If ever two genres of film were inextricably intertwined, it would seem to be the frat house movie and the gross-out comedy. After all, do frats ever do anything that's NOT gross? Not in the...

"The Kill Switch" (William Morrow), by James Rollins and Grant Blackwood   Former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his military working dog Kane were introduced in James Rollins'...

Michael Jackson, "Xscape" (Epic Records)   Michael Jackson was such a perfectionist about his music that he was notorious for releasing albums on a painfully slow timeline: His...

It took a dark tale of teens and a pedophile in a Northern California suburb for Gia Coppola, the granddaughter of Francis and niece of Sofia, to also become a filmmaker.   "Outsiders...

"The Possibilities" (Simon & Schuster), by Kaui Hart Hemmings   In the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado, Sarah St. John is mourning her son, Cully, who died in an...

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Acoustic rockers Rodrigo y Gabriela have always let their eloquent guitars do their talking. No longer.   In recent appearances, Rodrigo Sanchez has tried something special, using a soft...

Let's face it, there's something about a baseball movie that just invites corniness. The hardest hearts soften at the mere sound of a cracking bat. It's hard for a filmmaker to resist...

"The Last Kind Words Saloon" (Liveright Publishing Corp.), by Larry McMurtry   Larry McMurtry, descendant of Texas cattlemen, can't stop writing stories about the American...

Like many music fans, Taylor Swift's relationship with the "Now That's What I Call Music" series stretches back more than a decade. She and her brother would listen to...