George Ezra's songwriting journeys lead to new album
Friday, 20 April 2018, 11:15
Last update: about 10 years ago
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George Ezra, "Staying at Tamara's" (Columbia Records) George Ezra can't stand still. "Staying at Tamara's," his second album, arrives four years after "Wanted for Voyage," which included...
'Pacific Rim Uprising' is cheer-at-the-screen fun
Friday, 20 April 2018, 10:46
Last update: about 10 years ago
At the end of the monsters-versus-robots flick "Pacific Rim," a breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is closed, plugging a hole that allowed hellish creatures to emerge and terrorize the globe....
Drag queen Trixie Mattel offers folksy wisdom on new album
Thursday, 19 April 2018, 11:13
Last update: about 10 years ago
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If you've only heard of Trixie Mattel as the blonde, bee-hive wearing winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 3," then you've only scratched the surface of this comedian, television show host and...
'Love, Simon' breaks ground with a radical ordinariness
Thursday, 19 April 2018, 10:45
Last update: about 10 years ago
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"Love, Simon" is in many ways an ordinary high school film, one of those glossy, endlessly watchable and entertaining romps made in the vein of all those John Hughes classics of the 1980s with a...
Jussie Smollett finds his voice and builds his own empire
Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 11:12
Last update: about 10 years ago
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Jussie Smollett marked a breakthrough in 2015 when the TV series "Empire" debuted, launching his career after working in the industry for years, earning Emmy and Grammy nominations, and even getting a...
60 years later, Kim Novak reflects on 'Vertigo'
Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 10:43
Last update: about 10 years ago
Last fall, on her ranch in southern Oregon, Kim Novak found herself doing what she calls "my own Me Too painting." Novak, who turned 85 on Tuesday, had recently broken her left wrist — her...
Couric's Nat Geo series turned newsier than anticipated
Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 11:23
Last update: about 10 years ago
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There's a danger in planning a news-oriented television series a year in advance. But circumstances smiled on Katie Couric and her six-part National Geographic channel series, "America Inside...
The Decemberists get topical on 'I'll Be Your Girl'
Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 11:10
Last update: about 10 years ago
The Decemberists, "I'll Be Your Girl" (Capitol) Frontman Colin Meloy wanted the Decemberists' new album to reflect the mood of the times, and sadly it's even more topical than intended. The...
Q&A: Kenneth Lonergan on adapting 'Howards End'
Monday, 16 April 2018, 11:17
Last update: about 10 years ago
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"Howards End," the upcoming four-part miniseries adapted from E.M. Forster's 1910 novel, isn't Kenneth Lonergan's first foray into television. That would be the animated Nickelodeon kids show...
Supergroup August Greene serve up artisan-level sounds
Monday, 16 April 2018, 11:07
Last update: about 10 years ago
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August Greene, "August Greene" (Amazon Music) August Greene is a supergroup in the truest sense of the word. Oscar-winning rapper-actor Common, Grammy-winning pianist-producer Robert Glasper...