Unlike traditional nuclear rivalries where both sides possess declared arsenals – like India and Pakistan, which despite ...

While I don’t believe the movie plays as well in 2025 as it did at the close of the 20th century, much of Smith’s dialogue is ...

Movies that are direct follow-ups in a series of otherwise self-contained films take a risk. There’s the potential for bigger payoffs and bigger disappointments. Mission: Impossible - The Final ...

If there’s one thing the state of Montana has plenty of—aside from mountains, sheep, and big sky—it’s wind. Here’s how Amy Gamerman, longtime contributor to the Wall Street Journal and author of a new ...

In a cinematic landscape littered with bombastic action films, superhero sagas, and blood-drenched slasher flicks, dramedies about realistic characters with relatable issues are increasingly rare.

--In this short story, writer Sophia Taghizadeh crafts an alternate ending to “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe’s masterpiece about insanity, murder, and guilt. The coldness of the steel chair ...

“Jeffries Knock-Out”, photograph of the Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jeffries during the World Heavyweight Championship of 1910 — Source. Held in Jim Crow–era Nevada on the 4th of July, the 1910 World ...

Infinite twists and turns are the most surprising thing about Phillip Kurata’s new novel, The Israeli. You can never predict the plot twists. In a nutshell, to paraphrase Nat King Cole, the book is ...

Despite her insecurities, her friend Félix (Pablo Pauly) convinces her to leave France and accept a literary residency in England offered by Austen’s descendants. It doesn’t take much deduction to ...

What’s clear about the book is Kurata’s intimate knowledge of Middle Eastern mores and customs, having lived and worked in the region for a number of years. Though the action takes place in the 1960s, ...

Still, as eccentric as Cruise can be, he’s doing things in the world of filmmaking that are becoming more rare: the stunt work, the set pieces, the demolition on set. It’s easy for a movie like this ...

With that simple phrase, Jack London bound his legacy forever to boxing’s perennial expression of white resentment, the near-mythic desire for a “Great White Hope”. Although Jack Johnson was not the ...