If you dropped a cute kitten into Michael Mann's "Heat," would Robert De Niro have gone all soft and goo-goo eyed? Might Wesley Snipes' drug empire in "New Jack City" been brought to its knees by a...

In a new book by autism's most famous spokesperson, Temple Grandin gives credit to her mother for nudging her outside her comfort zone, and she urges today's parents to do the same for their...

Ben Watt's new chapter as singer-songwriter, an endeavor first launched before he and wife Tracey Thorn formed Everything But The Girl, offers a mature treatise on love and the passing of time....

Brian Eno combines ambient textures with droning vocals and a sterling cover of a Lou Reed tune on "The Ship," a powerfully challenging and gloomy recording that ends in bright revelation. Eno...

The questionable casting of Zoe Saldana is only one of the many problems with Cynthia Mort's limp and misjudged Nina Simone biopic "Nina." Little of the High Priestess of Soul's searing clarity of...

James McBride, best-selling author of "The Color of Water" and "The Good Lord Bird," has written a furious ode to the troubled life and legacy of the incomparable James Brown. Part appreciation,...

MADC's production 'Image of an Unknown Young Woman' is a new play by Elinor Cook directed by Philip Leone-Ganado that examines how an image can change an entire society. Whether it's a woman shot...

Teatru Manoel presents the final of this season's Wednesdays at the Manoel series with a great evening of French music performed by Pascal and Ami Rogé on 4 May at 8pm. Pascal Rogé...

Der Beobachter by Charlotte Link has been translated into Maltese by Alfred Scalpello.  The 2011 thriller starts with the identical brutal murder of two old women who live alone. The police find...

Philip Farrugia Randon   If anyone somehow doubted whether Peter Calamatta was the king of horticulture in Malta, this 216-page book certainly quells any doubt and crowns him. Dedicated...