Molly Tuttle, "When You're Ready" (Compass) Acoustic guitar sensation Molly Tuttle doesn't play to her strength on her debut album. Blame the starmaker machinery, but "When You're Ready" aspires...

La Llorona, a woman who according to Mexican legend murdered her own children and now wanders the earth looking for them, snatching other unsuspecting tots and drowning them, gets her close-up in a...

"Stone Mothers: a Novel" (Minotaur), by Erin Kelly An imposing former mental asylum reconfigured as a high-end spa and apartment building looms over a remote England town and over the life of...

Peter Gabriel, "Rated PG" (Real World) If you're a fan of Peter Gabriel, you probably know his popular hits like "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time," as well as maybe some older classics like "Games...

The romantic comedy, left for dead by most of the major studios, has been reborn on Netflix. Streaming algorithms have swooped in to resurrect an old genre formula. The results so far — "To...

Nine years after her book deal was first announced, Demi Moore is ready to release a memoir her publisher calls "deeply candid and insightful." Moore's "Inside Out" is scheduled for Sept. 24,...

Khalid, "Free Spirit" (RCA/Right Hand Music Group) Khalid charmed us on his debut album by singing about being young, dumb and broke. None of that is accurate on his excellent sophomore...

Judi Dench is back in the world of espionage — but her latest role is a far cry from James Bond's unflappable spy chief, M. In "Red Joan," to be released Friday in Britain and the United...

"Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen," by Brian Raftery (Simon & Schuster) Everybody's entitled to their opinion, especially when it comes to the movies. Somewhere...

Gino Vannelli, "Wilderness Road" (SoNo Recording Group) Looking for a jazzy follow-up to George Michael's "Kissing a Fool"? Try Gino Vannelli's "Gimme Back My Life." It's one of the standout...