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Jan. 25: Netflix Inc. discloses that it has regained almost as many customers as it lost following an unpopular price increase, signaling that the video subscription service is healing from its self-inflicted wounds.

That's a few thousand pages and I'm sure some of you reading this already know that.

As modern ghost story The Woman in Black hovers into cinemas, Metro's Ross McGuinness talks to the film's star Daniel Radcliffe , its director and a ghost hunter to find out why we are so fascinated with spectres If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who're you gonna call? Harry Potter, that's who.

The 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth was Feb. 7. Dickens' 20 novels have sold millions of copies and never been out of print.

Many specters hang over The Woman in Black , but the most visible is the ghost of Harry Potter.

"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" has already been nominated for five Academy Awards.

Over the past week or so, I've posted two entries in which I discuss the Attachment Theory of Love and relate it to characters from "Harry Potter." In the first post , I explained the theory and wrote about Hermione, and how she is a wonderful example of the attachment style called Secure.

Rob Friedman, the co-chair of Lionsgate, has said the studio is ready to film a sixth installment in the 'Twilight' series if the series' author, Stephenie Meyer, writes another novel, SlashFilm is reporting.

A Thursday Dec. 4, 2008 photo from files showing author JK Rowling reading to around 200 schoolchildren at a tea party in the Parliament Hall Edinburgh Thursday Dec, 4, 2008, where she read passages from her new book "The Tales of Beedle the Bard". J.K Rowling described how press intrusion made her feel like a hostage, Hugh Grant traded insults ... (more)

Part of the fun in reading novels is being able to imagine each character's appearance, but if you have problems visualizing certain literary creations, Brian Joseph Davis has got you covered.

Jeffrey Steinberg, 51, joined Weiss Memorial Hospital as CEO in September, moving to Chicago from Connecticut.

Filmmaker and Flint-area native Michael Moore speaks at the Whiting Auditorium during a free book tour event for his new book "Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life, " which tells stories about Moore growing up in the Flint and Davison area Tuesday night.

To celebrate February and the month of love and romance, we bring to you these three new books that readers will surely fall in love with.

Last Friday an Italian daily published stunning claims of a plot within the upper reaches of the Catholic Church hierarchy to kill Pope Benedict XVI, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

Stephen Daldry, whose "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" retells the deadly events of Sept 11, 2001 through the eyes of a New York boy, believes there should be more films about the attacks and their consequences.

File - Heather Mills attends the Achilles Hope and Possibility Race in New York's Central Park in this June 27, 2010 file photo .

Summit co-founder and Lionsgate exec Rob Friedman says the company would happily move forward with a sixth film in the "Twilight" series, but it will depend upon author Stephenie Meyer penning another installment.

In his article, " The Caging of America " in the January 30, 2012 issue of The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik quotes Robert Perkin's " Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire ," who argues that the South is "the fountainhead of subjugationist discipline." That is, America's prison system is a slave plantation, a way of reimposing Jim Crow.

A newly released FBI file on Steve Jobs paints a portrait of a driven, complex individual with a "tendency to distort reality" to achieve his goals.

Whenever the duo behind "Potted Potter" bring their stage show to Edinburgh, Scotland, they make sure there is one empty seat in the audience a " just in case "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling wants to check out the acclaimed parody of her books.