From THES, a review of Screen Education: From Film Appreciation to Media Studies by Terry Bolas; and a review of The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from its Origins to the Twenty-First Century by Gian Piero Brunetta. The country that is producing high quality fear flicks these days is not in North America nor Asia, but in Western Europe. An interview with Francis Ford Coppola on legacy, creative control, and the state of independent film. A review of Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider by Brian Neve. An article on Costa-Gavras and the Z-To-Amen of political cinema. The Heirs to Mr. Smith: How did a 70-year-old Hollywood film create the standard by which we measure all political newcomers? For decades, composer Mark Isham has been the go-to guy for making music for movies. "All movies have Christian worldview potential": One lesson to learn from A Clockwork Orange is that man is created to be free and not meant to be a mechanical being. Star Trek is back and it's logical that the religious right would want to jump into the popular movie's transporter beam. Prequels, sequels, semi-official junior prequels to penultimate graphic sequels: Joe Queenan unravels the baffling, tangled world of the movie novelisation. Here are 20 things you didn't know about movies.