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  • Princess Diana says goodbye to Mother Teresa after a visit...

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    Princess Diana says goodbye to Mother Teresa after a visit in New York in June 1997. Diana is wearing a white skirt and matching jacket paired with white and black pumps. The look mimics Mother Teresa's simple habit.

  • Princess Diana and Bruce Oldfield at a gala dinner for...

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    Princess Diana and Bruce Oldfield at a gala dinner for Charity Barnado's in 1988. She is wearing a crushed velvet purple dress designed by Bruce Oldfield, complete with matching earrings and choker necklace.

  • Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and...

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    Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. Read the full review.

  • The Conjugal Coat of Arms for Prince William, Duke of Cambridge...

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    The Conjugal Coat of Arms for Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Conjugal Arms traditionally show the separate shields of a royal husband and wife, side by side. A red scallop, a heraldic symbol of the Spencers, was included in the design of the royal coats of arms granted to her sons. You can see it in the center of the white area on the lefthand shield and on the lion's collar.

  • On "22, A Million," Justin Vernon reimagines his music from...

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    On "22, A Million," Justin Vernon reimagines his music from the bottom up by letting technology — synthesizers, treated vocals, electronic sound effects — dictate. The songs retain their melancholy cast, but now must fight for air beneath static and noise. Read the full review.

  • The new album embraces her individuality more explicitly than ever,...

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    The new album embraces her individuality more explicitly than ever, both more autobiographical and more politically and socially direct than anything she'd recorded previously. It's a rawer, less elaborate work than its predecessors, yet still hugely ambitious. Read the review

  • Kendrick Lamar's "Untitled, Unmastered" is presented as an unfinished work,...

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    Kendrick Lamar's "Untitled, Unmastered" is presented as an unfinished work, though it rarely sounds like one. Read the review.

  • On the left, Diana, Princess of Wales, wears protective body...

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    On the left, Diana, Princess of Wales, wears protective body armour, while touring a minefield to see for herself the carnage mines cause, during a visit to Angola in January 1997. Following in the footsteps of his late mother, Prince Harry is seen with a deminer from The HALO Trust, a British charity dedicated to removal of landmines, on June 21, 2010 in Cahora Bassa, Mozambique.

  • The British Royal Mint unveiled a legal tender coin valued...

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    The British Royal Mint unveiled a legal tender coin valued at 5 pounds, or about $8, to honor Diana, Princess of Wales in on Jan. 5, 1999. The copper-nickel memorial coin, about the size of a U.S. silver dollar, bears the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on one side and Princess Diana on the other side. The coin sold for $14.95, with approximately $5 going to the Diana Memorial Committee.

  • Prince William, his wife Kate and brother Prince Harry, left,...

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    Prince William, his wife Kate and brother Prince Harry, left, encourage runners at a Heads Together cheering point along the route of the 2017 London Marathon in London. Heads Together is a mental health charity supported by the three British royals.

  • Woody introduces the gang to a homemade spork toy with...

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    Woody introduces the gang to a homemade spork toy with self-esteem issues in "Toy Story 4."  Read the review.

  • "Lemonade" is more than just a play for pop supremacy....

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    "Lemonade" is more than just a play for pop supremacy. It's the work of an artist who is trying to get to know herself better, for better or worse, and letting the listeners/viewers in on the sometimes brutal self-interrogation. Read the full review.

  • Princess Diana arrives for a dinner in Washington, D.C., in...

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    Princess Diana arrives for a dinner in Washington, D.C., in 1996 wearing a white lace Ralph Lauren dress.

  • On her seventh studio album, "Golden Hour" (MCA Nashville), the...

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    On her seventh studio album, "Golden Hour" (MCA Nashville), the singer-songwriter doesn't get hung up on genre. She's made a style-hopping pop album that infuses her songs with a relaxed spaciousness while muting, but not ignoring, her country roots. Read the review

  • A staff member at Kensington Palace looks at a Catherine Walker...

