What if we told you that Million Dollar Baby is a boxing movie that isn't really about boxing? Before you suggest we get our head examined, chew on this: The boxing in the movie is a metaphor for e...

It's the elephant in the theater.In a sea of hot topics in the U.S., assisted suicide is an uncomfortable fish to fry. (And apparently to make a metaphor out of…) People are speaking out about ab...

Fresh off of a disastrous meeting with her mother, Maggie spots an adorable little girl and her equally adorable dog at a gas station. They look at her, she looks at them. Maggie finally smiles. Ev...

Frankie loves him some W.B. Yeats. Can you blame him? Yeats is a rock star of 20th-century poetry. (Given their common Irish heritage, we'd compare him to Bono, but we can't imagine Yeats forcing h...