It would be easy for the elements of 'Amiss' to slip into a derivative crime drama, but instead the film crafts a mystery where overlapping narratives deepen character and widen the scope of an intimate story. This is a very assured piece of filmmaking from a pair of first-time feature directors without the eagerness or mimicry common to other debut films.

If nothing else, 'Edge of Tomorrow' allows Tom Cruise detractors the chance to watch the actor die over and over.

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is incredibly entertaining, fun, and jam-packed with so much mutant goodness that it could work as the film franchise's lone end of world storyline. It won't, but it could.

Whereas most 'Godzilla' movies have favored distant shots of mass destruction, this time we're on the street watching from the ground-up as titans stomp down bridges and collapse buildings like crumbling paper.

In a culture where celebrities like Jenny McCarthy and Bill O’Reilly can openly expound anti-science rhetoric to loyal, daily audiences, Neil deGrasse Tyson is a prophet for reality. In many ways, his importance is in stopping us as a society and a culture from getting progressively dumber.

It’s debatable whether any MMORPG can ever offer absolute freedom, but 'The Elder Scrolls Online' does its best to accomplish this without tearing away the exact elements which define it as an MMORPG.

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.