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After a staggering success across Europe, George Michael brings his career retrospective tour, 25 LIVE, to North America starting in June.

George Michael is back on the block; with Sony in the recording studio, at European concert stages on a sold out tour and in the scandal rags. What about his 80s hits?

In the movie the Dark Knight Gotham wants Batman to take off his mask and reveal himself. But Gotham does not get what it wants; instead, Gotham gets what it deserves.

After selling out shows across North America, George Michael performed at Montreal's Bell Centre to an enthusiastic crowd who has kept the faith for over 17 years.

George Michael releases TwentyFive, a 29-song career retrospective that collects all the highlights from "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" to new song "Feeling Good".

"Roger Malvin's Burial" examines the consequence of moral choice and the enigmatic nature of sinfulness. If humans are inherently evil, from whence does sin arise?

Hollywood aims for more than Jane Austen's mutilation by making changes to her novels that can infuriate scholars.

French director takes a step away from surrealist fantasies towards a more homespun delivery of his whimsical worldview.

MGM is set to release the movie Dead Like Me: Life After Death in 2009. Based on Showtime's hit show Dead Like Me the movie follows the lives of several grim reapers.

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One of the greatest fears that every parent shares is the possibility of their child, or the child of a loved one, being abducted by a stranger.

In the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series, Robert Kiyosaki asserts that a home is a liability not an asset. This is not correct accounting, but it may be a valid point.

Kettlebells have only recently come into the health and fitness industry in recent years, but this is no fad -Kettlebells have a hidden history of success.

A look at the notorious rise and fall of former Heavyweight Kingpin Mike Tyson

"Godfather Death" is one of the Grimm Brothers' classic tales about a young doctor and his relationship with his Godfather, Death personified.

Going boldly where so many bad children's book-adaptations have gone before, Where The Wild Things Are stays true to the source material, expanding on it wonderfully.

A look at two versions of the same story but with the same message.

Our concept of informal leadership depends on how we define leadership. Normally, it means taking charge of a group without being formally appointed into such a role.

Charade successfully mixes the genres of romance, comedy, and thriller into one far-fetched, though highly entertaining, story of a desperate woman with no one to trust.

It's hard to believe that The Story of Edgar Sawtelle -- a book that is long but never long-winded -- was David Wroblewski's first book.

The Book Thief is guaranteed to launch intense discussions among teens regarding prejudice and death through its haunting portrayal of the Holocaust and its many victims.

Partners with a significant difference in their ages may worry about criticism from friends and family, or the impact of an age gap on their relationship.

Television's queen of broadcasting has penned her personal details and professional chronicles in this compelling memoir.

Saya is a half human half vampire warrior hunting down any and all demons, she is searching for Onigen, the most powerful of the demons and the murderer of her father.

Find out about the hit tv show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For both die-hard fans and newbies. From a semi-rabid fan.

Buffy, freshman, is determined to take control of her slaying and her life. She jumps 5 years into the future where she encounters a very dangerous vampire, Rupert Giles

From the new Johnny DC line from DC Comics, Mike Kunkel saves a classic hero and his family from the industry's "maturing" of heroes.

"I Want to Know Why" is a coming-of-age tale in which the narrator has the unfortunate but all-too-common experience of learning that his hero is not the man he imagined.

Granola-gate continues on I'm a Celebrity... with a new clue; The men take back their food; A new romance blooms in the depths of the jungle

Dennis Hopper's first lead film role comes in this quirky, supernatural mermaid tale, one which expertly blurs the line between the mundane and the surreal.

Dexter Morgan, by day, a charming blood splatter expert who brings donuts to work with him, and by night a ruthless serial killer who hunts down Miami's 'bad' people

Friday Night Lights explores an intriguing cultural phenomenon: the devotion of small-town Texans to high-school football.

Twenty years after its release, the motion picture Glory is still well worth watching -- even for those who have seen it before.

A disappointingly short and lackluster season that fails to keep the momentum and charm of the series first season.

Scottish health officers engage in paths of self destruction and exploration, but tired motifs drag down an entertaining premise.

Alex Proyas follows up the well received I, Robot with more sci-fi thrills, only this time with added Nicolas Cage.

Merlin has returned to Saturday evenings on BBC ONE and this time the boy sorcerer has to battle an ancient malignant force that threatens the very existence of Camelot a

The Children of Huang Shi is a dramatic adaptation of George Hogg's final years in China during the Japanese Occupation of the late 1930s.

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story is an intimate look at the feuding brothers who wrote musical scores for Walt Disney and many others. 7/10.

Dombrovkis captured the essential beauty of Tasmania's rugged territory, his landscape photos were part the political struggle to preserve the wilderness.

Melissa Gilbert grew up on camera and is best known for her role as Laura on Little House on the Prairie. Her memoir covers her life from childhood star to adult actor.

Warner Bros.' Ninja Assassin, released Nov. 26, 2009, kicks the Thanksgiving holiday up a notch with an upgrade to the traditional martial arts movie.

From great highs to somewhat questionable lows, Sylvester Stallone's character of John Rambo has spawned a series that's a clash of great action and painful movie making

Bret Hart's autobiography, Hitman: My Real Life In The Cartoon World of Wrestling, is as much a cathartic experience for the reader as it undoubtedly was for its author.

Profiles Russia's "Mighty Handful" or "The Five" - Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and Cui.

In Tony Scott's 2004 film that is rife with religious symbolism, Creasy (Denzel Washington) plays a symbolic savior to Pita (Dakota Fanning), and she saves him as well.

"I Want to Know Why," a short story by Sherwood Anderson, is a first-person account of a young man who associated truth and beauty with the world of horse racing.

Evidence from antebellum newspapers suggests that runaways were commonplace and slaveholders used various strategies reclaim their slaves.