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.

The New Year's Day Film tradition is about more than entertainment or opening the year with something enjoyable. It’s about establishing a state of mind, acknowledging that things aren’t perfect, never will be, but remaining focused on what’s most important.

'The Wolf of Wall Street' was never going to be as universally appreciated as much of its creators’ previous work, but that’s kind of the point. It is meant to be ridiculous, both through its characters’ actors and through the fact that they are allowed carry them out.

Whether "American Hustle" is the sign of a brilliant work by a confident filmmaker or a haphazard jumble by an indulgent one is up for the viewer, but even with its numerous detours, it entertains through an outstanding cast, strong dialog and a very solid sense of place and style.

No matter how hard life gets there are always reasons to live, and at Pop Mythology we find that pop culture alone gives us more than enough reasons to endure. And so with 2014 coming on fast, here is our list of the stuff we anticipate most.