Besides the fact that he's still here, Elvis Costello's fans can be grateful that he's open to changing his mind. While something short of a vow, Costello said in 2010 that he didn't plan to...

It's fall of 1960 in Montana when we meet the Brinson family in "Wildlife ," a carefully considered and deeply moving adaptation of a Richard Ford novel about a fracturing marriage and the teenage son...

"Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism" (HarperOne), by Nadya Tolokonnikova Power to the people: Where have we heard that before? In the 1960s, to be sure. And again today in "Read...

Without a screenwriter in sight, Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin are trading wisecracks just like the kibitzing longtime pals they play in "The Kominsky Method." Arkin got the ball rolling when...

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, "Live from the Ryman" (Southeastern) Jason Isbell has been on a roll of late, finding sobriety, domestic bliss and fame and fortune, thanks to three consecutive...

"Can You Ever Forgive Me?" is a film about Lee Israel, a biographer who started a side hustle writing fake letters as Noel Coward, Louise Brooks, Dorothy Parker and other deceased luminaries and...

"November Road" (Morrow,) by Lou Berney Although set in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, "November Road" avoids being another novel about that fateful day in Dallas....

John le Carre's best-selling novel "The Little Drummer Girl" was released in 1983 but remains timely — and that disturbs Alexander Skarsgard. Skarsgard and Michael Shannon star in a...

John Hiatt, "The Eclipse Sessions" (New West) At age 66, John Hiatt is still writing love songs — and good ones. On "The Eclipse Sessions," he sings about the wonder of love, the trouble...

There's nothing really new or fresh or bold in "Johnny English Strikes Again," the third installment of Rowan Atkinson's bumbling-spy saga/James Bond spoof. And for some of us, maybe that's not...