The detective genre has been a powerhouse in fiction since the days of Sherlock Holmes, paving the way for mystery thriller masterpieces like Knives Out and The Silence of the Lambs. The 1970s gave ...

Back in the late '70s, Telly Savalas' TV detective Kojak came very close to making a cameo in one of the decade's most iconic movies. So, what went wrong?

Coming off the rapidly changing social mores prevalent in the 1960s, the 1970s felt like a generally darker and more cynical decade in terms of artistic output. A lot of the best movies of the 1970s ...