A Berlin retrospective salutes a handful of B-movie masters and grindhouse auteurs in all their gritty glory: "These were outsider filmmakers making outsider, maverick movies." ...

The literary basis was the classic fairy tale Cinderella. In the movie, Cinderella is a young woman who is treated badly by her wicked ... The film is so closely associated with the Christmas season ...

Next up was Charlie Chaplin’s 1941 black comedy, “The Great Dictator,” an anti-fascist spoof that, along with his capitalism-critical movie “Modern Times,” was used as evidence of the silent film star ...