Reviews

In her best-selling memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, author Elizabeth Gilbert wrote about the first months of her romantic involvement with Felipe, an older, Brazilian man she fell in love with while staying in Bali.

With the death last month of Dodge City native Dennis Hopper, the American cinema lost one of its great rebel actors and directors.

"The Philosopher's Stone" is a two-CD collection of outtakes, alternate versions and other "orphan" songs by Van Morrison that, for one reason or another, didn't make it onto one of his regular albums.

Because of my interest in photography (and teaching it to teenagers) I found this book a light, relaxing read. The Contact Sheet edited by Steve Crist, serves as a window into a photographers work. For every photo that is published or printed, there are hundreds that are not. In this book, the reader gets to see all the photos that were taken, the photographers notes and marks on the contact sheet.

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Directed by Doris Dörrie

Have you ever had one of those moments when you needed all of your willpower not to smack someone upside the head? One Good Dog is the story of what happens when one man’s willpower fails and someone does get smacked. The most important day in Adam March’s life begins with a failed alarm clock, only gets worse, and culminates with a furious slap to his secretary. Predictably, his career and personal life immediately unravel during the ensuing legal battles.

The king's mistress is dead. Who killed her? A jealous queen? A scheming noble hoping to foment civil war? Or was it an unfortunate accident? The stakes are high, and so the King sends his foremost medical investigator to unravel the mystery: an investigator who just happens to be not only a doctor and forensic scientist but also, most unusually for 12th-century England - a woman.

Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell

In Rosemary’s Baby Roman Polanski and cast deliver not just a great “scary movie”, but a great movie. The pervasive feel of the film is paranoia tinged with the eternal presence of darkness.