Neil Young, "Peace Trail" (Reprise Records)
Sunday, 8 January 2017, 16:32
Last update: about 11 years ago
Prolific rocker Neil Young is at his curmudgeonly best on "Peace Trail," bemoaning his place in the current generation while standing up for his decades-long commitment to fighting for the...
Star power can't correct awry path of 'Passengers'
Sunday, 8 January 2017, 15:37
Last update: about 11 years ago
We seem to be shooting our best movie stars into outer space with alarming frequency. George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon and now Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt have all...
Wagner embraces great actresses in engaging Hollywood memoir
Sunday, 8 January 2017, 14:42
Last update: about 11 years ago
A love letter to actresses he admired on and off the screen, Robert J. Wagner's engaging memoir offers a warm embrace for the many women who helped him establish a successful career as a leading man...
Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66
Saturday, 7 January 2017, 15:37
Last update: about 11 years ago
While female actors are fighting for more and better roles in Hollywood, Sonia Braga got the part of her life at 66 in Kleber Mendonça Filho's "Aquarius". The Brazilian star is getting...
'Perfume' by Lizzie Ostrom a solid pop culture guide
Saturday, 7 January 2017, 14:41
Last update: about 11 years ago
Fragrance has always been wrapped in social and economic issues, controversy, memories and history as Lizzie Ostrom so persuasively shows in the lively "Perfume: A Century of Scents." The 10...
Massive Kate Bush album a concert series souvenir
Friday, 6 January 2017, 16:30
Last update: about 11 years ago
Kate Bush gives fans an exquisite souvenir with "Before the Dawn," a massive live album taken from her series of 22 concerts in 2014. With tantalizingly few chart hits and dominated by two...
'Moonlight,' 'La La Land' separate from award season pack
Friday, 6 January 2017, 15:36
Last update: about 11 years ago
In Hollywood's early but rapidly solidifying awards season, two films - radically different in tone and tune - have separated themselves from the pack: "Moonlight" and "La La Land." "Moonlight,"...
Next stop: New novel coming from 'Girl on the Train' author
Friday, 6 January 2017, 14:41
Last update: about 11 years ago
Riverhead Books told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Paula Hawkins' "Into the Water" is a suspense novel about family secrets and "the slipperiness of truth" that will be published May...
J. Cole's low-key return focuses on fragility of life
Thursday, 5 January 2017, 16:29
Last update: about 11 years ago
J. Cole's latest album, "4 Your Eyez Only," is an intimate one. It unfolds like an old journal that's been unearthed and shared with an audience of one - that is, an audience of you, or, more...