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While serving time for murder, Joe Garcia heard Taylor Swift's music and thought of the woman he loved. Last year, they were reunited.

Chateau Royale, from the team behind Libertine, pulls out all of the Gallic stops without, for the most part, feeling ostentatious or conceited.

When your quirky book becomes a quirkier movie.

The photographer presents the Black woman as an icon of withholding.

The director, who stopped shooting movies years ago to focus on writing scores and his own records, shares some inspirational work from film history with the producer Adam Howard.

Between her new film, "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You," and her Apple TV+ series "Platonic," the actress has created a diptych of stressed-out moms.

The director's new films--about Lorenz Hart and Jean-Luc Godard--form a kind of diptych, but the contrasts are as important as the similarities.

Also: Doechii's star turn, Agosto Machado's collaged worlds, Jafar Panahi's new drama, and more.

The swirling sentences of the new Nobel laureate's fiction overlay small-town politics with an uneasy sense of impending apocalypse.

The "Parks and Recreation" star has created the ultimate comfort listen--one that hinges on making her celebrity guests comfortable, too.