Will Dying Horses Ever Be A Dead Horse Trope?
Animals, people, and default empathy settings. Read More...
Ciara Wardlow
The Plot Twist Checklist
A toolbox for the construction of plot twists, not an instruction manual (nobody reads those anyway). Read More...
The Badass Little Girl and Old Guy Hall of Fame
An ode to one of the oddest odd couple tropes to repeatedly grace the silver screen. Read More...
Christopher Nolan’s Emotional Objects and the ‘Dunkirk’ Exception
All of Christopher Nolan's films use props to appeal to your emotions apart from Dunkirk. Read More...
To Build a Great Villain, Start With One of These 13 Motivations
Featuring a convenient guide of villain motives to help you Build-Your-Own Bad Guy. Twirly mustaches, prominent cheekbones, long-haired cats, and other accessories not included. Read More...
The Great Rags to Riches Stories of ‘Game of Thrones’
To quote Drake, "Started from the bottom, now we're here." Read More...
‘Game of Thrones’ and the Art of Promotional Misdirection
As the King of Television, Game of Thrones doesn't need to sell itself to viewers anymore. But that doesn't mean the promos don't serve a very important purpose... Read More...
7 Reasons Paul Newman Was The Ultimate All-American Dreamboat
Celebrating the Ryan Gosling that we didn't have to import from Canada. Read More...
The Ways in Which Cinema Celebrates Its Own Royalty
Exploring the many ways iconic directors have ended up in other peoples' movies. Read More...
We’ve Lost Summer Movie Season
Where did it go? Was it ever really there at all? Let's look at some numbers. Read More...
Ciara Wardlow
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Human being who writes about movies and other things. Contributor to Film School Rejects and college student. Sometimes I try to be funny on Twitter.