From Breaking Bad to Mad Men, many of the greatest television dramas have excelled as outstanding character studies.

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – On Swift Horses centers on three characters during the 1950s, and while the actors do an admirable job, the story fails to reveal any amount of depth to the characters’ ...

Every once in a while, there’s a big-budget movie worth seeing in a theater. Although the new “Oppenheimer” biopic has a liberal slant, it eschews petty, simplistic narratives aimed at deconstructing ...

It’s the sort of illuminating, illustrative scene that stands out in a curious character study — because “The Smashing ...

Bruce Springsteen‘s “Nebraska” begins with a fictionalized bit of court testimony, delivered by mass murderer Charles Starkweather to the judge who’s about to sentence him to death. “I saw her standin ...

Controversy has surrounded “The Whale,” a character study of a reclusive man hundreds of pounds overweight, with director Darren Aronofsky having to defend both the handling of the obese character and ...

One of the few scenes involving the Penguin in Matt Reeves’ 2022 superhero crime thriller “The Batman” ended up on the cutting-room floor. After a brief exchange with Selina Kyle at his nightclub, Oz ...

The jump is filmed in such chilly long shot that you very nearly wouldn’t notice it happening, if not for the brilliant aquamarine overcoat of the jumper, hurling herself from a busy pedestrian bridge ...

Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett Every once in a while, there’s a ...