Storytelling
The Unfortunate Lesson Storytellers Should Learn from Missing Link
Laika’s biggest animated fim is missing a crucial element that causes the movie to fall short of satisfying.
Laika’s biggest animated fim is missing a crucial element that causes the movie to fall short of satisfying.
Captain Marvel offers a smart answer to a hard storytelling question: how do you make a compelling movie about the world’s strongest hero?
Mortal Engines may be one of 2018’s biggest box-office bombs, but it didn’t have to be. Here’s the key ingredient the movie forgot to include.
This caper flick wants you to believe it’s full of twists and turns… but it’s frustatingly empty.
From The Sopranos to Westworld, how the 10 of the best TV shows displayed their game-changing brilliance from their very first episodes.
Every “must-see” TV show uses some of these addictive story tricks, but only Game of Thrones combined them all to create a runaway hit.
Ant-Man and the Wasp has a plot built entirely out of MacGuffins and a villain who finally breaks Marvel’s mold.
When I was about 5 or 6, I had a thought that both exhilarated and terrified me. I was riding in the car with my parents, looking out the window, and I thought… How do I know if I’m real? Beyond that… how do I know if “reality” even exists? Read more…
10 years after Marvel Studios released Iron Man, here’s how that movie’s success has been duplicated in every MCU film since.
Here’s why Captain Flint on Black Sails is one of the best-written characters in this current era of Peak TV.