Pearl Jam, "Lightning Bolt" (Monkeywrench/Republic)   Pearl Jam's "Lightning Bolt" is a rock jukebox set to shuffle.   The Seattle survivors' 10th...

George Clooney's World War II drama "The Monuments Men" is being pushed to 2014 and out of this year's awards season.   The movie will now be released in the first quarter...

"Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination" (Random House), by Jim Lehrer   "What if?" is a tried-and-true starting point for a novelist. In the case of "Top...

Newcomers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are the top contenders at the 2013 American Music Awards.   The rap duo is up for six awards, including artist, new artist and single of the...

In "Seduced and Abandoned," Alec Baldwin and James Toback present a portrait of today's movie business and an elegy to what it once was. In person, Baldwin's even more candid,...

"The Circle" (Alfred A. Knopf/McSweeney's), by Dave Eggers   A tech giant with tentacles deep into the lives of its users is no longer an unusual thing to imagine, but Dave...

Calling all Jake Cassar’s fans! The wait is over.  Two new ‘book-episodes’ have just landed!   For all those who are eager to discover how Jake and Mel’s...

Kenny Rogers, "You Can't Make Old Friends" (Warner Bros.)   Kenny Rogers enters his 75th year with an album that blends the familiar with the challenging, seeking new hits and...

It is surely a bad sign for any "Romeo and Juliet" when its most pulse-quickening moments come from Paul Giamatti.   This latest adaption of the Shakespeare tragedy of young love...

If you saw Paul Greengrass's "United 93," a terrifying depiction of one of the doomed flights on 9/11, you know this director can evoke a harrowing, real-life event like few others. In...