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Director Paul Greengrass took on what some say is a fool's errand in making a pricey movie about the Iraq war.

What has the swine flu pandemic taught us, asks Wendy Orent, writing for the Los Angeles Times.

On Twitter, Jesse James has never been one to mince words.

In a battle to woo back web surfers who are spending more time on social networking sites, Internet portal Yahoo has clinched a deal with Twitter to share content across both properties.

At the offices of video game developer Cryptic Studios in Northern California, certain rooms look like a Trekkie's nirvana: Posters from the television series Deep Space 9 and movies Generations and Nemesis line the walls, along with original sketches of the Borg Queen and new designs for Federation ships.

TV2'S Emmy-winning reality show, The Amazing Race, has seen its share of eclectic contestants come and go over the series' 13 seasons: beauty pageant winners and bickering married couples, jock siblings and even little people.

It's as inescapable as any law of physics: To be a movie director, you must first direct a movie. But being a movie director and becoming one are two fundamentally dissimilar things.

The folks behind Family Guy have been saying some of the most alarming things.

It was a sultry summer afternoon on the wooded campus of Sarah Lawrence College, where Julianna Margulies got her start on stage as an undergraduate in the late 1980s, and the actress was reminiscing about what she used to hear from casting directors.

You would be forgiven for not recognising Mariah Carey in her role as a dowdy welfare caseworker in the urban drama Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire.