This snazzy sequel to Bryan Singer's comic-book smash "X-Men" is sleek and sexy, filled with delicious characters and effects. Just don't compare it to the original.

Charles Taylor reviews 'Jackie Brown' directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Forster.

New ABC books are breathing life into an old genre by making letters vanish, get lost and pop up in unexpected places.

A cons-on-the-run caper gets its charm from witty, endearing performances and uncynical affection for its characters.

If you're looking at your portfolio and cringing, don't panic yet — here's what you can do

From "cross-check" to "wind shear": A glossary of airline-speak for the curious passenger.

A Fox News poll does the handicapping.

Is it Spike Gillespie who should be restrained? Plus: Michael Lewis' bogus attack on J-schools; art should be about seeing, not theorizing.

The comic books feature a diverse range of characters, so why are the movies' protagonists predominantly white?

A marriage made in Cannes: Two notorious tabloid-fodder Yanks are showered with love on the Riviera.

While optimism may seem a sunny subject, full of hearts and flowers, it's a weapon in Susan Vaughan's hands.

Shooting the same cast for a dozen years, the "Before Sunrise" director crafts an American masterwork

Did I really want a reading group guide telling people how to read my novel?

The views that our media depict as "centrist" and "serious" are ones that are rejected by increasingly large majorities of Americans.

On its 30th anniversary, a look at Quentin Tarantino's film and its revolutionary 1970s-inflected soundtrack