 20th century left a mark on the cultural psyche of Britain and America that still looms large today. In the 1950s, John Wyndham’s The Midwich ...

Carpenter was in the middle of a contract with Universal Pictures, and when the time came to work on his next film, the director behind such horror classics as "Halloween" and "They Live" had his ...

Those are the ones that follow. They’re not golden eggs in Carpenter’s oeuvre, but they’re not lumps of coal, either. A flawed but underrated action-horror movie, Ghosts of Mars unsurprisingly bombed ...