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A search for true love in 'The Beekeeper's Daughter'

Sunday, 17 May 2015, 13:51 Last update: about 12 years ago

International best-selling author Santa Montefiore writes an epic romance that spans two generations in her new novel, "The Beekeeper's Daughter." Readers are transported back and forth between...

Zac Brown Band eclectic on 'Jekyll + Hyde'

Saturday, 16 May 2015, 15:27 Last update: about 12 years ago

Zac Brown rightly names his new release after a famous, fictional schizophrenic, for few artists in this genre-focused era so openly embrace an eclectic muse. Brown sets the tone immediately on...

Schwarzenegger surprises in zombie drama 'Maggie'

Saturday, 16 May 2015, 14:27 Last update: about 12 years ago

Would you stand by your child if she was slowly dying of a gruesome and highly contagious illness? That's the central question that Arnold Schwarzenegger has to face in "Maggie," a terminal illness...

'American Warlord' follows Chucky Taylor from US to Liberia

Saturday, 16 May 2015, 13:49 Last update: about 12 years ago

  Chucky Taylor's 2008 trial in Miami federal court was a sort of homecoming for a young man whose adolescence in Florida had been like so many others bored with the suburbs and longing for...

Stapleton's solo CD takes road less travelled

Friday, 15 May 2015, 15:25 Last update: about 12 years ago

Chris Stapleton owns a great, growling bluesman's voice and a sensitive singer-songwriter's heart. He's written hits for Luke Bryan ("Drink a Beer"), Kenny Chesney ("Never Wanted Nothing More"),...

'Saint Laurent' is compelling yet maddening, too

Friday, 15 May 2015, 14:26 Last update: about 12 years ago

There's a wonderful scene in "Saint Laurent," the sumptuous, exciting and also maddening new film by Bertrand Bonello, in which we watch the famous designer casually display his brilliance. A...

David Baldacci's latest thriller is engaging

Friday, 15 May 2015, 13:48 Last update: about 12 years ago

David Baldacci has written another thriller that will have readers engaged from the first page. Amos Decker, a stellar athlete who made it to the NFL, experienced a helmet-to-helmet collision on...

Snoop Dogg's funk-inspired album hits right mark

Thursday, 14 May 2015, 15:24 Last update: about 12 years ago

Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams made magic together more than a decade ago, and now the rapper and producer are doing it again. Snoop Dogg and Williams, who collaborated on the infectious hit...

'Age of Ultron' is an Avengers overdose

Thursday, 14 May 2015, 14:25 Last update: about 12 years ago

It will surely stand as one of the most peculiar and possibly ironic entries in a director's filmography that in between Joss Whedon's two "Avengers" films there reads "Much Ado About Nothing": a...

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