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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cheating is a worldwide phenomenon, and is a challenge even here in the United States, but in Asia it has reached near-crisis levels. Last year, riots broke out when teachers at a school in Zhongxiang ...

Gamerman delves into these issues, and the often-colorful characters driving the story. There’s Jarrett and his dutiful daughter Jami; Marty Wilde, a volatile and eccentric wind prospector; Russell ...

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 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 ...

I started to scan the front of the file. It had the usual paperclip with the picture of the suspect attached. I looked at their photo. They looked somewhat dazed, as though they didn’t know what they ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...