A teenage boy named Pi, shipwrecked on his way from India to Quebec with his family and their zoo animals, spends more than half a year at sea, “sharing” a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger …

1/16/14: Please RSVP if you haven’t already. I need a final head count by tomorrow, 1/17, so that I can start nailing down venue stuff. CAN’T WAIT YOU GUYS!!1!
It’s happening: a tomato outfit, swathed in …

I have a small child who loves the Berenstain Bears and we read them over and over. The phrase below seems incorrect, but I’m not a grammar expert so I’d like to get a definitive …

When I was young, I read a couple of kids’ books that were way older than me. Probably published no later than the ’60s, possibly quite a bit earlier. A family purchased an old estate …

Guy and I are graduate students in the same program and have all the same friends. We’d been dating on-and-off for about a year and broke things off last week. If I’m honest, it was …

Despite the too-broad title — Bloody Things or …Eek! would have worked just as well — The Uninvited has a ton of potential. Jan (Marguerite Moreau of Wet Hot American Summer) suffered most of her …

I’m hoping you can help with a song that’s been stuck in my head ever since the late ’80s or early ’90s.  It’s a silly little pop song sung by a female artist, it went …

Treed by the Boxing Day tsunami, seriously injured vacationer Maria (Naomi Watts), her tween son Lucas (Tom Holland), and an equanimous mystery toddler named Daniel (Johan Sundberg) divide a can of Coke. The rest of …

Dear Nation,
Happy New Year! And welcome to your resolutions open thread: share/gut-check your resolutions; get/give support for everything from new workouts to budgeting to cookie recipes; second-guess your break-ups with Diet Coke and post-10-PM chocolate.
I’ll …

It isn’t put together very well, the story, but it has such affection for its characters, and it believes uncynically in what it’s trying to be, and it is trying to be a sad, beautiful …