Ever since the first major Marvel studios picture "Iron Man," hit theaters in 2008, Marvel has dominated both the national and international box offices. Currently, we are in Phase 2 of their "Avengers"...

Roger Ebert, the recently deceased but forever reigning film critic, once wrote a series called "The Great Movies," in which he examined some of the greatest motion pictures ever made. In order to pay...

In answering the titular question, I will begin with this opinion; what makes each art form great is that which makes it singular. What makes music great is its ability to convey an emotional journey...

First of all, a brief but necessary confession; I'm no beer connoisseur. This is due in no small part to the fact that I have only been able to legally obtain said beverage for a little over a month. It...

I have long loved Bruce Springsteen's red-blooded rock hits, but, until recently, I had never thought of these songs as anything more than a guilty pleasure. Only in more recent years have I realized that,...

If you watch Olympic gymnastics, you have seen it.  The gymnast is on top of the world, swooping, flipping, soaring"”and then next thing you know, to your great shock and theirs as well, they've fallen...

When "Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb" was first released in 1964, it was declaimed by some as a brilliant political statement and denounced by others as un-American....

When at the movies, I often feel like pulling a Patti LuPone. For the uninitiated, LuPone is one of Broadway's reigning divas"”and she was rarely more divalicious than when she famously stopped a show...

Every now and then, someone will ask me why I go to the movies so often. The CliffNotes reply I usually offer is this: I go to be impressed by craft and enlightened by truth. The best films ("Casablanca")...

The 130,000-plus people who attended this year's San Diego Comic-Con international were treated to never-before-seen film footage and quite literally hundreds of celebrity appearances. A convention that...

Like any academic year, this one holds the potential for both success and struggle. To help you maximize the former and minimize the latter, a few Trinity professors have kindly offered their own tips...