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With 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' sequels, Scott looks forward

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 15:56 Last update: about 8 years ago

Ridley Scott insists he is not a nostalgic person, but you wouldn't know that looking at the 2017 movie calendar. Not only are audiences getting another "Alien" movie, "Alien: Covenant," on May 19,...

Singer Abel Pintos reflects on his 11th album, '11'

Saturday, 6 May 2017, 16:32 Last update: about 8 years ago

"I was clear that music was going to become a language for me," he told The Associated Press before a concert last week in Mexico City. "When I was a boy, I wasn't very introspective...

Math film 'Gifted' is less than the sum of its parts

Saturday, 6 May 2017, 15:56 Last update: about 8 years ago

There are several positive factors in the mixed equation that is "Gifted," starring Chris Evans and the appealing 10-year-old Mckenna Grace: A brilliant and precocious yet sweetly empathetic...

'Refugees' is timely, timeless in telling of human stories

Saturday, 6 May 2017, 15:23 Last update: about 8 years ago

Viet Thanh Nguyen's new book, "The Refugees," is both timely, given the current debate about refugees in America, and timeless in its exploration of universal human struggles. This gorgeous...

John Mayer solid, but not sizzling on latest album

Friday, 5 May 2017, 16:31 Last update: about 8 years ago

Earth's reigning guitar god, John Mayer, is out with his seventh studio album, "The Search for Everything." It reveals a calmer artist taking a measured approach to accessible funk-laced...

Love triangle undoes historical epic 'The Promise'

Friday, 5 May 2017, 15:55 Last update: about 8 years ago

The Armenian Genocide is a curiously unexplored moment in our modern history, cinematically speaking. That fact alone makes director and co-writer Terry George's "The Promise " intriguing enough....

Ohio governor, ex-GOP presidential candidate, publishes book

Friday, 5 May 2017, 15:22 Last update: about 8 years ago

The book, released Tuesday by Thomas Dunne Books, is roughly equal parts campaign-trail memoir, political biography and Kasich's own self-help therapy session for living in a post-Donald Trump...

For Father John Misty, doomsday is 'Pure Comedy'

Thursday, 4 May 2017, 16:29 Last update: about 8 years ago

Father John Misty, Josh Tillman's alias, makes his bleak, wordy account of today's human condition sound like a long-lost Elton John album from the early '70s. Drenched in piano and strings,...

In sensation of 'Get Out,' hints of a Trump-effect

Thursday, 4 May 2017, 15:54 Last update: about 8 years ago

There have been monster gorillas and sharp-clawed superheroes at the box office this month, but the biggest beast of them all has been Jordan Peele's $4.5 million, race-exploding thriller "Get...

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