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 ...

--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 ...

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.

Love diving into a rich heritage of food, art and history — in a city with a cool, contemporary vibe? As the birthplace of iconic Mexican heritage including tequila, mariachi, charrería (Mexican rodeo ...

As assisted-living facilities have multiplied across the country, they’ve become increasingly competitive. Yet their radio, TV, direct mail, and social media messages all sound and look similar.

Jodi Smith lost count of the number of rum and cokes her seatmate had ordered on a recent flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Was it five? Or six? "He was a nervous flier," remembers Smith. "Old enough ...

Spanning from 1993 to the present, the Jurassic Park franchise has shaped dinosaur movies for generations, but it might be time for Universal to move on, as it seems the filmmakers are running out of ...

I wasn’t expecting a sequel to The Accountant in 2025, mainly because the original was released in 2016, and it wasn’t very good. This sequel places emphasis on the action, which is actually ...

Steven Mills, the 50-something protagonist of Andrew Porter’s new novel, The Imagined Life, is an unhappy man. Separated from his wife and rarely seeing his young son, Steven struggles to find meaning ...

The 2016 CDC Opioid Guideline seemed to make obvious sense: Americans were consuming far too many prescribed opioids. Many users of illicit opioids reported that prescribed opioids had been their ...

The Handmaid’s Tale enters its sixth and final season at a breathless pace, and if the eight episodes delivered for review are an indication, the series will end as powerfully as it began. The show ...

I am not the first, nor will I be the last, to point out Hollywood’s current exhaustive unoriginality. However, the overuse of recognizable brands has taken such a prominent role in entertainment that ...