Mr. BrooksRunning Time 120 minutes Directed by Bruce Evans Written by Bruce Evans and Raynold Gideon Starring Kevin Costner, William Hurt, Demi Moore, Dane Cook Bruce Evans’s Mr. Brooks, from a screenplay by Mr. Evans and Raynold Gideon, turns out to be an ingeniously twisting...

A Canada-set thriller written by an agoraphobic British novelist who had never visited the country was named winner Wednesday of the lucrative Costa Book of the Year Award.Stef Penney won the $49,000 prize for her first novel, "The Tenderness of Wolves." Penney had already won...

Good news for fans of Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent": Rusty Sabich is back on the jobTurow, speaking to The Associated Press on Saturday at BookExpo America, said he has written about one-quarter of a novel featuring the famed chief deputy prosecutor who investigated, and was...

Behind thick stone walls topped by electrified razor wire, one of cyberspace's most unlikely hits is already warming up as the rest of Cebu stirs from sleep.Pockets of inmates stretch and practice their latest moves. Then the morning workout gets under way in earnest in...

Provides a brief history of film. Analyzes the construction of the thriller film genre. Discusses the financial success of such films.