We all are afraid of something in this world, whether that may be losing a loved one, sleeping in the dark, or getting lost in the wilderness. It is the latter that Chicago-based filmmaker Patrick Brooks embraces in his...

A dismembered hand, half-buried in a pile of coal, beckons us into the sinister urban sprawl of Diao Yinan’s thrilling crime drama Black Coal, Thin Ice. The limb is one of several body parts cropping up in coal plants...

A lot can happen between 5 and 7 p.m. -- you can meet a stranger, and then agree to meet again. If you’re French and you like the chemistry of the encounter, you could even book a room at the St. Regis for a...

Ricky Gervais move over. There’s a new boss in town, and she’s bound to kick your British snark across six country borders and land you in the middle of a desert with a limited supply of staple guns -- sorry, there...

“You drive down a street one night…that’s how life goes sometimes.” If you’re a loan officer, happily married to all intents and purposes for 26 years, the road should be solid pavement beneath your wheels....

“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...