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James Abel delivers a winner with 'White Plague'

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 19:37 Last update: about 11 years ago

James Abel's new thriller, "White Plague," combines elements from "The Hunt for Red October" and the cutting-edge science from the best of Michael Crichton to send chills down the reader's...

Bob Dylan says he would be a teacher if not a musician

Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 20:20 Last update: about 11 years ago

Bob Dylan says if he weren't a musician, he would be a teacher. The 73-year-old is on the cover of AARP magazine's February/March issue. He says in an interview that "if I had to do it all over...

Desperation runs deep in Russia's 'Leviathan'

Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 19:46 Last update: about 11 years ago

Desperation runs through the frozen ground and swelling seas in "Leviathan," director Andrey Zvyagintsev's devastatingly beautiful and grand tale of man's ever deepening helplessness against a corrupt...

Fishing guide plunges into evildoings in thriller

Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 19:36 Last update: about 11 years ago

Vivid scenery and a likable protagonist mark the second book in a series by David Riley Bertsch. In "River of No Return," Wyoming fishing guide Jake Trent, a former Department of Justice...

Blues-rock group Black Crowes calls it quits after 24 years

Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 20:18 Last update: about 11 years ago

In a statement Thursday, he alluded to internal issues between his brother and the band. Robinson, the band's guitarist and songwriter, founded the group with his brother and lead singer, Chris...

Been there, done that in the 'Wedding Ringer'

Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 19:45 Last update: about 11 years ago

The first version of the script for "The Wedding Ringer," a new comedy about a friendless schlub who rents a best man for his big day, was written back in 2002 - a fact that partly accounts for the...

'Fear the Darkness' is solid story

Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 19:34 Last update: about 11 years ago

Relationships require a certain amount of vulnerability - the willingness to expose yourself emotionally, hoping that happiness is the ultimate goal, but realizing that being hurt comes with it,...

Album celebrates music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

Monday, 26 January 2015, 20:15 Last update: about 11 years ago

Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene - and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general - will relish this recording of a 2013...

Mann's cyber-thriller 'Blackhat' clicks with urgency

Monday, 26 January 2015, 19:47 Last update: about 11 years ago

Michael Mann's "Blackhat" begins with the camera slowly descending from above Earth, diving down into a nuclear facility, and submerging into the underlying, twisting maze of electronic circuitry. A...

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