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The Shawshank Redemption has earned a reputation for being one of the most popular films of all time. Despite an unimpressive performance…

Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…

Why do people do the things they do? It’s a question the world’s greatest philosophers, theologians, scientists and doctors…

A review of the film The Spiderwick Chronicles.