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 ...

Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

Jeffrey Weinzweig's Contraptions offers readers a thrilling journey through a world of espionage, betrayal, and advanced technology. Among the novel's many intriguing elements are the cutting-edge ...

Let’s be honest — story, plot, and premise sound like words that mean the same thing. Most of us, even as writers or film lovers, use them interchangeably. But they are not the same. In fact, they are ...

Pulp Fiction is a wild ride of a movie with a complicated story, partly because of its irreverent violence, its singular performances, its humor, and—of course—all of those plot twists. The first ...

The literary landscape of the 21st century seems more and more divided when it comes to one particular aspect: plot. Some books have it; others don’t. The have-nots have gotten a lot of critical ...

Nothing amplifies a popular trend more than a prominent critic making a noisy case against it. In her 2021 polemic, “The Case Against the Trauma Plot,” the literary critic Parul Sehgal argued that ...

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Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...

After winning the Game of the Year gong for It Takes Two at the The Game Awards 2021 I’m certain that developer Hazelight Studios was positively brimming with ideas of what to do next. I’m certain of ...