A young French woman who calls herself "Freddie" travels to Seoul on a whim for the first time, saying she's just there for a couple weeks, you know, to see "everything". This comes as a surprise to s…
Saroo Brierley's story is one of those that would be too astonishing to make up. As a child in India in the 1980s, he was out with his brother at night scavenging for money in railcars when he fell as…
Judi Dench, consummate pro of an actress that she is, made me cry 8 minutes into Philomena. Her adult daughter (Anna Maxwell Martin) is rushing off to a late shift at work, but sees her mother Philome…
This is one of those stories that would be cloying and eyeball-rolling if it were not true (or at least we're told it is true). A hulking practically mute teenage African-American kid who is poor and …
