Opinion

Curious about what director Ang Lee has been up to lately, Sand and Bernie get in line for the first area showing of "Life of Pi."

Author Adam Johnson takes the reader behind the secrecy of North Korea in his novel "The Orphan Master's Son."

Wearing their Steven Spielberg Fan Club hats, Bernie and Sand brave the first big winter storm to see "Lincoln" in the theater.

Barbara Kingsolver's newest novel, Flight Behavior," explores the impact of global warming and the divide between science and religion.

Can the latest Bond film redeem the dreadful mess that was "Quantum of Solace?" Bernie is eager to see, and Sand would rather accompany him to watch "Skyfall" than stay home and scrub potatoes.

Denzel Washington stars in this gripping tale of the wreckage following an in-flight mechanical failure of a passenger jet.

Wendy Robards reviews the novel "The Lighthouse Road," by Peter Geye.

Made curious about an astonishing lack of promotion, Bernie and Sand attend the first area screening of "Cloud Atlas."

Two daughters of a bigamist compete for their father's love in this novel "Silver Sparrow," by Tayari Jones.

Woman are dying, murdered by what appears to be a serial killer stalking the streets of Boston ... Hank Phillippi Ryan's novel "The Other Woman" takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of tension and mystery.

A couple recovering from tragedy find a baby washed up in a boat. In keeping the child as their own, how will they work their way through the moral obligation to find the child's mother? "The Light Between Oceans" is M.L. Stedman's debut novel.

Wendy Robards reviews the first book in Ken Follett's "Century Trilogy" -- "Fall of Giants."

Drawn by Bruce Willis and a new time travel story, the Pilarski Duo pack up the popcorn and hit the movies for "Looper."

A soldier returns home after service in the Korean War, emotionally scarred, in this novel "Home" by Toni Morrison.

Sand and Bernie order popcorn, and to go with this movie, request that it be served with extra guts on it.

Wendy Robards reviews the crime genre-twisting novel "The Murder of Halland" by Pia Juul.

An unsolved murder from the early part of the twentieth century is the center of Louise Erdrich's stunning novel "The Plague of Doves."

At last, a movie about writers! Now we'll see some sweating over a keyboard, some agonizing about the pacing of a plot ... won't we?

Three Indian women find their lives changed, and their reality far from the dreams they had when they were young friends together in this novel by Thrity Umrigar.

"Gary Oldman is in it! We have to go see 'Lawless!'" That's what we said, and that's what we did ...

Laura Lippman draws the reader into the world of prostitution, murder, and -- motherhood -- in her novel, "And When She Was Good."

Elizabeth Haynes shows just how easy it is for a woman to get caught up in a domestic violence situation in her novel, "Into the Darkest Corner."

Wendy Robards awards a five-star rating to Rachel Joyce for her novel, "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry."

Promising themselves a reward of ten pounds of popcorn, Sand and Bernie trundle off to see the remake of the Schwarzenegger film "Total Recall," this time starring Colin Farrell.

Chris Cleave brings his flawed and struggling characters together at the Olympics speed cycling event in his latest novel, "Gold."

A woman who marries a "Buffalo Soldier" in a one-year deal to gain homesteading land faces plainsland difficulties her city life never imagined in this novel of hardship and fulfillment by Ann Weisgarber.

Steve Sem-Sandberg's massive historical novel "The Emperor of Lies" examines the lives of Jewish people in the ghetto of Lodz.

We've been waiting for this movie since 2008 -- how many years is that in bat years?

Set against the backdrop of World War I, John Boyle's novel "The Absolutist" explores the morality of war and the lives of two men who fought.

Allan Cole, Jr. puts together a series of essays by "poets, prophets, and preachers" in "The Spiritual Life."