Sharon Kay Penman has proven herself to be a meticulous researcher that imbues her historically distant subjects with motivations and emotions recognizable to modern readers. No easy trick, that.

This movie is about one thing: highly trained assassins doing highly trained assassin kind of things. And that regard Killer Elite delivers in spades.

There are audiences that will enjoy Sweet Sour as a simple hard rock album, but most will find it lacking in creativity and hooks.

Carly Simon reveals far more about herself in her confessional lyrics in one of her four-minute pop songs than Stephen Davis manages in more than 400 pages of dodgy reporting.

Oho No and Alchemist return to their pet project with a reinvigorated sense of creativity and purpose.

'Tis an uncomfortable moment when you make a record that sounds influenced by the guys influenced by the guys you influenced. Here, ol’ Gary Numan’s done gone and let his Nine Inch Nails flag fly.

The Moth & the Mirror have proven themselves with Honestly, This World, an ambitious album that manages to hit true many more times than it misses.

The Mercury Music Prize-nominated folk artist Fionn Regan has lead a lot of living in a very short while, and while his new album has been getting raves, it's here that he reveals a strong affinity for Dylan Thomas, how his stabs at art are very much informed by his love of music, and why he might be "cruising for a bruising" in those oxblood Doc Martens ...

No one is implying that the LGBT community turn into blood magicians and that the religious march out to cage and murder them, but this conflict still echoes the tensions felt in the lives of real people.

The film's story of this Supreme Court victory lays out both its legal and moral import, and then turns back to Richard and Mildred Loving in intimate, evocative images.

It's a rare treat to see one writer experiment with multiple styles of storytelling. But Geoff Johns pulls it off with aplomb in "The Other Hero".

Woody Allen has been one of the most influential figures in cinema for more than four decades while remaining an enigma...until now.

2010’s The Golden Archipelago concluded a gorgeous trilogy, but Animal Joy presents a leaner, rougher Shearwater.

While some danced right in front of the stage, others stood back and took in the show standing still, heads bobbing, pint in hand. And it seemed like that’s exactly what people who listen to El Ten Eleven want to do: listen.

Down With Valentine’s Day! A Playlist for the Rest of Us.

A Different Kind of Truth is a return to form, but that doesn't mean it captures the brilliance of Van Halen's early recordings.

Percival Everett's on-target satire eviscerates everyone from Oprah to your English professor.

This film gives us a look back at a puzzling and fascinating moment in American history that casts a different light on '60s idealism and the death of that decade's ideals.

Truly a mixed bag--the legendary Richard Corben demonstrates why his artwork has enthralled generations, yet fails to craft a narrative of similar elegance in this oneshot that brings the best of Robert E. Howard-pulp to mind.

When I Fall Out is the first of two thematically-linked albums from Brooklyn’s the Phantom Family Halo to be released this year, and as good as it is, it leaves you almost breathlessly wondering how the follow-up will sound like.

There are incredible similarities between the analog and digital age. Unfortunately, this volume doesn't make stronger connections between the two, although it frequently wants to.

Unfortunately, the two days didn’t provide enough time to see everything, but that’s what the rest of the year is for.

While some want to question his authorship, there is no denying the lasting influence of William Shakespeare. These 10 titles prove that with accolades to spare.

This distinction between what the film's designated pros know and what you know -- or can guess, based on your experience with these sorts of films -- quickly turns tedious in Safe House.

After playing Skyrim for 90 hours, I saw something that blew my mind, and I suspect that I only had this reaction because it took me 90 hours to get there.

Twenty years (or so) in, the seminal techno act releases two very different compilations. Both succeed on their own terms.

It's not that historical revisionism exists in Russia, but that the revisionism––and sometimes the downright denial of the historical record––swings to extremes.

Rowan Joffe sets this adaptation in 1964, amidst the mods and the rockers. A mods-versus-rockers riot serves as chaotic cover for one of the film’s acts of murder.