Thus far Elder Scrolls Online has impressed with its staggering level of refinement both large and small. It may be early in the game, but I can’t envision this becoming the gear chase that many of its contemporaries do. At least not while there’s still so much to develop about what’s in my character rather than what‘s on it.

Noah is a big risk by a brilliant director which leaves a lot to complain about and not enough good to wash its sins away.

Last week we opened the polls for our very first, very own awards ceremony, the Mythies, celebrating the best in genre movies and fringe movie categories. Well, our readers have spoken and the results are in.

With the Oscars fast approaching, we at Pop Mythology decided that we’d like to recognize some of 2013’s cinematic highlights in our own unique way, highlighting films and performances which the Academy is likely to ignore: the geek films, the superhero films, the end of the world films, and the cheap films.

Sadly, despite its good intentions, if The Monuments Men is remembered at all, it will be as a minor work.

While I am not a scientist, there is finally a way for me, and thousands or millions of other non-scientists, to help in the fight against cancer. All we have to do is play a video game.

Read all the how-to books you want, but the best way to learn fiction writing is by studying the masters. Whether you’re writing novels or screenplays, there’s a lot to learn from the modern masters of TV writing. Here are eighteen of the best TV shows to study, listed with the characteristic that stands out the strongest in their writing.

The success of Lorde’s music acknowledges that we all, as members of society, are influenced by popular media. We may want to reject it, but in our very rejection we validate its power.

World of Warcraft completely took away an entire year of my life. But it gave the rest of it back to me.

Ultimately, Shadow Recruit is exactly like every other Tom Clancy-inspired thriller: fine and forgettable.

The intended effect of these figurative celebrity punches is a reality check, a wake up call and plea to step out of the self-absorbed, privileged bubble they live in and remember what it's like to just be a person.

As he plays The Novelist, this novelist thinks about everything he’s sacrificed, the options he didn't choose, the career choices he passed on, the friends and lovers he's pushed away, the people he may have hurt over the course of his own narrative. He worries. He wonders if these decisions were right.

Although beautifully filmed, acted, and realized, one’s enjoyment of Her is based on how deeply one buys into the film’s central conceit: the love between a man and his operating system.

Dallas Buyers Club is a well-acted, well-made film, the exact type that one can expect during the push toward Oscar season. It just doesn’t live up to the transcendence it so desperately proclaims.

This is where we have come as a society, to the point where even a TV series which is too silly and over-edited to be called a documentary can dominate our national dialog and have us foaming at the mouth, rabid and raring for a fight.