Many of the movies on this AFI top 100 list are based off of books. Funny enough, some of them are much more remembered for the movie they inspired, like The Godfather and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.…

Sometimes it’s easy to take for granted that certain genres of movies exist. We have seen so many mockumentaries, slasher films, Adam Sandler movies, that it’s easy to forget that they had to start from somewhere.…

I think it’s safe to say that we all have movie blind spots. In the last AFI article, I had talked about how I had watched The Apartment for the first time.…

Of course, for all of us, there’s fairly big movies that we haven’t seen because we had no interest in watching them. This is true for even the biggest movie buffs. Which is more rare.…

When AFI top 100 movies are mentioned, a lot of adjectives could come to mind: great, prestigious, accomplished, old, stuffy. Yet, one adjective.…

It’s amazing when a film is able to so accurately point towards a problem that it becomes even more meaningful and relevant 50 years after it’s made.…

Writing in-depth about the films on this AFI list, I’ve been avoiding one type. It’s not that I don’t like them, although I’ll admit it’s way easier to get bored, but because I’m a bit intimidated by them…

Four years before he made what’s commonly regarded as the best science fiction movie of all time and sixteen years before he made what’s commonly regarded as the best horror film of all time,…

This AFI list I’ve been covering is specifically looking at the greatest American films of all time. And because of that, many of the movies have been about America, either explicitly or at least thematically…

I recently wrote an article on writer’s block, writing being one of my passions, and it led me to think about the parallels between that and an issue faced within another one of my passions: improv…

How do you make a codependent relationship funny? Or someone needing medical marijuana? Or an impoverished…

As both a writer and a teacher of writing, the topic of writer’s block has found its way into my thoughts and conversations many times.…

Lots of these movies are famous, but most are not as famous as this one…

Look at any list where the greatest TV series ever are ranked, and you’ll commonly see…

If a drama with no comedy relief is painful, then a comedy without it is a session in an iron maiden…