Review: ‘Heli’ ★★★★
"Heli" is a stunning piece of filmmaking. It's a hypnotic, starkly beautiful, often disturbing drama that puts a working-class Mexican family in the cross hairs of its country's drug war....
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Review: ‘Miss Lovely’ ★★
The Indian film "Miss Lovely" sets Bollywood's enduring good brother-versus-bad brother theme against the backdrop of the underground grindhouse filmmaking industry of 1980s Mumbai. Just don't mistake the film for...
2014 NBA mock draft: Let the chaos begin
Two screws, one foot, zero predictability. The top of the NBA Draft looked like a sure thing to forecast a week ago (always a dangerous statement), the first few picks...
NFL removes cap on proposed concussion settlement with retired players
The proposed NFL concussion settlement is back in the hands of a federal judge — and this time there's no cap on how much the league will be required to...
2014 NBA mock draft: Let the chaos begin
Two screws, one foot, zero predictability. The top of the NBA Draft looked like a sure thing to forecast a week ago (always a dangerous statement), the first few picks...
Thomas Jefferson’s wine
In a garden beside rows of fruit trees and vegetables, grapes ripen on a sun-dappled mountainside. A few yards away, visitors snake their way through Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home. Even...
Nothing like gladiator school for family mayhem
It's not often you step out of a chauffeured Mercedes and cheerfully answer "yes" when asked if you are "Ready to die?" On a recent visit to Rome, my son,...
Star-spangled anniversary
As about 50 eighth-graders from New Jersey gathered around, Elizabeth White unzipped a large duffel bag. "It's coiled like a big snake in there," said White, a park ranger. The...
Can you fake sexual satisfaction? New study thinks not
Meg Ryan did it so convincingly — and hilariously — in "When Harry Met Sally." Cynthia Nixon pulled it off with panache in "Sex and the City." But should you...