On this day in movie history - Bohemian Rhapsody (2018):

Bohemian Rhapsody

directed by Bryan Singer,

written by Anthony McCarten,

based on a story by Anthony McCarten and Peter Morgan,

was released in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2018.
Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:

Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joe Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Allen Leech, Tom Hollander, Mike Myers, Aaron McCusker, Meneka Das, Ace Bhatti, Priya Blackburn, Tim Plester, Dermot Murphy, Dickie Beau, Jack Roth, Max Bennett, Neil Fox-Roberts, Michelle Duncan, Adam Lambert, Luke Deacon, Emily May.

On this day in music history - Where Night Never Comes, by Olivia Belli (2018):

Where Night Never Comes

Album by Olivia Belli,

released October 19, 2018.

Track list:

Your Morning’s Sweet; Sea Scales; Quiet White Sky; Spiderwebs of Clouds; The Secret Vein; February Never Dies; Butterflies Danced; Invisible Pain; Inside the Perfect Circle; The Usual Road; Old Roots; In Dry, Glassy Air; Salt Sea Wind; Happy Sand; Along a Wall; Wheeling Stars.

On this day in television history - The Rookie (2018):

The Rookie

created by Alexi Hawley

was released in the United States on October 16, 2018.

Opening theme Kings & Queens by ChinChin.

Series music by Jordan Gagne.

Cast:

Nathan Fillion, Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones, Titus Makin Jr., Mercedes Mason, Melissa O’Neil, Afton Williamson, Eric Winter, Mekia Cox, Shawn Ashmore, Jenna Dewan, Tru Valentino, Mircea Monroe, Sara Rue, Currie Graham, Demetrius Grosse, David DeSantos, Zayne Emory, Michael Beach, Brent Huff, Angel Parker, Sarah Shahi, Matthew Glave, Harold Perrineau, Daniel Lissing, Ali Larter, Jasmine Mathews, Enver Gjokaj, Carsyn Rose, Madeleine Coghlan, Annie Wersching, Jeff Pierre, Hrach Titizian, Brandon Routh, Arjay Smith, Toks Olagundoye, Dylan Conrique, Camille Guaty, Lisseth Chavez, Danny Nucci, Shawn Christian, Joelle Carter, Niko Nicotera, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Beau Garrett, Sean Maher, Mario Lopez, Joel McHale, Michael Trucco, Jim Lau, will.i.am, Stephen Lang, Felicia Day, Mark Cuban, Mitch Pileggi, Seamus Dever, Jon Huertas, Lauren Tom, Eric Weddle, Robert Woods, Alan Tudyk, Michael Cassidy, Pete Davidson, Seth Green, Roselyn Sánchez, Bailey Chase, Don Swayze, Hannah Kasulka, Christopher O’Shea, Frances Fisher, Frankie Muniz, Skyler Samuels, Rainn Wilson, Molly Quinn, Katy O’Brian, Emily Deschanel, Kyle Secor, Joshua Malina, Brandon Jay McLaren, Kathryn Prescott, Piper Curda, Peyton List, James Remar, Flula Borg, Tamala Jones, Niecy Nash, Britt Robertson, Felix Solis, Kevin Zegers, Thomas Dekker, Bridget Regan, Kelly Clarkson.

On this day in music history - The Fire Within, by Jennifer Thomas (2018):

The Fire Within

Album by Jennifer Thomas,

released October 12, 2018.

Track list:

The Fire Within (feat. The Rogue Pianist); Awakening; Girl in the Mirror; Rise of the Phoenix; Ascension; Soaring (feat. Eurielle); Because of You; Believer; Time; Glorious.

On this day in music history - Acceptance, by Sherry Finzer (2018):

Acceptance

Album by Sherry Finzer,

released October 12, 2018.

Track list:

Ode to John (Adagio for Strings); Awakening Breath; The Moment of Acceptance; Reflection; The Beauty Lies Within; In the Light of Darkness; Love Wins; Reflections; Never Far; Breathe.

On this day in music history - A Magical Christmas, by Laura Sullivan (2018):

A Magical Christmas

Album by Laura Sullivan,

released October 2, 2018.

