Johnny’s classmate tells him that most adults are hiding at least one dark secret, so it’s very easy to blackmail them by saying, “I know...

Saying goodbye to someone you love can be difficult and can lead to misunderstandings. Consider the goodbye of Marge and her dearly...

A little boy was afraid of the dark. One night his mother told him to go out to the back porch and bring her the broom. The little boy...

It’s Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day is the third-largest card-sending holiday—113 million cards that have their say about mother. Here’s a...

Rabbi Joshua Franklin preached a moving sermon on the story of a reconciliation between estranged brothers found in the Torah. Here is...

Most action movies live and die by one thing—the cliff hanger—that end of the story where the plot is unresolved. You are left hanging in...

The alure of a story on the silver screen is the characters and how much they change in the face of, seemingly, irreconcilable...

One of my favorite movie genres is a meeting of two genres—romance and comedy. It’s called “rom-com.” When unlikely love-interests meet,...

In the movies, there are the good guys and the bad guys. Sometimes, the bad guy is the good guy. Who do you root for? In Catch Me If You...

Movies and other story-forms are like mirrors. They show the best and worst of man—our ambitions to do good and our appetites to do evil....

Movies can be like post cards, snap shots of some the greatest places on earth like Rome in Roman Vacation with Audrey Hepburn; like...

What are the toughest jobs on earth: nuclear physicists, brain surgeons, parents, God. God? That’s right—God. It’s not an easy...

Everyone likes a good road trip because often, it’s the “going”, not just the “getting there” that gives you enjoyment. Great movies do...

There is one rule in creating drama to build a blockbuster story that fills the big screen with action: create a problem. And the...

Some stories are made for the big screen because…well…they are big like epic-disaster big: earthquake big, meteor big, iceberg big like...

For as long as men have been telling stories and putting them on the silver screen, one subject has been prominent—war: Spartacus, The...

Every great story that makes it to the silver screen has a memorable line. The mere mention of that line triggers in us, the drama that...

What are some of the greatest stories to make it to the silver screen: Gone with the Wind, The God Father, Star Wars. They all have what...

Happy New Year. If you haven’t already, you and millions of others are making plans for the New Year. We call them resolutions. Some...

Tis the season to be jolly is on everybody’s favorite Christmas song list because for many, Christmas is a jolly time, a time for a party...