“Girl With a Pearl Earring” Directed by Peter Webber Lions Gate Films Based on Tracy Chevalier’s bestselling novel, “Girl With a Pearl Earring” is a stunning, seductive film adaptation of the imagined story behind Johannes Vermeer’s most famous painting. Read more...

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like Hollywood is trying to ruin my holiday season. As I consciously try to see all the Oscar-contending films before the nominations so I can complain about how wrong the Academy got it this year, Focus Features released “21 Grams” right around Thanksgiving. Read more...

Although Massoud Amir Behrani (Sir Ben Kingsley), one of the main characters in “House of Sand and Fog,” and director/screenwriter Vadim Perelman have different backgrounds, they both pursue the same thing. Read more...

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A Mother’s Journey: Photographs from Orissa, India, by Tara Colburn Fowler Museum Dec. 7 to Feb. 29 Colburn set out on a journey to India to find her son, who had joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, but came back with a wealth of amazing photographs from rarely viewed parts of rural India. Read more...

Jay-Z “The Black Album” Roc-A-Fella Say it ain’t so, Hov. If the hype is to be believed, “The Black Album” will be Jay-Z’s last ““ his final claim at hip-hop’s best-ever crown before he hangs up the mic and calls it quits. Read more...

When the pumpkin pie is gone and the post-meal coffee has been drunk, it’s an awkward point in any Thanksgiving meal. Eventually the question will come, assuming everyone at your table hasn’t fallen asleep from eating too much turkey: Now what? Read more...