Award winning actress, best selling author and social activist, Marlo Thomas is a very busy woman. She’s recently filmed a new movie with Demi Moore and Miley Cyrus and plans to star in a Broadway play next season. Her web site, MarloThomas.com, launches on AOL just as her latest book “Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny” is being published. Read more

Microsoft visionary Bill Gates once said, “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” And that’s why this astute tale about brilliant Facebook co-founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg is so fascinating. Read more

Gordon Gekko returns in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.” Although he fell off the “Forbes Fictional 15,” the business magazine’s annual ranking of richest fictional characters, where would he rank on your list of charmismatic movie billionaires? Read more>>

The essential ingredient in movies is timing, so the return of iconic Gordon Gekko couldn’t be more welcome. Oliver Stone’s 1987 original “Wall Street” was intended as a cautionary tale but became, instead, an inspiration to financial power players. Read more

While the snowy white owl beckons families to this 3-D animated adventure, it’s far more dark and violent than you might imagine - and it may terrify the very young. Read more

In Canada’s scenic Jasper National Park, the wolf pack is socially separated into two groups. The Alphas are the leaders, the disciplined hunters; traditionally, they only breed within their caste. The Omegas are followers, second-class slackers. Read more

Catfish, a documentary about an internet dating fiasco, is, by turns, exceptionally entertaining and moving, and it offers us a welcome opportunity for timely reflection about how we — those of us who communicate via the Internet — fantasize in our search for relationship, relevance and community. Definitely worth seeing! Read more>>

Sofia Coppola, who won a screenwriting Oscar for “Lost in Translation,” her portrait of Americans adrift at Tokyo’s Park Hyatt, took top honors last week at the Venice Film Festival for “Somewhere,” her portrait of an estranged father and daughter who reunite at Hollywood’s storied Chateau Marmont. Coppola’s sense of the hotel as a scene of personal transformation is the opposite of that in William Wyler’s “Dodworth,” which suggests that people stay the same despite the change of scene. Read more>>

According to the prologue, there are over 300 bank robberies in Boston every year. And a one-square-mile neighborhood, called Charlestown, has produced more bank and armored car robbers than anywhere in the United States. Read more

If you bemoan the fact that there hasn’t been a fresh, original and funny high school comedy in a long time, get thee to “Easy A,” which updates Hester Prynne’s dilemma in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” in somewhat the same way Amy Heckerling’s “Clueless” revised Jane Austen’s “Emma” 15 years ago. Read more