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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "MacGuffin" is one of the most famous, most enduring plot devices in all cinema (so much so, AMC Theaters named their in-house ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Playing through MacGuffin's Curse, I started to feel a sense of familiarity. Brawsome's top-down puzzler would often have me pushing boxes, activating switches, and looting safes. In other words, it ...

Is there a genre more resilient than the puzzler? Seriously, decades pass, fortunes wain, oceans rise and platformers give way to shooters, yet puzzle games are always just quietly getting on with ...

Whether it’s Maltese Falcons, Tesseracts, or Crystal Skulls, Hollywood just can’t quit MacGuffins — and for good reason. First popularized by master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, “MacGuffin” is the term ...

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 ...