In the first season of “Stranger Things,” the quartet of young men (“the party,” to use the parlance of Dungeons and Dragons) is clearly a direct homage to the show’s love of Stephen King (many of ...

Ever noticed that most blockbuster movies with an ensemble cast have exactly one woman in the main crew? She’s usually clad in leather, can drink her weight, kicks bad guys with abandon and has a bit ...

The Netflix series, like so many others, has a problem with the "Smurfette principle," but there's an easy solution to subverting it in the future. In the first season of “Stranger Things,” the ...