When Alfred Hitchcock started making movies, he had no idea that the medium would transform in the way it did over the coming years – or that he’d be responsible for pioneering many of these changes.

Last year, it was Mickey Mouse. This year, Popeye the Sailor joins Mickey as a new entrant to the public domain — that is, shedding his core copyright protections on Jan. 1.

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from Frederick Knott’s 1952 original — which soon became Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film of the same name — “Dial M” tells a classic cat-and-mouse tale of love ...

Kubrick mastered this variety of close-up – though you could argue Hitchcock started it, with that shot of a dementedly smiling Anthony Perkins at the end of Psycho. From lowered, menacing brows ...

On the back wall are four giant concrete slabs with patterned holes. By now, you’ll know this all means a puzzle to decipher. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to solve the Secret ...

All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the public domain.

Wetherspoons is making a huge change across its 750 pubs around the country that will no doubt delight their thousands of customers. The offer will start from January 2 and go right up until ...

Whenever someone agrees wholeheartedly with something I write, I die a little inside. I know opinion columnists are supposed to be in the persuasion business, and that makes agreement the coin of ...

This year’s crop of creative works exiting copyright protection includes Gershwin’s 'An American In Paris,' Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own, and the Marx Brothers’ feature-film debut.