We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In Sidney Lumet's terse 1975 classic "Dog Day Afternoon," based on the 1972 Life Magazine biography "The Boys in the Bank" by P.F. Kluge, Al ...

Dog Day Afternoon starts off as a dark comedy centered around its bumbling, amateur robbers. As soon as the guns are brought out, one of the robbers chickens out and runs out of the bank. It is then ...

Some movies speak loudly and carry a big cultural-impact stick. In the ’70s, for example: the first “Godfather” film, the second, even better one, or even bigger, “Jaws.” And “Star Wars.” They have ...