“I want to have a video made of my house, so when it’s all gone, I’ll still remember it. So, in the future, we can watch it and say, ‘This is how we used to live.’” Such are the opening words of Puran Bhatt...

Consider the ingredients: smoking, walks in the rain or along the beach (whichever is handy), much drinking and discussion of wine, and a sudden flirtation between an older woman and a younger man. The result: another...

General Tso’s Chicken – just the name itself is enough to make most Americans salivate a bit, as they picture the crunchy, deep-fried chicken dish with its savory sweet and spicy sauce that can be found in most...

As a Midwestern kid, my imagination ran wild with what, to me, seemed the end of the rainbow: Coney Island’s seashore, the legendary boardwalk, human oddities, roller coasters, and a Nathan’s Famous frankfurter...

In his 1956 memoir, Christian Dior and I, the founder of the House of Dior declared that he hated “sudden change.” But it was his undeniably abrupt break with women’s post-World War II fashion that elevated Dior...

Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur opens on a deserted Parisian street, the camera meandering through the front doors of a rundown theater as rain pounds and thunder booms. It’s a telling entrance into the electric...

In the short time she’s been in the acting business, Anna Anissimova has already shared the big screen with notable names, including Rachel Weisz, Heather Graham and John Stamos. The 5'8" brunette began her career as...

It’s hard to come up with a single adjective to sum up Mark Ryan; he’s an actor, yes, but also a sword master, director, singer, writer, and fight choreographer. He does archery, horseback riding, and was in the...

Of Horses and Men (Icelandic: Hross i oss) is a close observation of village life in Iceland, but it’s also much more than that. A portrait of people, animals and the dramas they share, it uses tragedy and comedy to...

Detective, sheriff, lieutenant, U.S. Marshal, corrections officer -- all of these titles fall into the realm of civil service and all of them have been portrayed on television and film by Michael Harney. Chances are,...