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    A staff member at Kensington Palace looks at a Catherine Walker grey silk satin dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales at a Vanity Fair photo shoot by Mario Testino 1997, and a state banquet with the King of Malaysia in 1992, during a media preview of an exhibition of 25 dresses and outfits worn by Diana, entitled "Diana: Her Fashion Story" at Kensington Palace in London, Feb. 22, 2017.

  • Now "Schmilco" (dBpm Records) arrives, a product of the same...

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    Now "Schmilco" (dBpm Records) arrives, a product of the same recording sessions that produced "Star Wars" but a much different album. Though it's ostensibly quieter and less jarring than its predecessor, it presents its own radical take on the song-based, folk and country-tinged side of the band. Read the full review.

  • "Blonde" is a critique of materialism with Frank Ocean employing...

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    "Blonde" is a critique of materialism with Frank Ocean employing two distinct voices, like characters in a play, a recurring theme throughout the album and perhaps its finest sonic achievement. A party spirals out of control, the music rich but low key, a melange of organ and hovering synthesizers. Ocean uses distorting devices on his voice to add emotional texture and to enhance and sharpen the characters he briefly embodies. The upshot: They're all little slices of Ocean's personality with a role to play and they each sound distinct. Read the full review.

  • Princess Diana attends a fundraising gala for the American Red...

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    Princess Diana attends a fundraising gala for the American Red Cross in Washington in June 17, 1997. Diana is wearing a red sequin dress designed by Jacques Azagury.

  • Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Charlotte, Prince George, and Prince...

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    Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Charlotte, Prince George, and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge arrive for a children's party for Military families during the Royal Tour of Canada on September 29, 2016 in Victoria, Canada. "With the birth of Prince George and Princess Charlotte, admirers the world over have found a new royal family to celebrate," notes "Remembering Diana: A Life in Photographs" (National Geographic, $30).

  • Warpaint's unerring feel for gauzy hooks and slinky arrangements germinated...

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    Warpaint's unerring feel for gauzy hooks and slinky arrangements germinated over a decade and flourished on the quartet's excellent 2014 self-titled album. But the band has always nudged its arrangements onto the dance floor — subtly on record, more overtly on stage — and "Heads Up" (Rough Trade) gives the group's inner disco ball a few extra spins. Read the review.

  • A grown-up Christopher Robin returns to the Hundred Acre Wood...

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    A grown-up Christopher Robin returns to the Hundred Acre Wood and his best friend Winnie the Pooh. Read the review.

  • Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, with his then-fiance Lady Diana...

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    Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, with his then-fiance Lady Diana Spencer during a photocall before their wedding while staying at Craigowan Lodge on the Balmoral Estate in Scotland in 1981. This more relaxed look for Diana was still put together well if not so formal.

  • Princess Diana wears a pink Versace suit mirroring a Jackie...

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    Princess Diana wears a pink Versace suit mirroring a Jackie O look during a visit to a regiment in the U.K. in 1995.

  • Not many albums could survive Ed Sheeran performing reggae, but...

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    Not many albums could survive Ed Sheeran performing reggae, but Pharrell Williams always took chances — not all of them successful — in N.E.R.D.Despite the Sheeran gaffe, "No One Ever Really Dies," the band's first album in seven years, is a typically diverse, trippy ride from the group that established Williams' career as a performer in the early 2000s alongside Chad Hugo and Shay Haley. Read the full review.

  • An Atlanta teenager (Amandla Stenberg) deals with the death of...

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    An Atlanta teenager (Amandla Stenberg) deals with the death of her friend in "The Hate U Give," director George Tillman Jr.'s fine adaptation of the best-selling young adult novel.  Read the review.

  • Risk-prone 13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljic, left) shares some of his...

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    Risk-prone 13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljic, left) shares some of his angst with one of the local LA skateboarding idols, Ray (Na-Kel Smith), in writer-director Jonah Hill's "Mid90s." Read the review.

