This year’s annual pantomime at Reconnect Howden Park is The Wizard of Oz, written by Sam Stuart Fraser and Reece McInroy. There’s a storm brewing in Livingston and Dorothy (Jen Cassidy) finds herself ...

WHITEWATER, Wis. (WTVO) — A Loves Park man accused of killing college gymnast Kara Welsh is set to stand trial for murder. Former UW-Whitewater wrestler, Chad Richards, 24, of Loves Park, will have ...

Creative mastermind Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” films have reinvigorated the ensemble murder mystery. As clever as they are entertaining, 2019’s “Knives Out” and 2022’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out ...

When I was in my early teens, I was both a devout churchgoer and an avid reader of mysteries. One of my favorite writers was P.D. James, whose Anglican faith informed her fiction in subtle ways. For ...

My female students at the University of Virginia are worried about the state of the opposite sex. The women who take my “sociology of family” class tell of brothers living in their parents’ basements, ...

Edgar Wright’s newest film, “The Running Man,” is an enjoyable action flick with very little beneath the surface. Adapted from the Stephen King novel of the same name, the film stays true to King’s ...

A small Texas town finds itself under stealth assault in Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman’s supernatural-mystery feature. Her brother Lucas (William Magnuson) has called Lynn from their late parents’ ...

Was a freelance photographer intentionally left out of the famous Vietnam War photo of “Napalm Girl”? By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, ...

Rian Johnson is fascinated by stories and how they work. You’d have to be in order to make films like Johnson’s Benoit Blanc mysteries, which are at their core elaborate metaphors for how to tell a ...

At this point, L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz is better known for its adaptations than the core text. MGM’s 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, continues to inspire countless films ...

Stumbling from the start and never finding its footing, "The Running Man" is an incoherent dystopian sci-fi action blunder that fumbles what was fun about 1987's original and has nothing fresh to say ...