Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

Los Angeles, 1984The Terminator takes place in a ravaged hellhole of a city. A shroud of smog and spent gunpowder covers the sky in perpetual darkness. Abandoned buildings crumble from across the h...

Three-Act Structure Time-travel narratives can be a little, um…messy. What with causality loops, multiple timelines, and an army of potential paradoxes, these stories can get super muddled in the...

Science Fiction, Action, HorrorTech NoirTime travel is afoot, and it won't take Sherlock Holmes to tell us we're dealing with some science-fiction. We've also got a killer cyborg, sentient artifici...

Horror movies feature creatures that come in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and degrees of gooiness, yet there are several unwritten rules that their stories follow. For example, the monster s...

Just putting it out there right away: we are only discussing the ending to the original Terminator. We will not be discussing the timeline-shattering implications of T2's "There's no fate but what...

RThe Terminator isn't just an R-rated movie—it's an '80s R-rated movie. Translation: consider this a hard R. This film is violent, and we're talking about an '80s level of violence: people are sh...