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Senegal's Baaba Maal returns after years with new album

Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 15:51 Last update: about 3 years ago Associated Press

Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and activist Baaba Maal is releasing his first album in seven years, "Being." The...

Wrenching and riveting, 'The Son' leaves you shaken

Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 15:49 Last update: about 3 years ago Associated Press

If you don't have children, you will likely walk out of "The Son" shaken and deeply moved. If you do have kids, you may have to be eventually pulled to your feet after collapsing into a fetal ball for...

'She Said' chronicles the scoop that fed a movement

Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 15:48 Last update: about 3 years ago Associated Press

Those old Hollywood newspaper flicks are great, but today's journalists don't run around newsrooms yelling "Get me rewrite!" Nor do they sprint across the room shouting "Stop the presses!" over the...

Back to DeLillo's doomed future in 'White Noise'

Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 15:47 Last update: about 3 years ago Associated Press

Like Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, the heart of Noah Baumbach's "White Noise" is in the supermarket. There, in the gleaming aisles of neatly arranged cereal boxes and produce, DeLillo found America's...

'The Peking Express' raises niche historical event

Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 15:43 Last update: about 3 years ago Associated Press

"The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China" by James M. Zimmerman (PublicAffairs) A little-known piece of history is resurfacing 100...

Natasha Lyonne stars in 'Poker Face,' a Peacock howdunit

Saturday, 5 August 2023, 09:05 Last update: about 3 years ago Associated Press

Known for her wise-cracking, quick delivery, Natasha Lyonne's newest role in the Peacock series " Poker Face " grants her an opportunity to play a character with a personality trait she's never played...

Boygenius is cohesive and powerful in 'The Record'

Saturday, 5 August 2023, 09:04 Last update: about 3 years ago Associated Press

"The Record" by Boygenius (Interscope) The internet's favorite indie girls welcome you into the brilliant, colorful world of Boygenius, again. The supergroup, consisting of best friends...

'Strange World' explores big themes in bold colours

Saturday, 5 August 2023, 08:58 Last update: about 3 years ago Associated Press

Is Searcher Clade the most millennial dad in all of animated moviedom? He has that telltale hipster beard. A sensitive voice sorta like Jake Gyllenhaal. And he feeds his kid avocado toast, with an egg...

A crowdpleasing whodunnit in Netflix's 'Glass Onion'

Saturday, 5 August 2023, 08:57 Last update: about 3 years ago Associated Press

The business of making original movie sequels is often a thankless job. You can't just do the same thing again, but you also can't be too different either. And many watching will have their guard up...

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