Highly Recommended THE FILM The painless comparison to make for the French release, "A Prophet," is to position the picture in the shadow of "The Godfather." In terms of epic crime film storytelling and patient character transformation, it's a solid DNA match, yet "A Prophet" is a far more feral, scattered production, forgoing any sort of reassuring sweep to snap around like a cobra, striking ...

Reality TV executive and Marblehead native Jamie Canniffe admittedly has a hard time talking about himself. But he does like storytelling, and his story is one worth telling. Canniffe was recently promoted to the position of senior vice president of alternative programming and development for Sony Pictures Television.

Few games live up to 11 years of anticipation, but "StarCraft II's" slick upgrades mean the sequel's got a shot.

Most time management/tycoon games work on the assumption the plucky entrepreneur was born for business. Flo and all her spiritual successors are just more patient, more thorough, and better at running off their feet than all the competition, and that is, of course, what matters. A strong work ethic leads simply and inevitably to business growth and material well-being. Farm Craft 2: Global ...

One of the enduring examples of the graphic novel as a form is Will Eisner's A Contract With God, a collection of short stories that is often called the first graphic novel. It isn't that, but it is a wonderful book, and a great example of why Eisner is considered a master of comic book storytelling. Now, and this was probably inevitable, there is a film version in development. THR says that ...