At the end of January, the leadership of the Kansas City Public Schools gathered the local media and unveiled (literally), the state’s most recent accountability scores for the district. As the ...

The border wall is now a MacGuffin, and that’s the problem. A MacGuffin is a term of art in screenwriting. It’s the thing the hero wants but the bad guys are trying to get, and therefore it drives the ...

Playing through MacGuffin's Curse, I started to feel a sense of familiarity. Brawsome's top-down puzzler would often have me pushing boxes, activating switches, and looting safes. In other words, it ...

Alfred Hitchcock coined the term "MacGuffin" years ago. It's a plot device that is often a goal or a desire object that motivates the protagonist(s) and gets little to no narrative explanation. Many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "MacGuffin" is one of the most famous, most enduring plot devices in all cinema (so much so, AMC Theaters named their in-house ...

How would Trump win? The same way he won the primaries: by selling a more entertaining story.This has to terrify Clinton. She knows how to run against a normal Republican. Unfortunately for her, a ...

The unquestioned master of suspense, filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was especially fond of staging a MacGuffin, an element of the story that helped move the plot along but turned out to be insignificant ...

“MacGuffin” is the word Hitchcock used to describe a plot device that is little more than a pretext for creating action and suspense. In “Notorious,” for example, Hitchcock’s MacGuffin was fugitive ...

The border wall is now a MacGuffin, and that’s the problem. A MacGuffin is a term of art in screenwriting. It’s the thing the hero wants but the bad guys are trying to get, and therefore it drives the ...

It all starts off with a museum heist gone wrong, a cursed medallion, and one man's effort to feed and clothe his destitute family. While that sounds like the setup for some desperate Leonardo di ...