This weekend marks a hardly known Federal holiday that commemorates the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. As a lover of history and of this particular President, I was anticipa...

When Wes Craven’s original Scream motion picture was released in the winter of 1996, I was still too young to see the film in theaters unaccompanied by an adult. In fact, this was still true in 1997 for Scream 2, and also for t...

Soul Surfer is based on the story of courageous Bethany Hamilton (played by AnnaSophia Robb), a teenage surfing champion who lost an arm in a shark attack, and then regained the confidence to re-enter the water, despite the ove...