The musical group, R.E.M.’s most popular song is arguably “Losing My Religion.” The first two lines of the lyrics are, “Life, it’s bigger; I...

Exactly 30 years after The Omen (1976), The Omen (2006) was released. An older boy plays Damien in the remake, which means that the actor ...

As if the macabre specter of a ghost, albeit in a white sheet with two black eye-holes, were not enough for a spooky film, David Lowery ende...

In a retelling of the proverbial Faustian deal with the devil,  The Mephisto Waltz   (1971) plays out with the deal paying off, as Duncan El...

The medium of film has an amazing ability to trigger emotions, even very strong ones, through dialogue, narrative, cinematography and sound....

Considering the amount of screentime devoted to raw violence, it may come as a surprise that The Crow (1994) is actually about love. Not th...

The medium of film has great potential in playing with ontology, the branch of philosophy that asks (and tries to answer) the fundamental qu...

The Picture of Dorian Gray , a Gothic and philosophical novel written by Oscar Wilde, was first published in 1890. The first motion picture...

The film narrative centers on Satan impregnating Rosemary, a married woman in New York City. According to Roman Polanski, the film’s direct...

Virtual reality may be coming your way, and when it hits, it could hit big—as if all at once. The explosion of computers and cell phones ...

Screenwriters who want to distinguish their work as riveting in terms of meaning and being thought-provoking can look to myths (living or d...