Trains are cool, but what if you could explode things on it, or inside of it? That’d be even cooler. From freight trains to monorails, cinema has had a history of producing some of the most phenomenal ...

The perfect movie car chase scene is like a good carburetor: simple in theory, complex in execution, and absolutely magical when everything clicks. You need three ingredients: a road with some kind of ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Clint Bentley, who co-wrote and directed the new film "Train Dreams." It's based on the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson. "Train Dreams" is a movie of a life in full in just ...

"Train Dreams" is a movie of a life in full in just under two hours. An orphan, Robert Grainier, grows up among ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, becomes a logger in the early 1900s. He ...