McConaughey better than ever in 'Dallas'
Saturday, 16 November 2013, 12:57
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The best parts of "Dallas Buyers Club" are of Matthew McConaughey, as HIV-positive Texas man Ron Woodroof, bucking like a bull in a Dallas hospital he refuses to let hold...
Kooky 'Free Birds' fun, but flat
Saturday, 16 November 2013, 12:46
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Every year about this time, millions of turkeys are fattened up so American households can chow them down. But in "Free Birds," two brave turkeys make it their mission to travel back in time...
'Dallas 1963' paints pix of city twisted by anger
Friday, 15 November 2013, 12:44
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
"Dallas 1963" (Twelve), by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis "Dallas 1963" by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis provides a chilling portrait of a city terrified by...
Book tracks Iranian-American family's year in Iran
Thursday, 14 November 2013, 12:43
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
"The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran" (Doubleday), by Hooman Majd Hooman Majd's book about spending a year in Iran with his family...
Europeana’s ‘big canvas’ at the National Book Fest inaugurated
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 18:23
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Europeana’s stand was inaugurated by Hon. Stefan Buontempo, Parliamentary Secretary for Research, Innovation, Youth and Sport at the official launch of the National Book Fest, last Tuesday, 12th...
Book celebrates StoryCorps' 10-year anniversary
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 12:41
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
"Ties That Bind: Stories of Love & Gratitude From the First Ten Years of StoryCorps" (The Penguin Press), by Dave Isay Ten years ago this month a small sound studio opened in...
Author traces harrowing US nuclear near misses
Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 12:30
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
"Command and Control" (The Penguin Press), by Eric Schlosser Three days after John. F. Kennedy's inauguration, a B-52 went into an uncontrolled spin above North Carolina,...
'The Goldfinch' is a tale of art and loss
Friday, 8 November 2013, 12:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
"The Goldfinch" (Little, Brown & Co.), by Donna Tartt This absorbing novel begins when an ordinary excursion to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City by 13-year-old...
'Swingland' offers peek into kinky sex underworld
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 11:59
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
"Swingland: Between the Sheets of the Secretive, Sometimes Messy, but Always Adventurous Swinging Lifestyle" (Touchstone), by Daniel Stern Sexual healing comes in all forms. In...
Characters are well drawn in new Pelecanos novel
Wednesday, 6 November 2013, 11:58
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
"The Double" (Little, Brown and Co.), by George Pelecanos Spero Lucas joined the Marines, got shipped off to Iraq, fought house-to-house in Fallujah and came home in one piece to...