Idiot Plot News Today

In The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, it's not walkers or the Civil Republic Military that pose the greatest threat at the moment, it's a dreaded story trope as old as time.

Pixar gets deeper into the heavily-flogged-premise game with this story about anthropomorphic fire, air, water and earth people.

Pixar gets deeper into the heavily-flogged-premise game with this story about anthropomorphic fire, air, water and earth people.

All 27 Pixar films, ranked from worst to best, including the latest film, ‘Elemental,’ now in theaters. With all the movies streaming on Disney+, you can rewatch and judge them for yourselves — which is best: ‘Toy Story’? ‘Wall-E’? ‘Finding Nemo’?

Chad Collins does a deep dive into the phenomenon of "Halloween" fan films, interviewing several creatives involved.

A look back at Roger Ebert's list ranking the Top Ten Films of 2006.

"Hello-Goodbye" is an awfully dumb movie, no doubt about it, but it offers an interesting variation on our old friend, the Idiot Plot. An Idiot Plot, you'll recall, is a plot that requires everyone in it to be an idiot. Otherwise someone would do the obvious, the crisis would be solved, and the movie would be over in 13 minutes flat.

"The Ugly Ones" is a shoddy piece of merchandise intended, no doubt, to cash in on the popularity of sado-masochistic Westerns.

"Nothing to Lose'' is a five-peat: Buddy Movie, Fish Out of Water Movie, Road Movie, Mistaken Identity Movie and Corporate Espionage Movie. Okay, so maybe the fifth one isn't a genre of its own yet, but it sure seemed familiar when the heroes were creeping around the halls of power, eluding security guards.

It's time again to bring out of retirement our old friend the Idiot Plot. This is the movie plot, you will recall, so constructed that everyone in the movie has to be a complete idiot or the story will be resolved in 10 minutes flat. Since feature films last two hours or thereabouts, Idiot Plots have been a godsend to more than one project. "Hennessy" is another.It involves an Irish demolitions expert (Rod Steiger) who becomes deranged when his wife and daughter are accidentally ki...