It's been said before, but it's worth saying again: Stanley Kubrick was way ahead of his time. Upon a recent viewing of "2001: A Space Odyssey," we...
The iconic ending to the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" is meant to raise a lot of questions. Questions like, what happens to that bone that gets thrown...
Every day, hundreds of thousands of us go aloft, trusting our lives to hold up beneath us. It sears us still to think of those for whom things went another way.
For his part, director Paul Verhoeven joyously showcases ultra-violence in Total Recall, sticking it in the audience's face. Indeed, the entire milieu of the film is as downbeat as it is shot through with glee.
We try not to ask much of you, dear readers, but if you've never taken our movie-going advice before, do this much: see Beasts of the Southern Wild, t...
My cell phone is an idiot. It's a straight-up, dingbat dumb-ass. It can't do anything, except make phone calls, and has no competency to tell me where...
WASHINGTON -- Middle school teacher Yvonne Mason thought she was prepared for anything in her classroom. Then the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 20...
The smoke still rose, still boiling, the dead still lying in their thousands. There is not an actor in the world that could effectively play a part in such a scene.
NEW YORK -- On September 11, 2001, the financial services industry suffered heavy fatalities when New York's World Trade Center was destroyed by two h...
In late 2001 we decided we needed a year-end issue.
Taxpayers with income of more than $1 million for 2011 would still receive on average a tax cut of about $6,300 compared with what they would have pai...
iPod wasn't the first portable MP3 player. But the others were bulky, slow, and ugly. What Jobs was offering was tantamount to magic.
Instead of focusing on books that were published this year, how about focusing on years that have been published as books?
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made th...
When historians update the history of the United States and ponder when we lost our way and punted the mantle of global supremacy to China, they'll conclude this past decade was the turning point.
Beck wants this country to return to the values it held on 9/12/2001. As someone who was in New York on 9/11 (and 9/12) I remember those values being terror and a profound grief.
On issue after issue, Obama is acting like he is soon to run for re-election, instead of being a president with a massive mandate still only months into his administration.
Obama's election as president has changed America and can also make it a far better nation, one that truly embraces the ideals that motivated our founding fathers.
Headlines in newspapers across the Arab and Islamic World proclaimed that the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad was a "warning" to Pakistan's...
Turns out that Americans are not much different at all from the killers, the dictators and the fanatics we decry.
"Backlash terrorism" is not considered a crime, but it should be. Including when TV talk show hosts are accused of supporting terrorism by sporting "jihadi chic" clothing.
