Three decades after its debut, this bold retelling of the Faust legend still packs a punch. It’s a wild and darkly humorous journey which follows Faustus as he strikes a dangerous deal and sets off on ...

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A Texas lawmaker whose religious affiliation includes atheists and agnostics suggested all religions pray to the same God of many names during an interfaith prayer service at the state capitol ...

Renaissance writers and thinkers modified the idea of the monk’s cell to create refuges in which books were the only company.

One famous shot in the first minutes of the film, showing reflections in a smashed snow globe, anticipates the film’s grand themes of ambition and legacy and the cracked mirror of memory. Welles ...

Perhaps the fires that devastated Los Angeles in early January will take such platitudes out of circulation, at least for a little while. In Pacific Palisades, Altadena, and Malibu, history burned and ...

A brave new world needs an all-new Captain America. And when Captain America: Brave New World soars into theaters on Feb. 14, ...

Former Abingdon School pupil Toby Jones is to appear in a film about Welsh movie star Richard Burton. Shooting has completed ...

Captain America has one of Marvel's most underrated rogues galleries, with several of his villains deserving more credit for ...

But he’s open to new viewpoints that challenge the status quo. Jim Helsinger, left, performed as Dr. Faustus with Sarah Ireland as Mary in Orlando Shakes’ 2009 production of “Wittenberg.” ...