For comedy there is a genre, for horror there is a genre, for action there is a genre. Then why is there no genre name for sad or crying movies?
I've stumbled upon (and watched) a number of films that share many things: Divergent, The Maze Runner, The Giver and so on (I will add as I recall othrs that I'
"Buddy cop show" is a common trope; but so is a partnering of a cop and a civilian, and especially a cop and an extraordinary civilian (a mentalist in The Menta
The genres, in my opinion, have a very slim boundary separating one from another. I see a lot of movies being categorized as thriller or horror almost interchan
In recent years, networks such as The Discovery Channel have been airing so-called documentaries that have people believing that what they are seeing is not onl
When looking at the film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) and possibly disregarding if the main character is fictitious or not, then it's not entirely clear wh
The Big Short movie is all about serious things: The 2008 financial crisis (which banks blamed the bad things on immigrants, the poor, and even teachers) mort
My dictionary had the following definitions for the word "epic": epic: telling a story about a hero or about exciting events or adventures and epic: a
In the comments for Did any actor ever win an Oscar for their work in a horror movie?, there was a lot of discussion over whether or not a thr
In the movie Maanagaram (2017), most of the main characters don't have names. Is there a name for this genre of movies in which the main characters don't have
There seems to be a romantic fascination with swords in the movies. For example, the current posters for Transformers and Wonder Woman show bo
When I was a kid, I used to read those books where, at certain points in the book, you'd be given a choice, essentially control over what the
I saw the definition on Wikipedia page and found it too complex to understand being a layman and knowing nothing about film-making. From what I could understand
I've heard people categorize it as a horror film, art film, thriller, even a black comedy. Which is it? Even my Film Studies professor was unsure.
When I first saw The Nightmare Before Christmas it was around during December when most series on free-to-air TV in Australia start to end for the year and take
I was reading another Stack Exchange post that was trying to suss out the difference between the horror and thriller genres. Some people were saying that horro
What exactly is a sitcom? In particular: what distinguishes sitcoms among the (presumably) broader category of comedy series? It's easy enough to give classica
I have just seen both Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive for the first time. Both films contain elements that would be traditionally classified as "science fiction
I've been under the impression that a historical drama is non-fiction whereas a period drama is fiction.
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unknown individuals rather