Summer is the perfect time to read those long books you can’t commit to during the school year — Game of Thronesor Crime and Punishment — but it’s also the perfect time to read books with a...

Let it be known that I am searching for that special someone: that person who is unafraid to don his best party clothes on Friday and Saturday nights, who is polite and charming, who can dance the night...

5/5 stars I don’t mean to diminish the educational and cultural merit of the National Museum of the American Indian, but I feel it is my duty to highlight the absolute best part of this institution:...

3/5 stars There’s something about water parks that makes everyone nostalgic. The Way, Way Back, directed and written by Nat Faxonand Jim Rash, tells the story of Duncan’s (Liam James) coming...

4.5/5 stars From director Gore Verbinski and producer JerryBruckheimer comes an adventure story fit to follow Pirates of the Caribbean: The Lone Ranger. The film’s basic cowboys and Indians...

I’m not a comedy buff. Gun to my head, I would say that my favorite comedians are regulars on “Saturday Night Live,” and I’m more apt to watch a rom-com than something on Comedy Central....

4/5 stars Most White House action movies stretch the boundaries of reason, sacrificing the plausibility of a White House takeover for entertainment value. But Roland Emmerich’snewest doomsday...

One of the benefits of spending a summer in Southeast Asia is that there is a plethora of places close by to explore. While it would take four hours to travel from Georgetown to New York by car, trips...

As much as I absolutely adore the X-Men characters, particularly Wolverine, I was skeptical when I heard director James Mangold (3:10 to Yuma; Girl, Interrupted; Walk the Line) was making another...

4/5 stars $$ After watching the video for “Gangnam Style,” I knew that Koreans know how to have a good time. What I didn’t know was how delicious their food is. Honey Pig is a small...

On the rare occasion that William Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” comes up in conversation, most people think of some sort of adaptation, whether it’s an awkward effort by a...

Kanye West has gone mad. But, luckily for us, genius tends to border madness, at least in the music industry, and that can lead to some pretty great music. Yeezus is spectacular, strange and extravagant,...