The insane revenge movie "Peppermint " starts to make a lot more sense when you realize that it was directed by the man who brought us "Taken" (Pierre Morel) and written by one at least partially...

"The Line That Held Us" (Putnam), by David Joy Life is hard in the corner of the Smoky Mountains where the Hooper, Moody and Brewer families live. Drug abuse is rampant. Jobs are scarce. And some...

Veronica Mars has another mystery to solve. Hulu has ordered eight new one-hour interconnected episodes of the series, starring Kristen Bell, that premiered in 2004 and aired on UPN for two...

Troye Sivan, "Bloom" (Capitol Records) On Troye Sivan's debut album in 2015, he admitted he was "just a lost boy/ready to be found." The Australian singer-songwriter was often shy, anxious,...

As frightening as the "The Nun" is, it doesn't hold a candle to today's real-life horrors in the Catholic Church. But while a new generation of filmmakers has breathed new life into horror by...

"Room to Dream" by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna (Random House) The simplest avenue for beginning to understand filmmaker David Lynch might be found in a childhood friend's observation:...

As in his TV series "This Is Us," jubilant and catastrophic events tend to cluster for Dan Fogelman. Days before his latest and most ambitious movie, "Life Itself," opens in theaters, and the third...

Big Red Machine, "Big Red Machine" (PEOPLE/Jagjaguwar) Big Red Machine is a long-in-the-making project led by Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and The National's Aaron Dessner. Its roots go back to an...

— What's the best thing that's happened to Tiffany Haddish in the past year? Tough question. The 38-year-old comedian takes a deep breath. "Meeting Oprah, getting a Tesla, hosting the MTV...

"Swift Vengeance" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by T. Jefferson Parker A drone circles like a bird of prey, waiting for a clear shot at a terrorist. Thousands of miles away in America, its operator...