Like with Silence of the Lambs, sometimes something in the genre convention becomes much more than being just another genre movie and instead becomes an elevated piece of art.…

A byproduct of focusing on a list of the most critically acclaimed movies is that there’s something about critically acclaimed movies that feels like homework…

Going from the golden age of television to the platinum stage isn’t exactly easy. With movie theaters on life support and binge watching still as popular as it was during the heights of the pandemic…

Are you an aspiring TV writer or showrunner?…

Not that long ago I looked at another musical, The Sound of Music. The one I’m looking at this week is from around the same time period…

A phenomena I’ve encountered while going through the films on the AFI list is encountering some movies I had watched at some earlier point in time, didn’t like, and had decided I would never see again…

One of the coolest things about movies about making movies is that they inevitably become meta. They comment on the world, while also, by necessity, living up to the same message that they’re spreading…

So many movies begin with the word “American,” from American Beauty to American Psycho to American Gun to American Hustle…

Breaking Bad, one of the best and most popular shows of all time, spawned the spinoff, Better Call Saul…one of the best and most popular shows of all time.…

For a great example of creativity vs creative bankruptcy, watch Star Wars episode 5, and then watch episode 9. I’ll wait. Or you can just continue reading too because I’ll extrapolate…

Part of Hitchcock’s greatness is that he’s both a artistically gifted filmmaker and a very entertaining one. He creates work with deep messages that also happens to be fun every minute along the way.…

When I had covered Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, it made me realize the value that silent films have to offer.

They work within a constraint (no spoken dialogue), and with that constraint, filmmakers have to pull off a very pure trick.…

34 years ago, a movie happened that was unlike any other movie in so many ways, and it’s actually pretty amazing that it exists…

On the topic of television and manipulation, nothing quite demonstrates how our attitudes have changed from the 1950’s to today more than watching the movie Quiz Show.…

The last film, The Grapes of Wrath, came from a novel that’s fame overshadows the movie, despite the movie still making the AFI list. This one, instead, led to a TV series that also overshadows the movie.…