(Originally written for OU’s Intro to Creative Writing class)

“I know what you think I am. What you think I did,” I say to the man with the gun. “You think I wanted him dead. That all I cared about was the cash. Well you’re dead wrong. Wants and facts are two different things, and the fact is the sun went down on all my wants that day.”

His cigar’s presence is strong, clinging to the air like a wino to the bottle. The gun is what concerns me. It’s the dog and I’m the mailman; before this is all over, it’ll bite. Tale as old as time…

(Originally written for OU’s Horror Writing class)

My whole life I’ve been alone at the end. Bloodstained and grief-stricken. Center-frame, music up, laughing or crying or smoking, it has always been my face under a ton of Karo syrup and Red 40 food dye…

Awards season — like everything else in the era of COVID-19 — will look very different this year.

The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony will air Sunday, April 25 and will be entirely in person according to the Oscars website, but will be split in location between venues about eight miles apart in Los Angeles.

“Parasite” is a nearly perfect movie that deserves every award it is a contender for. However, it does not need any awards to prove itself.

“I heard you paint houses,” Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa says on one end of a phone line, almost as a question.

“Yes. Yes, sir, I... I do,” a middle-aged Frank Sheeran responds, unaware of exactly where this road of “house painting” will lead him and what it will cost him.

Murder mysteries permeate modern culture — characters like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and even Batman are all world class detectives who provide thrilling stories of deception, mystery and intrigue. But what happens when the author of such murder mysteries is found dead in his private estate under questionable circumstances?

The coming-of-age genre is a style of film that exists to ensure young people that everything will be alright. Coming-of-age films, however, do not typically center around a 10-year-old Nazi whose imaginary best friend is Adolf Hitler.

That is, until “Jojo Rabbit” (2019)…

The video game character Mega Man is known for saving the world. Lesser known is the role the character played in saving Raheem Jarbo’s life.

Jarbo, an American rapper known under the stage name Mega Ran, said the reason he is alive to perform music today is due in large part to video games, and he even plans to include the statement in the first lines of his autobiography…