Writer Joseph Campbell popularized the idea of the Hero's Journey – the arc of events that define virtually every myth in human history. Movies could be called a kind of…

It's an established scientific fact that men love action, while women love romance. So what type of movie could ever bring these two disparate groups together? The action-romance, of course!…

The original historical romance to watch with your girlfriend is also a movie that many of us had to watch in high school. Everything's there, though: Doomed young lovers, their…

Ah, the fight to the death. It’s a time-honored way to end stories, whether they involve superheroes, martial artists, gladiators, or something less ambiguously homoerotic than those things. Here are…