GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — We may have had three college football games this past weekend, but for much of the country, this weekend is the official start of the season, with most teams in action ...

When Star Wars: Episode IX ends, there probably won’t be a post-credits scene hinting at the future of the series. In fact, if the rumors are to be believed, Star Wars doesn’t actually have a future, ...

Ed-tech intrigue. Coercion. Amnesia. Villainy. Surprise endings. Described like this, education technology sure begins to feel rather Hitchcock-ian. Or perhaps that's the movie playing in my head ...

About a million years ago, give or take a millennium, I promised to discuss MacGuffins. Most of you clued-up filmy types will know that "MacGuffin" is a catch-all term to describe the mystical object ...

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 ...

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 ...

The MacGuffin storytelling trope, in which characters chase an object whose sole purpose is to drive the plot, is usually worthy of an eye roll. The object’s unimportance is painfully obvious to 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 ...

As coined by Hitchcock, a MacGuffin is an object that drives the plot of a story forward — even if it’s intrinsically meaningless. Often, it’s the object everybody wants to get their hands on. Like a ...