Mar 15th, 2010 · In "Promises," The Morning Benders' members stack up vocals that flow like a much-needed summer breeze. With its tone of youthful regret and lost innocence, the song draws more than just its dense sound from Brian Wilson. Both yearn to hold onto childhood amid the inevitable progression to (and through) adulthood.
Mar 11th, 2010 · In Mother, Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho turns in a taut mystery about a woman who takes it upon herself to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in the effort to prove her son's innocence — and ends up uncovering much more than she bargained for.
Jan 11th, 2010 · A hearing is scheduled Monday in Chicago, where the top prosecutor is seeking unusual evidence — she wants a professor and his students to hand over their grades, emails, notes and course evaluations as she reviews a murder conviction. David Protess is not just any professor — his students' reporting has helped exonerate and free 11 men convicted of murders they did not commit.
Jan 8th, 2010 · Cook County Prosecutors assert student journalists at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism are not protected under the Illinois Reporter Priviledge Act.
Dec 30th, 2009 · Something is amiss in the German village of Eichwald, and the problem isn't an isolated one: The White Ribbon is a film from Cache director Michael Haneke, so the something that's wrong is, well, everything. (Recommended)
Dec 30th, 2009 · James Bain was 19-years-old in 1974, when he was arrested and charged with kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old boy. He was convicted largely because the boy identified him in a police lineup. After serving 35 years in prison, James Bain was recently freed after DNA testing — which he pleaded for when he was initially accused — found him innocent of the crime. Bain talks about his life as a freed man and whether he holds any resentment toward the judicial system for the life-changing error.
Nov 18th, 2009 · South Africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world. But what is widely being called the government's "shoot-to-kill" policy is being blamed for the recent murders of innocent bystanders, including the shooting death of a 3-year-old boy.
Oct 27th, 2009 · Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk says his new novel is a love story that "doesn't put love on a pedestal." Instead, The Museum of Innocence is about one man's obsession with a beautiful young woman — and the museum collection he dedicates to the affair that derailed his life.