Robin Thicke may be pleading to get his wife back, but he needs to work on getting his fans back, too.   The crooner's new album, "Paula," sold only 24,000 units in its debut...

The road movie is refitted for a charming spin around scenic Iceland in "Land Ho!," a serio-comedy of very modest ambition but a distinct character of its own. At its most reductive, a buddy...

"Jennifer, Gwyneth & Me: The Pursuit of Happiness, One Celebrity at a Time" (Ballantine Books), by Rachel Bertsche   Author and celebrity-watcher Rachel Bertsche spent nearly a...

"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands" (Doubleday), by Chris Bohjalian   Wiser than the adults around her yet convinced she's a hopeless loser, Emily Shepard is a literary descendant of...

When Jason Brown came to Nashville to start his career as the country artist Colt Ford, he couldn't find songwriters who would write for his singing style.   No surprise. Ford was...

Early in "Boyhood," Richard Linklater's bracingly original, utterly enthralling new film about the passage of time through the lens of one boy's life, we find our characters at a...

"Act of War" (Atria), by Brad Thor   In Brad Thor's latest thriller, "Act of War," Scot Harvath finds his hands full when a snag-and-grab operation for a terrorist...

The component books of this Oliver Friggieri trilogy had come out singly – It-Tfal jigu bil-vapuri; La jibbnazza nigi lura and Dik id-dghajsa f’nofs il-port. They had also been translated...

If Roger Ebert had never written a film review or dramatically articulated his thumb, he would have still been a man to admire.   Steve James' new documentary on the late...

"The Ways of the Dead" (Viking), by Neely Tucker   Neely Tucker's debut novel is an utterly thrilling mystery set in Washington, D.C., in the late 1990s, just before the...