I love reading under any circumstances, but with the writers' strike likely to roll into next year, I'm going to be needing book recommendations more than ever. So before we flip the calendar to 2008, I wanted to ask you all about your favorite books of 2007. One of my favorites: Will Allison's What You Have Left, a book I picked up almost by accident at my local library and ended up devouring Read more

Logically, I understand that The Kite Runner is a beautiful, stirring work of storytelling. It's a tender homage to the power of brotherhood and forgiveness. It's a song of redemption. Having read the arresting novel by Khaled Hosseini, I knew all this going into the screening. I also knew that the movie, like the book, might emotionally wreck me. And it did. At its heart, The Kite Runner is Read more

Looking for ways to beef up your dad's entertainment arsenal? Check out today's holiday gift guide, as full of daddy love as this week's episode of Heroes was. What man hasn't dreamed of being James Bond? Indulge your dad's slick, shoot-em-up fantasies with the Ultimate James Bond Collector's Set, which includes all 21 films to date plus a full disc of special features for each, including deleted Read more

The new trailer for The Kite Runner has just been released, and it's already making me feel emotional. Having read the powerful novel by Khaled Hosseini, I've been waiting with a mixture of hope and fear for the movie version, directed by Marc Foster (Monster's Ball, Stranger Than Fiction, Finding Neverland). By the looks of the trailer, however, it looks like Foster might just be doing the book Read more