Alongside Aubrey is the co-titular character in the Aubrey-Maturin series, Dr. Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany), the ship's physician, with whom they have a fascinating and honest relationship.

Fond as I am of albatrosses — a trait shared with my literary hero Stephen Maturin — my favorite bygone local species is Olympidytes thieli. It was discovered by Bruce Thiel while looking for ...

Pennywise refers to itself as "The Eater of Worlds," suggesting that it has destroyed worlds before and plans to do so again.

Pennywise has many memorable moments in Stephen King’s It novel, but its comment about being the “Eater of Worlds” only makes me wish King would write a prequel to It. The works of Stephen ...

Often spun from English folklore or French literature, swashbuckler movies usually entail valiant rogues who don't hide from ...

Patrick O’Brian (1914–2000) is famed for his twenty ‘tales’ – as he called them – about the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, one of the great pairs of ...

When Stephen Curry began his career, no player in NBA history had ever made 3,000 3-pointers in a career. That threshold now officially feels quaint. The Golden State Warriors star became the ...

Stephen Graham is widely regarded as one of the UK's finest actors, but he's also earned a reputation in the industry for his warm and generous nature. Many younger stars look up to him as a ...

Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry is joining his alma mater's efforts to adapt to the professionalization movement in college sports.Davidson College announced Monday that Curry will serve ...

Like the flickering special effects in the 1960 version of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine," past ages unspool around us — if ...

You can find him at Threads @mickmartin182. If somehow you thought there weren't enough adaptations off Stephen King novels and short stories out there, you just wait. Netflix has green-lit a new ...