  • Princess Diana appears at a banquet during an official visit...

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    Princess Diana appears at a banquet during an official visit to Canada on June 23, 1983, wearing the Cambridge Knot Diamond And Pearl Tiara with a heart-shaped diamond necklace. The necklace had been a gift from Prince Charles when she gave birth to Prince Harry.

  • Reunited for a family wedding, former lovers played by Penelope...

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    Reunited for a family wedding, former lovers played by Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem find themselves embroiled in a kidnapping in "Everybody Knows," directed by Asghar Farhadi. Read the review.

  • Princess Diana in her wedding dress on July 29, 1981....

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    Princess Diana in her wedding dress on July 29, 1981. The antique lace wedding dress with a 25-foot-long ivory silk taffeta train was valued at 9,000 euros. The designer, Elizabeth Emanuel, was so secretive about the plans for the dress that she threw away different fabric to keep the press rummaging through her garbage off her scent.

  • "Black America Again" (ARTium/Def Jam) arrives as a one of...

    Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune

    "Black America Again" (ARTium/Def Jam) arrives as a one of the year's most potent protest albums. The album sags midway through with a handful of lightweight love songs, but finishes with some of its most emotionally resounding tracks: the "Glory"-like plea for redemption "Rain" with Legend, the celebration of family that is "Little Chicago Boy," and the staggering "Letter to the Free." Read the review.

  • "Love & Hate" shows Kiwanuka breaking out of that stylistic...

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    "Love & Hate" shows Kiwanuka breaking out of that stylistic box. His core remains intact: a grainy, world-weary voice contemplating troubled times in intimate musical settings. The album announces its more ambitious intentions from the outset, with the trembling strings, episodic piano chords and wordless vocals of the 10-minute "Cold Little Heart." It's a striking, if atypical, approach to reintroducing himself to his audience — a five-minute preamble before Kiwanuka begins to sing. Read the full review.

  • Kate Middleton wears her engagement ring which once belonged to...

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    Kate Middleton wears her engagement ring which once belonged to Diana, Princess of Wales, on the day her engagement to Prince William on Nov. 16, 2010. Prince William revealed that he proposed using the engagement ring of his mother to make sure Diana "didn't miss out on the excitement."

  • A tropical island boat captain (Matthew McConaughey) and his much-abused...

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    A tropical island boat captain (Matthew McConaughey) and his much-abused ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) enter a vortex of rough justice and fancy riddles in "Serenity." Read the review.

  • Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother talks to her grandson's wife, Princess...

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    Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother talks to her grandson's wife, Princess Diana, who wears a polka-dot dress with bulky sleeves paired with a matching hat at the Royal Ascot horse race meeting near London in 1988.

  • Penniless, driven, the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe)...

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    Penniless, driven, the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) regards his next canvas subject in "At Eternity's Gate," directed by visual artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel. Read the review.

  • Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz star in the thriller...

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    Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz star in the thriller "Greta." Read the review.

  • Princess Diana with her sons Harry and William, and Prince Charles...

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    Princess Diana with her sons Harry and William, and Prince Charles watch the parade march past as part of the commemorations of VJ Day on August 19, 1995 in London. Diana famously said, "I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams."

  • Sound often says it all in Drake's world, but "Views"...

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    Sound often says it all in Drake's world, but "Views" plays in a narrow range. The trademark hovering synths and barely-there percussion edge out most of the hooks, in favor of long fades and enervated tempos that start to drag about halfway through this slow-moving album. Read the review.

  • Elton John (Taron Egerton) lays down a track for his...

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    Elton John (Taron Egerton) lays down a track for his express train to super-stardom in "Rocketman." The musical biopic co-stars Jamie Bell as lyricist Bernie Taupin. Read the review.

  • Childhood friends and uneasy lovers played by Yoo Ah-in (left)...

