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Near the northernmost part of the eastern seaboard of the United States, tens of thousands of American military fly in and out on their way to tours of duty or on their way home. A tiny group of people, many elderly, are there to wish every one of them well and express the gratitude of…

C.S. Lewis' Novel "The Great Divorce" will be made into a movie.

I was a bit irked several weeks ago when I heard about “Gwen,” the one-time homeless girl that makes up American Girl‘s contemporary 2009 Girl of the Year lineup. Irked not because I think that the plight of the homeless, or the attendant bullying suffered by Gwen in her story, is an inappropriate subject to…

People who watch “Family Guy” are used to a strong case of the random and bizarre. This week is no different, as we’re treated to a seemingly appropro of nothing Superfriends intro credits and two seemingly unrelated storylines (Quagmire discovers internet porn, finally; and Peter falls in love with a Kathy Ireland cutout from the…

In this featurette for the upcoming CBS Films movie “Extraordinary Measures,” inspired by the true story of John Crowley, Crowley himself (played by Brendan Fraser in the film) talks about leaving his corporate job behind for a quest to find a cure for the life-threatening genetic disease affecting his children. The film also stars Harrison…

A new documentary on the Rwandan genocide is available on DVD.

David Letterman performed a ten-minute comedy routine last evening about how he’d been blackmailed. The punchline was that he had indeed had sex with female employees, the scuttlebutt that his blackmailer, reportedly a producer for the CBS show “48 Hours,” had threatened to reveal. “The answer is yes, I had sex with women who worked…

We’ve all heard it before–J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series promotes witchcraft, dark magic, Satanic practices, etc. etc. etc. Some concerned parents have even advocated to ban “Harry Potter” books in the past, though Banned Books Week celebrates the reading of these villainized books. Now BBC News reports the reason why Rowling was never given the Presidential Medal…

The case of Roman Polanski continues to evolve–not in its legal particulars, which have only become more complicated with Polanski’s hiring of the politically influential D.C. lawyer Reid Weingarten–but in the public perception of Polanski’s arrest, which says a lot about who we are as a society. As with many tabloid-driven stories, the Polanski affair…

Paulist Productions releases a new documentary on forgiveness.
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