Tag: books

  • 10 memorable movie fathers

    Movie dads, like everything and everyone else on the big screen, are a reflection of their time. That’s why the all-knowing patriarchs of Life with Father and To Kill a Mockingbird in classic American cinema began to recede with the emergence of New Hollywood in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. Suddenly fathers became more…

  • The 10 best road-trip movies

    “I take the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me,” wrote the poet Walt Whitman, long before anyone in Hollywood even thought about shooting a road-trip movie. The road is a potent storytelling metaphor. It conjures journeys both external and internal. It symbolizes freedom, reinvention, and escape––or just a place to get your kicks…

  • The 10 best movies about infidelity

    As a general rule, any violation of one of the 10 Commandments tends to be great story material. There’s a reason cheating has long been a mainstay of literature, film and television, not to mention about 90% of the lyrics that have come out of Nashville. Infidelity is catnip for storytellers. The stakes are baked…