So what checklist questions does “Black-ish” not check off?  It doesn’t bring different economic classes together . We’ve seen this before ...

There were many Western ways for The Farewell to end:  Billi can’t take it anymore and confronts her Nai Nai with the truth. Billi agrees t...

I say in my checklist that characters should be both emotionally and physically vulnerable, but is that true in The Farewell ?  Billi is ver...

So according to our checklist, Chris seems like a rather deficient hero in Get Out . Let’s look at at all the character tests he fails: ...

As I watch movies for this blog, I find that most movies meet most steps of the structure I expect them to have. Sometimes, when they don...

You may have noticed that in each of my annotations I’ve praised opening sentences for having no adjectives or adverbs, and in our last po...

Lee Child insists that he doesn’t research, doesn’t outline, and doesn’t revise . He just sits down and writes, and the most he ever dele...

I don’t want to talk about it much, for fear of ruining this amazing first season for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, but suffice it...

When you’re just starting out, it’s hard to get noticed, but one way to do it is with a very-high-concept pilot. I’ve said before that it...

We’ve talked about grievances harbored by Selma critics, but let’s move on to one harbored by the movie’s fans: Why didn’t David Oyelowo ...