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    Childhood friends and uneasy lovers played by Yoo Ah-in (left) and Jeon Jong-seo (center) find their lives disrupted by a mysterious man of means (Steven Yeung, right) in "Burning." Read the review.

  • Vanellope von Schweetz (voiced by Sarah Silverman) and Ralph (John...

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    Vanellope von Schweetz (voiced by Sarah Silverman) and Ralph (John C. Reilly) zip around the web in a mad dash to save Vanellope's arcade game, "Sugar Rush," in this wild sequel to the 2012 "Wreck-It Ralph." Read the review.

  • In contrast, "Junk" (Mute"), M83's seventh studio album, sounds chintzy...

    Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune

    In contrast, "Junk" (Mute"), M83's seventh studio album, sounds chintzy — a bubble-gum snyth-pop album that indulges Gonzalez's love of decades-old TV soundtracks, hair-metal guitar solos and kitschy pop songs. Read the full review.

  • Unburdened by Batman and Superman, the DC Comics realm turns...

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    Unburdened by Batman and Superman, the DC Comics realm turns in a not-bad origin story buoyed by Zachary Levi as the superhero version of 15-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel). Read the review.

  • Princess Diana wears a Catherine Walker gown inspired by Hollywood...

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    Princess Diana wears a Catherine Walker gown inspired by Hollywood actress Grace Kelly at the Cannes Film Festival in France in 1987. The dress was auctioned off for over $70,000.

  • Lady Diana Spencer with Prince Charles in the gardens of...

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    Lady Diana Spencer with Prince Charles in the gardens of Buckingham Palace on the day they announced their engagement on Feb 24, 1981. Diana wore a royal blue skirt and top with a white bow. The outfit matched her blue sapphire engagement ring.

  • Cystic fibrosis patients Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) and Will (Cole...

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    Cystic fibrosis patients Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) and Will (Cole Sprouse) negotiate a tricky mutual attraction in "Five Feet Apart," directed by Justin Baldoni.  Read the review.

  • Stephan James and KiKi Layne play Fonny and Tish, expectant...

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    Stephan James and KiKi Layne play Fonny and Tish, expectant parents in 1970s Harlem in the new James Baldwin adaptation "If Beale Street Could Talk."  Read the review.

  • This image released by Fox Searchlight Films shows Olivia Colman...

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    This image released by Fox Searchlight Films shows Olivia Colman in a scene from the film "The Favourite." (Atsushi Nishijima/Fox Searchlight Films via AP)

  • Princess Diana appears in Hong Kong wearing an outfit described...

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    Princess Diana appears in Hong Kong wearing an outfit described as "the Elvis look," a dress and jacket covered in white pearls designed by Catherine Walker in 1989.

  • A late-night TV talk show host (Emma Thompson) faces falling...

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    A late-night TV talk show host (Emma Thompson) faces falling ratings, personal crises and a blindingly white-male writers' room in "Late Night," co-starring and written by Mindy Kaling. Read the review.

  • Princess Diana wears a black silk cocktail dress designed by...

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    Princess Diana wears a black silk cocktail dress designed by Christina Stambolian in June 1994 to the Serpentine Gallery summer party, the night Prince Charles confessed to having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, now the Duchess of Cornwall. The Telegraph, a British newspaper, lauded the dress as "the brave, wicked, historic little 'Serpentine Cocktail.'" The dress was deemed too daring by Diana until she changed her mind at the last minute.

  • The Princess Diana "White Garden" at Kensington Palace pictured on...

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    The Princess Diana "White Garden" at Kensington Palace pictured on August 24, 2017. Diana lived at Kensington Palace for fifteen years, after which this garden was created in memory of her now twenty years after her death.

  • "Everything Now" is a tighter but not better album. The...

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    "Everything Now" is a tighter but not better album. The heavyweight arena anthems of Arcade Fire's 2004 debut, "Funeral," are long gone, replaced by brooding lyrics encased in lighter music. Read the review.

  • "American Dream" is a breakup album of sorts but not...

    Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune

    "American Dream" is a breakup album of sorts but not in the traditional sense. This is about breakups with youth, the past, and the heroes and villains that populated it. It underlines the notion of breaking up as just a step away from letting go — of friends, family, relevance. Read the review.

  • A high-powered ad agency executive (Tika Sumpter, right) takes in...

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    A high-powered ad agency executive (Tika Sumpter, right) takes in her ex-con sister (Tiffany Haddish, center) in "Nobody's Fool."  Read the review.

  • Princess Diana dances with actor John Travolta at a White...

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    Princess Diana dances with actor John Travolta at a White House dinner on Nov. 9, 1995, wearing a midnight blue Vitcor Edelstein off-the-shoulder dress. The dress is so iconic that it auctioned at 240,000 euros in 2013.

  • Washington D.C. power brokers Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) and Lynne...

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    Washington D.C. power brokers Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) and Lynne Cheney have a date with destiny in Adam McKay's "Vice," co-starring Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld.  Read the review. Nomainted for: Best Picture, Best Actor for Christian Bale, Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell, Best Supporting Actress for Amy Adams, Best Director for Adam McKay, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing,

  • "Ye" isn't so much a musical statement as a 23-minute,...

    Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune

    "Ye" isn't so much a musical statement as a 23-minute, seven-track therapy session. Read the review

  • Queen Anne's (Olivia Colman) court wrestles with the question of...

    Atsushi Nishijima / AP

    Queen Anne's (Olivia Colman) court wrestles with the question of how to finance a war with France. Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), the Duchess of Marlborough, uses her wits, her body and the queen's bed to coerce Anne into raising taxes on the citizenry in order to keep the off-screen battle going. Then the unexpected arrival of her country cousin, Abigail (Emma Stone), a noblewoman fallen on hard times. A dab hand with medicinal herbs, Abigail quickly rises above servant status to become the queen's new favorite. Game on! Read the review. Nomainted for: Best Picture, Best Actress for Olivia Colman, Best Supporting Actress for Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design,

  • Prince William and Prince Harry look upon flowers, photos and...

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    Prince William and Prince Harry look upon flowers, photos and other souvenirs left as a tribute to Princess Diana near The Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace on August 30, 2017 in London, England. The garden has been transformed into a White Garden dedicated in the memory of Princess Diana.

  • "Peace Trail" — Neil Young's second album this year and...

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    "Peace Trail" — Neil Young's second album this year and sixth since 2014 — is occasionally fascinating. It's also not very good, a release that surely would've benefited from a bit more time and consideration, which might have given Young's ad hoc band — drummer Jim Keltner and bassist Paul Bushnell — a chance to actually learn the songs. But the four-day recording session sounds like a getting-to-know-you warmup instead of a finished product. Read the full review.

  • Genie (Will Smith, right) explains the three-wishes thing to the...

    Daniel Smith / AP

    Genie (Will Smith, right) explains the three-wishes thing to the title character (Mena Massoud) in Disney's "Aladdin," director Guy Ritchie's live-action remake of the 1992 animated feature. Read the review.

  • Princess Diana wears a turquoise one-shoulder gown by Elizabeth Emanuel and...

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    Princess Diana wears a turquoise one-shoulder gown by Elizabeth Emanuel and matching headband to a black tie dance in Melbourne, Australia, in 1983.

  • On their new album, "Existentialism," the Mekons turn their audience...

    Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune

    On their new album, "Existentialism," the Mekons turn their audience and the recording space into accomplices for the band's high-wire act. Read the full review.

  • Capping the trilogy started with "Unbreakable" (2000) and the surprise...

    Jessica Kourkounis / AP

    Capping the trilogy started with "Unbreakable" (2000) and the surprise hit "Split (2017), Shymalan's treatise on superhero origin stories brings James McAvoy, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson together for a plodding psych-hospital escape.  Read the review.

  • The real stars of "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" are...

