Its makers wouldn't describe it this way, but Captain Corelli's Mandolin may be viewed as a sort of Pearl Harbor for grown-ups. They both are love stories set against the backdrop of World War II. It ...

NPR's Film Critic Bob Mondello says Captain Corelli's Mandolin, the week's big movie release, is a disappointment, taking a complicated novel and boiling it down to a passionless romance. But Mondello ...

1940. We find ourselves on the Greek island of Cephallonia. A place that has already survived many tragic blows of fate. And the next is not long in coming: the Second World War in the shape of the ...