Imagine, if you will, the scenario of a President of the United States of America committing an indescribable sexual indiscretion in the Oval Office of the White House, only to find that the whole of America knows about it....

The movie was never...

Hiroshima mon amour is a story of two past-time lovers told through a long (36 hours) conversation. It is a French drama movie written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Alain Resnais. It was published in 1959, originally in French which runs for...

La Jetée is a science fiction story performed in a series of mostly still photos explained through a narrator. The featurette was made by Chris Marker and was first released in 1962, distributed by Argos Films. Even though the story only lasts for...

First acted out in 1960, Happy Days is a classic play by Samuel Beckett. The play follows the stories of Winnie and Willie, two people that live simple (yet confusing), happy lives. This play is seen by viewers and critics alike as being very...

Bread and Wine is an anti-fascist novel, meaning that it looks down upon the system of totalitarianism, where one person is in complete control of the government and its functions. Originally published in 1936 in Switzerland, though in the German...

Much like its predecessor, Evil Dead 2 was critically and financially successful. On Rotten Tomatoes, critics approved of the film 98% of the time and audiences approved of the film 89% of the time. After giving the film 3 out of 4 stars,...

The play Bran Nue Dae was written by the Australian Jimmy Chi and was published in the year 1990. The play is meant to be performed as a musical and so it contains many musical pieces. Many attribute this characteristic to the fact that the author...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released in 1986 by Paramount Pictures. The film was written and directed by John Hughes and stars Matthew Broderick with Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones and Jennifer Gray. It was produced by Hughes and Tom Jacobson...

"Would I have become friends with my father if I went to school with him?"

That question was the germ (courtesy of producer/co-writer Bob Gale) for a film that eventually became the science fiction classic Back to the Future (1985). Gale and...

If the general public was asked to list their five favorite romantic comedies, Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally (1989) would likely be on many of the lists. The Hollywood Reporter wonderfully sums up the feelings of those who love the film. In...

Before the release of 1999's The Matrix, directors Laurence and Andrew Wachowski (now Lana and Lilly Wachowski, respectively) were virtually unknown commodities. Their previous -- and first -- film, 1996's Bound, was well-received but made very...

John Grisham is generally considered to be the gold standard of the legal thriller. The Street Lawyer is his ninth novel, and like his other work was critically well received, and almost guaranteed to be made into a blockbuster film, or at the...

George Chauncey completed his Ph.D. in history at Yale University. He's currently a professor of history at Columbia University, continuing the work of his grad school education after a brief period teaching at Yale. He's particularly interested...

Reasons of State is a fictional political novel written by Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, and published in 1975. The novel is a very important piece of Latin American literature, as it captures the events of the times, which were mostly of...

Imagine trying to cope with the changes both within yourself and in the world around you as you are turning eight years old; then imagine trying to cope when the older brother you look up to and depend on has an accident that forever changes his...