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True Story? Men Prefer 'Chick Flicks' When They Are Explicitly Fictionalized ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2008) — Characterized by a heart-tugging plot, emotional melodrama is a subtype of dramatic entertainment that fosters deep emotional reactions on the part of the consumer. Often labelled "chick-flicks," "tearjerkers," or "human interest stories," the importance of this form of entertainment is underscored by the popularity and success of movies like Titanic and the "Oprah Winfrey Show." However, despite the apparent popularity of melodramatic entertainment, scant academic attention has been paid to the genre. Now, new research examines emotional melodrama and finds a significant difference between...

RING IN THE OLD! - Mark's New Year Movie Vault We’ve come to that time of year when we critics advise you to skip New Year’s Eve and rent a movie instead. Better yet, rent a New Year movie, for it’s a curious fact that almost any film about December 31st somehow takes on the same depressing, desperate quality as the night itself. The great exception is Ocean’s Eleven (1960), in which the Rat Pack plot a five-casino heist in Vegas. That’s a jollier way than most to spend New Year’s Eve, and, as readers may recall, I’m especially fond...

I'm a liberal but growing increasingly disenchanted with the left. I'm also a movie fan. I'm looking for a list of the movies most beloved by conservatives, movies that support conservative ideals, films that make a good argument for conservatism. I figured this was the place to go. If you were making such a list, what would be on it? Rambo? Red Dawn? What?

Man cannot live by Cameron Diaz alone. Sometimes we need big guns, fast cars, dumb jokes, and huge explosions. You got a problem with that? Culturally, guys often get the short end of the stick. Most books are bought by women, the music industry caters to teenagers, and when was the last time an art museum had an exhibit on nitro-burning funny cars? But the movies have always been good to us. The first feature film, 1904's The Great Train Robbery, was full of trains, guns, and chases -- guy friendly from start to finish. And Hollywood has been in...

If this is not the right place to post this, please forgive me. With this being Labor Day, there are a lot of great war movies showing, (except Saving Private Ryan, in some cities.) I was just wondersing what everyones favorite WWII movies were.