What are the top 25 most American movies? This is the question Esquire’s editors posed to me as the nation prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding. I pondered this with questions ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this report misidentified the music stars who made cameos in 1980's "The Blues Brothers." Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and James Brown all appeared ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. A listing of influential movies ...

William likes watching movies and writing about those movies. Anything else is minutae. Fantasy movies aren’t beholden to any borders. Many of them take place in completely fictional worlds based on ...