As Saturn’s south pole slips into its long winter, so does the active southern region of Enceladus, nicknamed the Tiger Stripes, bid farewell to the Sun for the next 15 years. The latest flyby of Enceladus by Cassini - the E-8 flyby - provided the most...

Ricky Gervais’s The Invention of Lying is a movie based on a brilliant central idea with mixed results. In a world otherwise like our own, no one has the capacity to lie or even to conceive of the concept of lying. Since all fiction is a lie, actors in...

“AWAY TO PHOENIX” appears in bold white letters on a black background 20 minutes into the movie Away We Go as Burt and Verona embark on their cross-country voyage to find a new place to live. While the titles, and the cast of crackpot friends and...

Nick Hornby, whose novels (About a Boy, High Fidelity, Fever Pitch (actually a memoir of sorts)) deal with men struggling to reconcile their desire to remain living the life of a teenager with the realities of life as an adult, wrote the screenplay of...

It’s hard to turn on the television or pass by a multiplex these days without seeing an ad for a show or movie featuring vampires. There must be something about vampires that has some fundamental and relatively broad appeal. Although vampires have...