When Philomena Lee became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1951, she had very few options. Out of shame, her parents sent her to a convent in Roscrea where she worked as an indentured laundry lady...

 Very little was known about HIV or AIDS in 1985 when Ron Woodroof was diagnosed as having contracted the virus. Research was underway in order to find out how the spread of this scourge could be...

 Having never read Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and assuming that it was just another piece of vapid tween fiction, I was unprepared for the thorny moral issues at its core. I had not anti...

 Perhaps it was inevitable that an outsider would be the one who would make the film that would portray America’s Peculiar Institution for the truly horrific practice that it was. We are too fa...

 Without question, Marvel Films has fashioned an effective formula where bringing its superheroes to the big screen is concerned. Each of these adventures sport intelligently written scripts, are...

 Don’t you just laugh and laugh when you see a senior citizen unable to operate a newfangled gadget like a trunk latch in a car? Or how about when they act hip but are really out of touch with...

 As written and directed by the man who gave us Love Actually, it comes as no surprise that Richard Curtis’ new film, About Time, is long on charm and romance. Actually has seen a cult followin...

 While it might not be Citizen Kane, Brian De Palma’s 1976 version of Carrie is a film that many fans view as a landmark work where horror films are concerned. Not only was it the first big scr...

There’s an air of melancholy that hangs over Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said......

 We all like to think that we would behave in heroic fashion when put in a stressful situation. Thankfully, very few of us will find ourselves in the sort of position Captain Richard Phillips did...