Track list:

The Bells of Christmas; Up on the Housetop / Ode to Joy; Ave Maria; The First Noel; Waltz of the Flowers - The Nutcracker; Silent Night; Jingle Bells; Canon in D / Deck the Halls; We Wish You a Merry Christmas; Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - The Nutcracker; Angels We Have Heard on High; The Gift of Peace; Hark the Herald Angels Sing.

On this day in music history - Rossini, by Cecilia Bartoli (2018):

Rossini

By Cecilia Bartoli,
released September 21, 2018.
21-disc boxset.

On this day in movie history - The Old Man & the Gun (2018):

The Old Man & the Gun

directed and written by David Lowery,

was released in the United States on September 20, 2018.
Based on the true case of Forrest Tucker (June 23, 1920 – May 29, 2004),

and the article The Old Man and the Gun, published in The New Yorker (2003).

Music by Daniel Hart.

Cast:

Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter, Ari Elizabeth Johnson, Teagan Johnson, Gene Jones, John David Washington, Barlow Jacobs, Augustine Frizzell, Jennifer Joplin, Lisa DeRoberts, Carter Bratton, Mike Dennis, Tomas Deckaj, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Patrick Newall, Daniel Britt, Leah Roberts, Elisabeth Moss, Alphaeus Green Jr., Keith Carradine, Kevin McClatchy, Todd Covert, Kenneisha Thompson, Robert Longstreet, John Wayne Hunt, Clara Harris, Jordan Trovillion, Derek Snow, Barry Mulholland, Annie Fitzpatrick, J. Todd Anderson, Torie Wiggins, Annell Brodeur, Toby Halbrooks, Christine Dye, Tom Lepera, Warren Bryson, Kelly Mengelkoch, Asher Parran, Kyndra Jefferies, Kay Geiger, Nathan Neorr, Dennis J. Barket, Cody Gilbert, Jack Michael Doke, Alexander M. Partridge, Larry Jack Dotson, Pam Dougherty, Atheena Frizzell, Marissa Woolf, Todd Terry, Sydney Benter, Krzysztof Abbas, Joseph L. Allen, Felicia Andes, Mark Angel, Michael Lee Bailey, Denise Barone, Judy McQueen Bauer, Anita Farmer Bergman, Laurie Bird, Rick Blodgett, John E. Brownlee, Michael W. Bunch, Alejandro Castillo, Austin Caudill, William Cross, Timothy Noah Curtis, Laura Dejean, Bobby Easley, Shawn P. Farrell, Alessandro Ferraris, Reese Foster, Tristan A. Garcia, Sammy Geroulis, Jason Gerrard, Jason Marcus Griffith, Chris Hahn, John W. Harden, Al Harland, Jennifer Henson, Ray Nicholas Hosack, Noah Jonson, Zach Kaltenbach, Susan Kile, Kenneth King, Traci Kochendorfer, Bryan Kruse, Paul Kulis, Daniel Lamont, Daniel J. Le Saint, Art Leung, Anita S Martin, Bryan Massey, Gleedis Mayfield, Joe Merritt, Brianna Moreau, Misty O'Bradovich, Barbara O'Connor, Warren Oates, Tammy Payne, Richard Phillis, David Pittinger, Derek Polen, Charles Poole, Michelle Poole, Aaron Pullins IV, Alec Reeves, Lare Roberts, Steven Schraub, James Siderits, Vince Hobart Smith, Carly Tamborski, Hickory Taylor, Robert P. Thitoff, Skyler Chase Thomas, Tom Vallis, Anthony W. Vickers, Steven Terry Walker, Allen Warchol, Victoria Watkins, Jan Duncan Weir, Dominick Wilkins, Amber Shana Williams.

On this day in music history - Broadway, by Renée Fleming (2018):

Broadway

Album by Renée Fleming,
released September 7, 2018.

