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A local homicide cop (Avatar's Sam Worthington) and his ex-New Yorker partner (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) track a killer in a moody thriller inspired by true events. With Chloe Grace Moretz and Jessica Chastain.

Bob Mondello's essay on why remakes aren't always regrettable got us thinking: Why do some work better than others? We explore three examples — and invite you to do the same.

Linton Weeks investigates the end of an online game that built such a successful community around itself that its demise is causing a worried uprising.

The clock is ticking and we're one week into round seven of our Three-Minute Fiction writing contest. Author Danielle Evans is our judge this time around. Entries are due at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, September 25.

A new British sci-fi thriller wants you to question your allegiance to the criminals who defend Earth against an alien invasion.

Amy Dickinson describes the incident that makes her think of the sound of shovels penetrating hard dirt as part of our series Summer Sounds. Her dad once forced Amy, her sisters and a cousin to dig in the hot summer sun in the fruitless pursuit of saving a crop.

Two of America's oldest black fraternities will celebrate 100 years of brotherhood and civic action this month. Host Michel Martin discusses the relevance and history of these groups with Dwayne Murray, polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi, and Lawrence Ross, author of The Divine Nine: The History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities.

There are countless ways to meet that special someone — through a friend, website, and even a set-up. For the past five years, The Washington Post has tried playing Cupid for residents of the nation's capital. Reporter Christina Breda Antoniades tells host Michel Martin about the history of this experiment called "Date Lab," and what it's like being its matchmaker extraordinaire.

In the wake of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, Tina Brown recommends articles that show the breadth of opinion on Rupert Murdoch's media empire and its practices as well as the events that took place behind the scenes that led up to the story breaking.

Los Angeles screenwriter Clifford Green contributes to our series "Summer Sounds" with the story of the quiet night on a lonely country lake where he heard nothing but his heartbeat.