What do The Searchers, Joker and Young Adult all have in common, and why are we even talking about The Searchers, when Shane is right there and so much better?

The Grapes of Wrath tells the tragedy of a generation through one family. How does it achieve that? And what makes the character of Ma Joad so likeable and moving?

Some of the most memorable films are successful because they managed to flip their genre on its head. THE WILD BUNCH achieved this by attacking the assumed values of the western, creating a western unlike any one before.

How do you create suspense in a film that moves backwards? Nolan’s ingenious solution to that is what makes Memento so fascinating and effective.

The first film (technically last) on the WGA’s best screenplays list teaches us how to make even a Nazi into a sympathetic character, and why getting drunk can cause a lot of suspense.

You might not expect it from a relationship drama, but Baumbach employs a mechanism of Hitchockian suspense at a crucial moment in the story, and it surprisingly, perfectly fits into the story’s overall design and theme.