The joy of blockbusters.

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• Rat and Mouse Game What rat movies are really about.
  Troy Patterson June 29, 2007
  
• Brad Bird, Animation Auteur How the director of Ratatouille became the Stanley Kubrick of animation.
  Josh Levin June 28, 2007
  
• Happy Meal Ratatouille moved me to tears.
  Dana Stevens June 28, 2007
  
• Wait Till Next Year Not impressed with this summer's blockbusters? Check out what's on tap for summer 2008.
  Keith Phipps June 27, 2007
  
• Killer Ideas Using movie plots to combat terrorism.
  Denis Seguin June 27, 2007
  
• The Original Tarantino How Sergio Leone ushered in our borderless pop culture.
  Elbert Ventura June 27, 2007
  
• The Surf Also Rises How macho movies get misread as homoerotic.
  Matt Feeney June 27, 2007
  
• Real American Hero The analog awesomeness of Live Free or Die Hard.
  Dana Stevens June 26, 2007
  
• Make It a Large for a Quarter More? A short history of movie theater concession stands. Plus: A candy quiz!
  Jill Hunter Pellettieri June 26, 2007
  
• Slate's Summer Movies Issue Old habits die hard.
  June 26, 2007
  
• Yippee-Ki-Yay ... The greatest one-liner in movie history.
  Eric Lichtenfeld June 26, 2007
  
• Leisure and Innocence The eternal appeal of the stoner movie.
  Marisa Meltzer June 26, 2007
  
• The State of the Ninja Pop-cultural cliché or poised for a comeback?
  Grady Hendrix June 26, 2007
  
• Revolutionary Road—the Movie Leonardo DiCaprio. Kate Winslet. Richard Yates' dark novel is finally being made into a Hollywood movie.
  Blake Bailey June 26, 2007