Horror tropes provide a sense of comfort and protection while still delivering scares. They remind us that what we're watching is just a movie and allow us to feel in control. Tropes like creepy kids ...

From Euripides' Medea and Charlotte Brontë's "madwoman in the attic" to more modern reclamations, portrayals of madwomen in literature have come a long way.

Jasneet Singh is a writer who finally has a platform to indulge in long rants about small moments on TV and film in overwhelming detail. With a literature background, she is drawn to the narrative ...

In the years since cinema began, there have been many tropes and concepts that have been used over and over, in different contexts and different iterations. One of the most interesting of these tropes ...

Cannibalism can be kind of sexy and romantic, honestly. These five movies prove that eating flesh is the ultimate act of ...

People who know Naledi are perpetually aware of two things: he is a talented visual artist, and he has seen copious amounts of anime. Many classic isekai have depth compared to recent iterations with ...

Sometimes your scenes involving supersmart characters take dumb, dreadfully expected turns. I'm talking about when a smartie's outburst of techno babble is met by his or her layman colleagues with ...

The spread of a particular genre of music reflects the borders between medieval empires in Europe. This is shown by a study ...