Lily Bloom and Ryle Kincaid don't really meet-cute. On a rooftop in Boston, he announces himself by angrily kicking a patio chair. She's up there trying to come to terms with her abusive father's...

Back in 2022, I read Irene Chias' novel Mur Ġibek (translated into Maltese by Mark Vella), a novel which explored the media's treatment of sexism, femicide and abuse in an innovative way. In 2023...

"Back to Black " as a movie is a tame and mediocre affair. A conventionally told biopic about a talented artist who became famous, struggled with drugs, depression and bulimia, and died early. There...

The venerable Neil Young offers a ragged and raw live take of his beloved 1990 album "Ragged Glory" with a new album, titled "Fu##in' Up." Of course, the 2024 version doesn't have the same...

"Nothing forces you to face your demons like falling in love." And it's almost always worth it, Emily Henry says during a recent interview ahead of Tuesday's release of her latest novel, "Funny...

In 1984, Talking Heads ' concert film and live album "Stop Making Sense" captured the alt-rock quartet at the height of their powers. Forty years later, a new 4K restoration of the film is...

In sibling directors Bill and Turner Ross ' latest, "Gasoline Rainbow," five Oregon teens just out of high school make their meandering way some 500 miles to reach the coast for what's been billed as...

Tom Selleck starts his memoir in the middle of a car crash. He is 17 and in the passenger seat when he and two friends go airborne in his mom's red Chevy Corvair, tumbling off Mulholland Drive in Los...

The magical dragons of Gozo is a story about friendship between Ukrainian girl Yulia and Gozitan boy Julian, written by Ukrainian writer Inna Danyliuk. The book is dedicated to Gozitans Claude Calleja...

'Pontificale in San Marco' Author: Elio Bartolini Publisher: Rusconi Libri / 1978 Pages: 172   I have long been wanting to write about this book, even if that meant the...