J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

If we watch carefully, we can glean a good deal of wisdom from the nuanced media we consume on a daily basis. Even a simple kids' movie, like Disney's “Frozen,” has lessons to offer us as we go about ...

Finance might not seem like an exciting movie genre, but the high-stakes world of money-how it’s made, lost, and manipulated-has inspired some captivating films. However, there’s more to these stories ...

It's really hard to narrow down the past four decades of cinema into a list of eleven movies, but there are some sacrifices we have to make. With so many masterpieces having come out over the years, ...