T. C. Boyle grew up in Peekskill, New York, didn’t go past the Hudson River until he was 21, and made his first trip “out West” — to Buffalo — to meet his future in-laws. But Boyle quickly made up for ...

NEW YORK — On a weekend that Hollywood was largely content to cede to football and late-summer barbecues, Resident Evil: Afterlife led the box office. The 3-D horror film earned $27.7 million over the ...

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As the Bush administration moves America toward a permanent state of war against an undefined and therefore unconquerable enemy — war that is leaching the country’s coffers, grinding up young soldiers ...

Despite the repeated and increasingly exasperated attempts of a lifelong best friend, I cannot quite experience Evil Dead as a “fun” film. It’s the very thing that grates on my nerves that also drives ...

“This is some damn fine coffee you got here in Twin Peaks. And some damn good cherry pie. But I have to tell you something, sheriff: Last night, I had a dream in which a dancing midget talked backward ...

The unsettling tone is established early in Call of Duty 4, when the president of a Middle Eastern nation is publicly executed on the world stage, and you, the player, experience the deposed leader’s ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Horror film fans and action series buffs recently packed this base’s Officers’ Club for an hourlong appearance by “Evil Dead” star Bruce Campbell, who brought his long-running ...

There’s a line early in the opening story of Anna Enquist’s fine new collection that chills the reader. In more ways than one. It’s January in the Netherlands, 1849. A man and his two sons are ice ...

From Rosemary’s Baby to Children of the Corn, wicked children in cinema have been giving audiences the creeps for decades. Midnite Movie Mamacita and Madcap Theaters director Andrea Beesley-Brown ...

When you're young and naïve, you put on a movie and expect the good guys to win, not unreasonably. The overwhelming majority ...

A suggestion to those who’ve put off watching the year’s most wrenching and essential film: Before rolling the feature, first watch the documentary in which the families of those who died on the plane ...