Inspired by Sam Raimi's latest, we analyze what makes being marooned on a desert island so cinematic in the first place.

This slow-burn tale of a tennis pro and a couple gets the low-grade melancholy of a resort town right.

Jason Statham stars in 'Shelter' from director Ric Roman Waugh, playing a former M16 agent hiding out on a Scottish island.

John Forté, a Grammy-nominated musician who saw a 14-year federal prison sentence commuted halfway through by President George W. Bush, was found dead at home.

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

KSHB 41 reporter Megan Abundis covers Kansas City, Missouri, including neighborhoods in the southern part of the city. This nursery program caught her eye online, and she wanted to hear from those ...

In other words, 2025 is the year of the depression movie—a different but not entirely unrelated phenomenon to this year’s rage-filled political satires (Eddington, One Battle After Another) and movies ...

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December means Christmas in the doggy day room at Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’ largest state prison for women. On a recent visit, there were dogs dressed in holiday sweaters or reindeer ...

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