This means you can get away with inventing a fictional President for whatever film or series you want without shattering the audience’s suspension of disbelief—making up a member of the ...

Every great story needs a great setting. For years, viewers have turned to television and film to find escape in fictional worlds. Some of the best film and TV universes feature meticulous world ...

Witch-centric media like “Hocus Pocus,” “American Horror Story: Coven” and “Agatha All Along” may show fictional sorceresses brewing potions in cauldrons, making soul-sacrificing pacts ...

These elements of the show are fiction, and because of that, they have drawn the most attention and criticism. Douglas Huffman, another expert consultant for the scripts, reminds us that “The ...

The journey hasn’t been easy. A new kind of disaster fiction is serving as scenario planning for real global crises. Call it the apocalyptic systems thriller.

Self’s new novel, about a woman struggling against her confined role in the 1950s, is based on his late mother’s journals.

At the heart of new TV show The Franchise is fictional movie Tecto: Eye of the Storm, the latest installment in a huge superhero series. As a satire of franchise moviemaking, we follow the ...

As ill-fated coffee shop burglar Pumpkin in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” Tim Roth knows the truth about a privileged piece of movie mythology. “We tend to know only as much as [our ...

In 1993, Jolie made her debut as a star in the science fiction film Cyborg 2. She made a mark on the Hollywood industry by starring in TV movies, Gia and Girl, Interrupted for which she earned ...

Samuel L. Jackson hasn’t forgotten his lines from Pulp Fiction. In honor of the film’s 30th anniversary, the actor posted a clip of himself reciting the Ezekiel 25:17 Bible verse, a notable ...

It’s true, the movies in Tarantino’s eclectic oeuvre – including the Oscar-nominated director’s masterpiece "Pulp Fiction," which is celebrating its 30th anniversary – range from decent ...

While they have their differences, in a startling number of ways, Harris and Katharine Vaughn Powers, my fictional president, are remarkably similar. They share the same energy, joie de vivre and ...