In his just-published biography, “Abigail Adams: A Life,” the University of Richmond history professor explores lesser-known sides of the husband of one president and mother of another.

There's some riveting stuff going on in “The Fourth Kind,” a tale of alien abduction in Nome, Alaska. But did it really happen?

Fast-rising hip-hop artist Brother Ali's fifth album, "Us," was released Sept. 22 and has garnered the best response of his career, but he's not letting the praise go to his head.

Jim Carrey's portrayal of Scrooge is surprisingly even-handed, but filmmaker Bob Zemeckis goes overboard with special effects in this version of  "A Christmas Carol," and the story is lost.

Vin Scully, now 81, became one of the most well-regarded sports broadcasters of all time. His life is chronicled by Messenger Post columnist and radio commentator Curt Smith in a recently released book, “Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story.” 

There’s a bookcase in every room of our house, from the three-shelf antique in the kitchen filled with cookbooks to the battered four-shelf unit in the family room stuffed with paperbacks. My husband collects biographies of famous newsmen. I collect Nancy Drews from the 1960s. We’ve got self-help, reference, humor, history and a smattering of fiction. Hello, my name is Saimi, and I’m a bibliophile.

I have no idea if AMC’s “The Prisoner” will be any good. Frankly, I don’t care. As far as I’m concerned, it has already justified its existence by prompting the release of the original “Prisoner” on Blu-ray.

"Gentlemen Broncos” can be summed up in five words: boobs, balls, barf and bucks. Lightening hasn't struck twice for “Napoleon Dynamite” writer/director Jared Hess.

It possesses the best title of the season, but “The Men Who Stare at Goats” is good in name only. The rest is little more than regurgitated Joseph Heller filtered through the unimaginative mind of a Coen brothers wannabe. It’s funny, all right, but only sporadically, and only because of the ability of George Clooney and Jeff Bridges to enliven a political satire that’s more drab than droll.

 “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,” author David Wallace Foster’s observations on piggish American males, is John Krasinski's first stab as a feature film director.