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    The real stars of "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" are sound designers Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van Der Ryn. Their aural creature designs actually sound like something new — part machine, part prehistoric whatzit.  Read the review.

  • Prince Harry wears a shirt with the Sentebale logo as...

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    Prince Harry wears a shirt with the Sentebale logo as he holds a small girl while on visit to the Good Shepherd home, during a return visit to Lesotho in Southern Africa, 25 April 2006. The Prince was in the country to launch his new charity called "Sentebale," which means "forget me not" in memory of his mother Diana Princess of Wales.

  • In "First Man," Ryan Gosling reteams with "La La Land"...

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    In "First Man," Ryan Gosling reteams with "La La Land" director Damien Chazelle to relay the story of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. Read the review.

  • On "Here" (Merge), the band's first album in six years...

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    On "Here" (Merge), the band's first album in six years and 10th overall, the front line of Norman Blake, Gerard Love and Raymond McGinley once again trades songs (four each) and lead vocals, over sturdily constructed pop-rock arrangements. But the band has taken some subtle evolutionary turns to where it's now a faint shadow of its "Bandwagonesque" incarnation. Read the review.

  • When Aretha Franklin recorded her bestselling gospel album in early...

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    When Aretha Franklin recorded her bestselling gospel album in early 1972, director Sydney Pollack's camera crew shot many hours of footage, unseen publicly until now. "Amazing Grace" is now in theaters.  Read the review.

  • Kanye West's "The Life of Pablo" (GOOD/Def Jam) sounds like...

    NBC

    Kanye West's "The Life of Pablo" (GOOD/Def Jam) sounds like a work in progress rather than a finished album. It's a mess, more a series of marketing opportunities in which West changed the album title and the track listing multiple times, to the point where the very thing that made West tolerable despite a penchant for tripping over his own ego — the music itself — became anti-climactic. Read the review.

  • Six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of...

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    Six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham). Read the review.

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Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their third child, Kensington Palace said Monday.

Kensington Palace made the pregnancy announcement as they said that the former Kate Middleton was not feeling well enough to attend an engagement later in the day. As with her other two pregnancies, the duchess is suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum, or acute morning sickness. Kate is being cared for at her Kensington Palace home in London.

“The queen and members of both families are delighted with the news,” the palace said in a statement.

William and Kate, both 35, already have two children: Prince George, 4, and Princess Charlotte, 2.

The announcement came at a time when the royal couple is due to mark a milestone in the life of their young family: They are set to send George to school for the first time on Thursday.

Their choice of Thomas’s Battersea in south London indicated that the Cambridges were settling into their Kensington Palace apartment, having moved recently from their Norfolk home Anmer Hall.

No details were immediately available about when the third baby is due, but betting agencies were quick to start offering odds on possible names for the soon-to-be-born child in the House of Windsor.

Paddy Power offered 8-to-1 odds on Alice. Also popular was Diana, after Prince William’s mother, particularly given the timing of the announcement.

Together with Prince Harry, William and Kate have taken a leading role in marking the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death. Last week the royals toured the garden of their Kensington Palace home to remember the princes’ mother and celebrate her contributions to their family and to the monarchy.

“Given the recent anniversary, there’ll be plenty of interest in the name Diana if the baby is a girl,” the agency said.

The royals have said from the time of their engagement that they wanted to have a family — the only question was how many children they wished for. Royal watchers recorded every aside for clues as to what the plans might be.

When asked on a royal tour in Singapore in 2012 about how many children he wanted, William said he was “thinking about having two.”

More recently, during a royal tour of Poland, Kate joked about a third child when given a cuddly toy designed to soothe tiny babies.

Kate thanked the well-wisher for the present and turned to William. “We will just have to have more babies,” she said laughing.

Kate is the eldest of three siblings, and reportedly had a very happy childhood. William has a younger brother, Prince Harry.

The royal couple can also be seen as following in the footsteps of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, who have four children.

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