Six months before he died, John Lennon set sail from Newport, R.I., on an ocean adventure to Bermuda that awakened his desire to make musicagain and is now being chronicled in an electronic...

Commercials director Fredrik Bond makes a promising feature debut with "Charlie Countryman" a fanciful crime-drama / romance that gratifyingly eschews strict genre...

A former top CIA official whose 33 years of service included the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the death of Osama bin Laden has a book deal.   The publisher Twelve has acquired...

The British Library has been given letters and lyrics by John Lennon under a program that accepts donations of art and cultural artifacts in place of tax.   The Arts Council said Thursday...

It seems quite apt that "The Best Man Holiday," a film about a reunion of old friends, feels just like going to an actual reunion. In ways both bad and good.   A reunion, you see,...

"A Prayer Journal" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Flannery O'Connor   Flannery O'Connor's "A Prayer Journal" is a moving glimpse of a young writer seeking to...

When Alex Gibney set out to make a movie about cyclist Lance Armstrong's 2009 Tour de France comeback, the documentarian admits he bought into the hype: The man who'd cheated death was coming...

Early last century, Juan Mamo wrote the Ulied in-Nanna Venut fl-Amerika, which, with its blunt and iconoclastic prose, risqué jokes and graphic descriptions of a low-life Malta venturing out of...

Comic book movies are increasingly, like Sandra Bullock in "Gravity," lost in space.   Following the summer's glumly bombastic "Man of Steel," which added a heavy...

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