From Johnny Depp in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" to Jamie Lee Curtis in "Halloween," horror films have been a good way for actors to cut their teeth in Hollywood. "The Gallows," opening...

The desire for a child - an occasion that should be joyful - turns into a deadly obsession in the highly stylized "A Necessary End." In the "Gone Girl" mode, author Holly Brown fashions her second...

Archbishop Square in Mdina is set to come to life on Friday 24th July when soloists from the Bavarian State Ballet of Munich and the National Theatre of Prague will be performing Romeo and...

Jake Cassar's adventures created a new phenomenon in Maltese children's literature: the excitement of awaiting the next instalment, the serialisation of a story. An entire generation of children has...

Ambrogio and Selene appear to be a stable, well-adjusted couple. Out of the goodness of their heart they adopt a boy.  Eliodoro - a transsexual. Beneath the well-to-do, comfortable veneer of...

Marcus Mumford knows his band is mainly named after himself, but he says members of the group have built a stronger trust among one another, and that's evident on their new album. "Personally...

The power of books over readers is a frequent theme in the work of Stephen King. Who can forget Annie Wilkes in "Misery," chopping off novelist Paul Sheldon's foot with an ax? "Finders...

Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard makes a powerful political and musical statement with his new E-Collective quintet on "Breathless," his first plunge as a bandleader into...

There's an early scene in "Magic Mike XXL" that hints at what this much ballyhooed sequel woulda, coulda, shoulda been. Mike Lane, played by the well nigh irresistible Channing Tatum, is alone in...

It reads like a story drawn from contemporary headlines: U.S. Navy warships deployed to the Middle East; ISIS-like beheadings and other atrocities targeted at Christians; fears in Washington about...