Cloying and farfetched, 'Mother's Day' unfit for mom
Saturday, 7 May 2016, 14:03
Last update: about 12 years ago
What would it take to make you fall off the upstairs balcony at your house in the middle of the day? Could you imagine being so intoxicated by your own karaoke performance of "The Humpty Dance" that...
Young couple navigates cancer and life in 'Alice & Oliver'
Saturday, 7 May 2016, 13:37
Last update: about 12 years ago
Set in early '90s Manhattan when street corners touted pay phones, Charles Bock's "Alice and Oliver" jarringly drops readers into cancer's attack on a young family. It begins with a sudden bout of...
Beyonce again proves to be center of pop universe
Friday, 6 May 2016, 15:12
Last update: about 12 years ago
And so it was this weekend, amid deep mourning for a lost icon, music's queen dropped "Lemonade," an arresting display of what technically qualifies as videos and singles, but is better described as a...
'Elvis & Nixon' recalls a bizarre moment in history
Friday, 6 May 2016, 14:02
Last update: about 12 years ago
This we know: On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley showed up bright and early at the White House gates, delivering a barely legible note he'd scrawled on American Airlines stationery to President...
'Unbroken Brain' takes a look at addiction
Friday, 6 May 2016, 13:29
Last update: about 12 years ago
Nancy Reagan's death last month caused some to take stock of her mantra "Just Say No" and why it failed to prevent addiction or dissuade many young people in the 1980s from experimenting with...
Jayhawks ride rocky path to reformation
Thursday, 5 May 2016, 15:11
Last update: about 12 years ago
To a certain extent, singer-songwriter Gary Louris is fighting against history by reforming the Jayhawks. "The precedent isn't very good as far as bands putting out their best work late in their...
Feminism freezes over in 'Huntsman' sequel
Thursday, 5 May 2016, 14:01
Last update: about 12 years ago
"The Huntsman: Winter's War" is one of the more bizarre sequels in recent memory. If modern movies are going to strip every side story out of every superhero universe and beyond, fairy tales should be...
'Siddhartha's Brain' smart take on meditation
Thursday, 5 May 2016, 13:28
Last update: about 12 years ago
It's a pleasure to read "Siddhartha's Brain," which comes from a science journalist with long experience of explaining ideas for readers of The Guardian and other publications. James Kingsland even...
Rufus Wainwright sings Shakespeare on new album
Wednesday, 4 May 2016, 15:10
Last update: about 12 years ago
Rufus Wainwright appears in many guises on "Take All My Loves," composing, producing, arranging and, least of all, singing. Instead, he presents nine of the Bard of Avon's sonnets as individual...