"Fifty Shades of Grey" has joined the 100 million club.   Vintage Books announced Wednesday that sales for E L James' sexually explicit trilogy have reached 100...

Beck, "Morning Phase" (Capitol)   It's hard to put a finger on Beck. He can steer into many moods, as he has in the two decades since he had a breakthrough with the commercial...

Big screen. Big effects. Big budget. Big box office.   It's clear that Russian director Fedor Bondarchuk was going for something, well, big, with "Stalingrad," the first-ever...

Imagine a world where scientific breakthroughs are kept under lock and key. This is the terrifying scenario in Daniel Suarez's innovative and thought-provoking new novel,...

For a documentary subject as forceful as Elaine Stritch, filmmakers may need to turn to nature — a typhoon might do it — to find anything approximate. Even the camera must warily keep its...

Leonardo DiCaprio is poking his head out of a poolside room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.   It's afternoon, and a swarm of media outlets is lined up outside, chatting with Oscar...

"Romance Is My Day Job" (Dutton), by Patience Bloom   Patience Bloom works for a publishing house that's best known for its steamy romances with happy endings.   In...

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Mike Gordon, "Overstep" (ATO Records)   When Mike Gordon steps away from his day job playing bass for mega jam band Phish, he tends to get even more experimental and weird than...

Six years ago, Matthew McConaughey was starring in a movie called "Surfer, Dude," a film about as good as its title implies. He played a shirtless surfer plunged into an...