Fox's well-received new series Fringe is something of a throwback ...
In a comment on our article titled "'Dark Knight' Evokes Interesting Philosophical, T...
In a comment on our article titled "'Dark Knight' Evokes Interesting Philosophical, T...
Pixar's WALL-E led a strong slate at the U.S. box office that resulted in the biggest-gros...
Robert Downey Jr., star of the megahit movie Iron Man, has signed on for a new film that c...
The acclaimed science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke was difficult to categorize. That's ...
The mid-century mystery and science-fiction master Fredric Brown deserves much greater rec...
Could this be the start of a new trend toward greater optimism and positivity in the cultu...
Fox TV comes up with two new drama series featuring troubled geniuses. (more&helli...
"Dark" fiction can have highly positive values behind it, writes S. T. Karnick. ...
American film critics detest violent movies—unless there's an antisocial message inv...
In the absence of God, humans seek ultimate control over the world—and never find it...
Here's a preview of an article coming soon on another site. I've been working with the edi...
This Sunday night at 10 p.m EST, CBS attempts to bolster its writers-strike-depleted prime...
Sometimes meaningful cultural moments crop up in the most unexpected places.One place you'...
Turner Classic Movies is presenting a documentary on filmmaker Val Lewton, produced and na...
After the success of several tie-in novels featuring characters from the USA Network detec...
TAC Mystery Fiction Correspondent Mary Reed reviews a classic novel by English suspense wr...
My favorite BBC programming has always been its mystery series, and the best of those are ...
Most movies, even those that seem rather mindless, actually do have some serious thematic ...
New The American Culture correspondent Mike Long has put together a very contrarian and ve...
In an essay provocatively called "The Slow and Agonizing Death of the Private Detecti...
A classic type of literary and folk-tale character is the trickster, an individual who rou...
As expected, the Will Smith-starring intellectual zombie film I Am Legend opened very stro...
A very good movie series that has been unjustly overlooked since the cultural cataclysm th...
It's rather startling how much of the culture is exploring moral issues in increasingly tr...
This past weekend's movie box office tallies provided more evidence that U.S. audiences ar...
Tonight at 8:00 EDT Turner Network Television is showing a very underrated movie from 1957...
Like Pushing Daisies (analyzed earlier on this site), the new CBS drama series Moonlight e...
Critic John J. Miller has published a very informative interview with Robert E. Howard sch...
Mystery critic Jon Breen, writing in The Weekly Standard, has offered the best capsule des...
The mixing of genres can be interesting when it works, but when it doesn't, it's usually a...
If you need any demonstration of the amazing cultural power of tweeners (young people exit...
