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Riveting 'Dunkirk' is Nolan's, and year's, best

Saturday, 19 August 2017, 15:17 Last update: about 10 years ago

There are no brothers in arms, no flashbacks to simpler times and pretty wives and girlfriends left behind, no old men in situation rooms pontificating about politics or helping with exposition....

M.J. Rose takes readers on a journey to 1925 in new novel

Saturday, 19 August 2017, 14:49 Last update: about 10 years ago

M.J. Rose takes readers on a journey to 1925, where a post-war environment invoked a sense of heightened passion and new opportunities in "The Library of Light and Shadow." Delphine Duplessi has...

Canadian artist Mappe Of charts new, ethereal course

Friday, 18 August 2017, 16:05 Last update: about 10 years ago

A Canadian artist who spent time busking in Australia and playing heavy metal with his friends has taken his work in an ethereal new direction. The result is an art-rock delicacy, "A Northern...

'Landline,' a rom-com with love crumbling everywhere

Friday, 18 August 2017, 15:16 Last update: about 10 years ago

There's an eye-popping scene in the new film "Landline" when our heroine is walking around New York City and decides to check her phone messages. So get this: She walks over to some weird...

Dave Eggers writes middle-school novel 'The Lifters'

Friday, 18 August 2017, 14:48 Last update: about 10 years ago

The author has written a fantasy novel for middle-schoolers, "The Lifters," the first of a two-book deal with Alfred A. Knopf. "The Lifters" is scheduled for March 27, 2018, the publisher told The...

Dan Wilson revisits his hits for Adele, John Legend

Thursday, 17 August 2017, 16:04 Last update: about 10 years ago

Dan Wilson helped write that tune? And that one, too? If you still read album credits or liner notes, you may find Wilson's name attached to some of your favorites songs. Formerly of Trip...

In 'The Dark Tower,' franchise visions fall flat

Thursday, 17 August 2017, 15:16 Last update: about 10 years ago

Ah, August. It's that time of year when you can head to your local multiplex to see Matthew McConaughey as an interplanetary David Copperfield who's trying to use his "magics" to destroy a looming...

Daughters reunite for dying mother in 'The Sunshine Sisters'

Thursday, 17 August 2017, 14:47 Last update: about 10 years ago

From the outside, Ronni Sunshine was the beautiful movie star fans adored. But to her three daughters, Nell, Meredith and Lizzy, she was aloof and self-absorbed. Now that she is facing the end of her...

Willie Nelson cuts show short, cites Utah's high altitude

Wednesday, 16 August 2017, 16:03 Last update: about 10 years ago

Willie Nelson is blaming Utah's high altitude for forcing him to cut a performance near Salt Lake City short. Nelson ended his show early at the USANA Amphitheatre in suburban West Valley City on...

'The Emoji Movie' may be meh, but it's not evil

Wednesday, 16 August 2017, 15:10 Last update: about 10 years ago

There are five stages of grief in preparing to watch "The Emoji Movie ." The first is denial that this actually exists. The second is anger that now even storytelling has been reduced to those...

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