Two weeks before its theatrical release, Pixar's 10th feature film, Up, shaped up to be yet another in a long string of hits. Thanks to an early press tour and a headlining spot at the Cannes Film...

Sometimes Hollywood does more than entertain. The Soloist is based on a Los Angeles homeless man, and it stays pretty close to the true life story. The film counts the cost of helping a seriously ...

The latest installment of the Terminator franchise may find itself a victim of its own success. The first film, released in 1984, drew audiences not only for its groundbreaking special effects but...

Con artists! explosions! Beautiful women and dashing men! These things do not an entire movie make! Try telling that to Rian Johnson, though. The writer/director is very early in his career, but h...

Not since Prince became "the Artist Formerly Known As Prince" has a recording artist's nomenclature posed as big a challenge as Yusuf's. Who? Yusuf-aka Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, aka Ste...

The folksinger Pete Seeger turned 90 in May, an occasion marked by a Madison Square Garden birthday party at which dozens of his legatees feted him-Bruce Springsteen, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, and ...

Jonathan Edwards and Sam Adams: two 18th-century Americans I'd like to interview in heaven. Two new biographies are preparing me (or you) for that opportunity. Understanding Jonathan Edward...

"I've got a big top hat and a crown of thorns, just like you know who," sang Bruton on this, his solo debut. Together with what follows ("I heard my ship is sailing in. / Lord knows she's overdue"...

Kathryn Joyce is a secular feminist alarmed about "patriarchalism" among evangelicals. She admits that most evangelicals are not homeschoolers who think all birth control is wrong, but that subset...