As Zimbabweans celebrated the ouster of dictator Robert Mugabe, they danced on the streets to previously banned protest songs by one of the country's most famous musicians — a man jailed by the...

Han Solo is dead. Luke Skywalker is back, but changed. And Leia Organa's story will soon be coming to an end. The Star Wars that inspired four decades of passionate fandom appears to be slowly...

"Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), by Nancy Schoenberger American movies feature a handful of great actor-director...

Sam Smith thought he had cracked it — it being "fame." He released the first single from his new album, the groovy burner "Too Good at Goodbyes," and didn't put his face on the single...

The hours move slowly in "Call Me By Your Name ." It's summertime in Northern Italy in 1983 on a secluded 17th century villa, where life among the antiquities is beautifully tranquil and nothing...

Kristen Stewart's directing ambitions go all the way back to when she was an 11-year-old performing in the 2002 David Fincher thriller "Panic Room." "I was working with Jodie Foster and I was...

A newly discovered Raymond Chandler story has everything from an indictment of the medical industry to some mysterious scribble. "It's All Right: He Only Died," the title suggesting a macabre Bob...

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, "Soul of a Woman" (Daptone Records) Sharon Jones recorded "Soul of a Woman" with the extraordinarily able and reliable Dap-Kings while battling the cancer which...

Firefighters must be our last real superheroes. They run toward stuff that's on fire, for heaven's sake. There are the few public servants — not cops, politicians or doctors — as beloved...

"The Vanishing Season" (Minotaur), by Joanna Schaffhausen Ellery Hathaway, junior officer on the police force in sleepy Woodbury, Massachusetts, will do almost anything to convince her boss that...