Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Film critic Matt Zoller Seitz once wrote that Cast Away would’ve been a great film if it began with Tom Hanks getting washed ashore on the island after the plane crash and ended with him eventually ...

After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.