The Song of Achilles has always made the idea of glory feel a little... empty. The whole story spends so much time telling us that Achilles is destined to be remembered. But when you strip away the ...

Our Chemical Hearts” is deeply personal for me. This story has stayed with me years after I finished the book and watched the film adaptation because of how raw and painfully human the characters felt ...

Aashiqui 2 is the prime example of love being beautiful and devastating at the exact same time. Rahul loves Aarohi so deeply that he convinces himself the only thing he can do for her is disappear ...

Women in sports have been fighting against sexualization and towards equal representation and respect for decades. How far ...

Breaking down everything that has led up to and unfolded during the shortened five episodes season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. It centers on Taylor Frankie Paul’s chaotic relationship with ...

Late-night matches, electric crowds, American pride, and a little New York City chaos: What's not to love about the US Open?

For as long as I can remember, the Chicago Bears have been the worst team in the entire league in both the National Football ...

The Glass Menagerie has always felt like a story about people who are waiting for their lives to begin. Amanda is waiting for the world to become the way she remembers it. Tom is waiting for the right ...

When I first read The Art of Racing in the Rain a few years ago, I expected a touching story about a dog. What I found instead was a meditation on love, resilience, grief, hope, and, above all, what ...

The Green Mile's original conclusion relies on a devastating, passive tragedy-the execution of a miraculous force of empathy by characters who recognize his innocence but lack the courage to defy a ...

There is something deeply strange about The Matrix ending the way it does. Neo spends the entire story learning that the world around him is constructed, that the rules he thought were permanent are ...

There are very few characters in Harry Potter whose stories feel unfinished in the way Teddy Lupin’s does. Perhaps that is because Teddy is barely given a story at all. He exists in the margins of a ...