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 ...

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 "MacGuffin" is one of the most famous, most enduring plot devices in all cinema (so much so, AMC Theaters named their in-house bars after it). The term was created by screenwriter Angus McPhail, ...

In the fall of 1939, director Alfred Hitchcock stood before Columbia University to tell a story we can only hope he invented. With a ruthless, dry delivery, Hitch spoke of two Scotsmen on a train. One ...

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 ...

Nan Glass of Hartford wonders about the term “MacGuffin.” She encountered it twice on the same day, but with two conflicting meanings and two different spellings. Her first MacGuffinization came when ...

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 ...

In theory this map will lead to the villainous Thrawn, and by extension Ezra Bridger – a missing Rebel ally. But first, the show’s heroes need to find the map, and then they have to unlock it. Then ...

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 ...

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 ...