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 AngelesNot in Kansas—or New York—Anymore Guess what movie inspired Bryan Singer when envisioning the setting for The Usual Suspects? If you guessed anything other than The Wizard of Oz, you...

Story Within A Story, Unreliable Narrator In the same way that Verbal cons Kujan, The Usual Suspects cons the audience—and we mean that in the best possible way. We're dealing with an unreliable...

Neo-Noir, Whodunit, Buddy Movie Back in the mid-1990's, people were in love with cool, nihilistic movies with a high body count and reckless anti-heroes at the center—like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fi...

Unusually UsualCan't come up with a title? When in doubt just…rip it off of a magazine article. (You can't copyright a title—so technically, you can write a book and name it Harry Potter and th...

This office bulletin board has more on it than coupons and family photos…it also has the key to the mystery of the whole movie. After Verbal leaves the office, David Kujan sits around feeling mom...

RIf you love the f-word, you're going to love this movie. It doesn't have as many as South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut or Reservoir Dogs...but it has a lot of f-bombs just the same. One of the...