Josh Trank will direct one of the planned stand-alone "Star Wars" films.   Lucasfilm announced Wednesday that the 30-year-old filmmaker will helm one of the two announced...

The comic duo of Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill began with an intentionally bad idea.   Hill called up Tatum: "So I have this probably terrible idea, but I want to see if you're...

"I Am Pilgrim" (Atria/Emily Bestler Books), by Terry Hayes   A man with ties to a top-secret unit of the federal government has to fight his instincts to stop a madman in Terry...

A book that was launched on Thursday 5 June tells the remarkable story of an organisation born in 1910 and still existing, albeit on its last legs these days.   In fact, the Unione Cattolica...

The Black Keys, "Turn Blue" (Nonesuch Records)   It's been four years and several Grammy wins since the Black Keys' breakthrough album, "Brothers," and the kings...

Things are always worse the second time around, the deputy police chief warns the buddy-cop team of Jenko and Schmidt in "22 Jump Street."   He's talking about their next...

"Euphoria" (Atlantic Monthly Press), by Lily King   Lily King's new novel, "Euphoria," unfolds on a South Pacific island where a trio of young anthropologists lives...

John Fullbright, "Songs" (Blue Dirt/Thirty Tigers)   The 12 songs on John Fullbright's "Songs" are so sturdy they need little adornment, and many are performed solo...

The time-shifting sci-fi thriller "Edge of Tomorrow" has perfectly encapsulated what it is to be a summertime moviegoer. We're dropped into a battlefield of digital effects with the fate...

Hillary Rodham Clinton tersely defended her initial opposition to gay marriage, denying in a radio interview that political reasons were behind her shift last year to supporting same-sex marriage. She...