In his latest film, "The 15:17 to Paris," Clint Eastwood has taken his famously no-frills filmmaking further than ever before. Having already dispensed with many of the typical accoutrements of...

"Mothers of Sparta: a Memoir in Pieces" (Flatiron Books), by Dawn Davies What's in a life? Forget celebrities and superstars, or Nobel Laureates and the like, the people who live in the...

The supposedly cosmically vast Marvel Cinematic Universe, as it's called, spans planets peppered throughout the galaxy, but Ryan Coogler's Earth-bound "Black Panther," glittering and galvanizing,...

"Killer Choice" (Berkley), by Tom Hunt Gary's pregnant wife, Beth, has a brain tumor. It's going to take $200,000 they don't have to save her. Fittingly, that's how much a drug dealer across town...

The big draw following the thrilling Super Bowl was a fresh episode of "This Is Us." But, very mysteriously, there was suddenly something else big to see. Netflix surprised nearly everyone by...

"The Monk of Mokha" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Dave Eggers As legend has it, coffee was born in Yemen, when a Sufi brewed the beverage to fuel his late-night devotions. Roughly 700 years later, a...

English actress Andrea Riseborough ("Birdman," ''Battle of the Sexes") may be the MVP of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, with four films playing in Park City, Utah. There's "Mandy," a revenge...

If MGMT's first album in four years gets really trippy, there's a good reason. One song was apparently created during a real acid trip. If that's what it takes to get the creative juices flowing...

Moviegoers who come late to the "Maze Runner" franchise, which now numbers three, will doubtless have one very reasonable question: Where, pray tell, are all the mazes I was promised? Alas, the...

In an upcoming episode of "The X-Files," Fox Mulder gets mixed up with some paranormal forces and somehow believes he's a rock 'n' roll god. No, wait. That's not a TV show. It's apparently real life...