Late in the movie “Shadowlands,” the C.S. Lewis character describes the role that books can play in real life.

This is a column I’d rather not write, but it feels necessary — not just to process the latest terrible events but to acknowledge and try to extract from them something better, at least on paper, ...

They should make an Emily in Pandora crossover. She’d probably be as good at speaking Na’vi as she is at speaking French.

One of the final films that Rob Reiner directed, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, was a look at his best friend.