Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. When Warner Oland died in 1938, 20th Century Fox wasn’t about to lose one of its most lucrative products, so they quickly replaced ...

In the B-picture genre, Dr. Fu Manchu, the personification of the Yellow Peril, was represented by Boris Karloff. Peter Lorre made eight films as the Japanese investigator Mr. Moto. But no Asian gave ...

Charlie Chan was a Chinese detective who solved cases in Honolulu before Hawaii was a state, but it’s accurate to say Chan was born in Warren — or at least his creator was. Before his death in 1933 at ...

The fictional, aphorism-spouting Chinese detective is best known today as a stereotypical relic from a less sensitive time. Yunte Huang tells the... Investigating The Real Detective Charlie Chan ...

I recently received a royalty check on my book Charlie Chan at the Movies and realized that the start date on that project is now 30 years old. The book itself has only been out 26 years. It took a ...

When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Charlie traces the strategically important invention to the current ...