So many adaptations have been done of Mark Twain’s seminal novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequels that Tom and his pal Huckleberry Finn have long since become two of American literature’s most famous characters of all time. In this way, Tom and Huck could be called the ...

This weekend at the movies will be pretty busy, with three new wide releases to lure audiences. Not one of them looks too appealing to me, though. I plan to focus on catching up with those prestige films from before Christmas that are released all at once, seemingly in an ...