We all love fantasy movies with magnificent visuals and fighting, or maybe romcoms with warm and silly high school tropes. But there are a lot of movies that just touch our hearts and also provide us ...

If we watch carefully, we can glean a good deal of wisdom from the nuanced media we consume on a daily basis. Even a simple kids' movie, like Disney's “Frozen,” has lessons to offer us as we go about ...

The actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were recently found deceased, alongside one of their dogs. Many mourn their passing, including Hackman’s legions of movie-going fans. Two of my ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...