Music has undoubtedly long been used by people as a source of inspiration and motivation, especially in the field of sports psychology.
My affinity towards the melancholy sparked my curiosity to understand if there is actually a psychological explanation as to why we gravitate towards sad films.
HBO's smash-hit series 'Euphoria' doesn't pull any punches in its approach to our youth's struggles with mental health, abuse, and drug usage. But does its explicitness actually trigger more people than it helps.
Creative burnout can be truly difficult to put a finger on so we've put together some tips on how to recognize its symptoms, and methods to reignite your creative spark when it does go out.
Let's take a look at understanding the building blocks of creativity and how to find inspiration when you’re stuck in an endless loop of frustration and artistic blocks.
'What About Bob?' was a much more subversive movie than what studios were typically churning out at the time. And while it's 1993's 'Groundhog Day' that's been endlessly analyzed, this Bill Murray film from two years earlier holds up nearly as well.
What makes iconic antihero characters such as Travis Bickle, Severus Snape, Walter White, and Wanda Maximoff more appealing than traditional heroes?
From Hallmark to Netflix, let’s take a walk through the history of holiday flicks, its huge commercial appeal, and the psychology as to why we crave these stories time and again.
Juliet Landau, famous for her role as Drusilla in 'Buffy', took some time to chat with us about her feature length directorial debut, 'A Place Among the Dead', which seeks to deconstruct the nature of the narcissist through an acutely apt metaphor of vampire mythology.
In the era of subscription services, we are given unlimited access to a massive library of content, yet we still find ourselves defaulting back to the same ones over and over again. Well, there's actually a science behind this behavior.
One of the most distinct archetypes in Jung’s work was the Jester, a powerful character known for manipulating the “system” and “authority.” A fact that becomes pertinent when viewed through the lens of the recent 'Joker' movie.
Our growing appreciation for culinary arts through the years has paved the way for its success in mainstream media and ultimately became a staple in numerous TV shows and films, especially in today’s modern food culture and society.
We’re just three months into 2022, yet back-to-back-to-back hit shows about real-life con artists have captured the zeitgeist. What is it that we love about despicable people?
With the rise of streaming came the universal adoption of "the algorithm." Meant to ease the pain of endless options, but not always to the benefit of the filmmaker...
Whether it's the just released 'Don't Look Up' or 2011's 'Contagion', the record viewing numbers reveal one thing: there's just something about the end of the world. What is it that keeps drawing us in to watch the world collapse?
How often have you found yourself scrolling through the nearly endless amount of content on Netflix just to give up 30-minutes in and go back to the show you've watched for the 100th time. Let's examine why.
It’s impossible to read 'The Plague' from the vantage point of 2021 without seeing the stark similarities between Camus’ imagined affliction and our all-too-real pandemic, and not merely in terms of sickness. It’s a matter of Nazis, too.
'Stranger Things' proves to be a complex deconstruction of fact and façade between two opposing world hegemonies, while its Upside Down parallel, represents America’s haunting consequences.
'The Undoing' has managed to capture the zeitgeist, and the curiosity and intrigue compelled me to get to the bottom of the hype and why its finale led to mixed reviews from audiences worldwide.
We sit down with Jack Grisham, of T.S.O.L. punk rock fame, to discuss his new short film '288,' which takes a hard look at child sex abuse.
The study of film and its effect on human development has been a hotly debated and ever-growing field over the years, but it was Arthur P. Shimamra who coined the term "psychocinematics" to examine the way films affect our mental processes.
