A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.

The second of the two films adapted from J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel begins at the place where the first left us hanging:…

The King's Speech is book-ended by two speeches. The first is a disaster, a deeply humiliating experience for Prince Albert, Duke of York…

When newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) meets homeless, schizophrenic Juilliard-dropout Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. (Jamie…

We imagine war is tough. We know it puts great strain on soldiers. But is war a drug? Even ‘the supreme drug of human…

In 1959, the children of a new elementary school bury a time capsule containing their ideas of what they think the world will be like in…

Reviews of some of Joanne Harris' novels, including Chocolat.

A New Testament scholar reviews Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.