Track list:

Rodgers: The Sound of Music - From The Sound of Music; Guettel: Medley: Wedding / Fable - From The Light in the Piazza; So Big/So Small - From Dear Evan Hansen; Rodgers: Medley: Children will Listen / You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught - From Into the Woods & South Pacific; Lay Down Your Head - From Violet; Porter: Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor - From Red, Hot and Blue; Kander: Medley: Winter / Love and Love Alone - From The Visit; Bock: Dear Friend - From She Loves Me; Rodgers: A Wonderful Guy - From South Pacific; Rodgers: Loneliness of Evening - From South Pacific; Unusual Way - From Nine; Till There Was You - From The Music Man; Sondheim: The Glamorous Life - From A Little Night Music; Rodgers: Something Wonderful - From The King and I; Lloyd Webber: Tell Me on a Sunday - From Song and Dance; Weill: September Song - From Knickerbocker Holiday; Kern: All the Things You Are - From Very Warm for May; Sumner: August Winds - From The Last Ship.

On this day in music history - A World Away, by 2002 (2018):

A World Away

Album by 2002,
released September 7, 2018.

Track list:

Dream of Life; Finding You; To Live Again; Butterfly; Memory of Tomorrow; Stars and Moon; We Are Always; Stars Will Guide Us; The Space Between; Strings of Your Heart.

On this day in movie history - Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018):

Women Make Film:
A New Road Movie Through Cinema

documentary directed and written by Mark Cousins,

was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on September 1, 2018.
Narrated by Adjoa Andoh, Jane Fonda, Kerry Fox, Thandiwe Newton, Tilda Swinton, Sharmila Tagore and Debra Winger.

On this day in movie history - Friedkin Uncut (2018):

Friedkin Uncut

documentary directed and written by Francesco Zippel,

was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on August 31, 2018.
Music by Costanza Francavilla.

Cast:

William Friedkin, Wes Anderson, Dario Argento, Samuel Blumenfeld, Ellen Burstyn, Damien Chazelle, Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Caleb Deschanel, Gina Gershon, Walon Green, Randy Jurgensen, Philip Kaufman, Matthew McConaughey, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Monda, Gianandrea Noseda, William Petersen, Michael Shannon, Quentin Tarantino, Juno Temple, Edgar Wright, Thierry Frémaux, Walter Hill, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Mark Kermode, Sherry Lansing.

On this day in movie history - What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018):

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

documentary directed and written by Rob Garver,

was released at the Telluride Film Festival in the United States on August 31, 2018.
Music by Rick Baitz.

Cast:

Pauline Kael, John Guare, David Edelstein, Greil Marcus, Gina James, Camille Paglia, Brian Kellow, Craig Seligman, Jaime Manrique, Daryl Chin, Dick Cavett, Lili Anolik, Edward Landberg, James Wolcott, Paul Schrader, Molly Haskell, Phillip Lopate, David O. Russell, Christopher Durang, Chester Villilba, Ortrun Niesar, Dirk Van Nouhays, Carol Van Strum, Stevens Van Strum, Marcia Nasatir, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Towne, Joe Morgenstern, George Malko, Daniel Menaker, John Boorman, Tom Pollock, David Lean, Woody Allen, Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Sragow, Jerry Lewis, David V. Picker, William Peter Blatty, Johnny Carson, Norman Mailer, Francis Ford Coppola, Carrie Rickey, Ridley Scott, Stephanie Zacharek, Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jackie Netis, Mike Pollock, Joel Haberli, Amanda Sykes, Debbie Irwin, Michael Bryan, Cliff Resnick, Rob Garver, Carol Baum, Thomas Baum, Jean-Paul Belmondo, James Broughton, George Chakiris, Joan Collins, Keir Dullea, Robert Evans, Dick Hogan, Maila Nurmi, Diana Ross, Shawn Shillingford, Gene Siskel, George Williams.

On this day in movie history - Destroyer (2018):

Destroyer

directed by Karyn Kusama,

written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi,

was released in the United States on August 31, 2018.
Music by Theodore Shapiro.

Cast:

Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Sebastian Stan, Scoot McNairy, Bradley Whitford, Toby Huss, James Jordan, Beau Knapp, Jade Pettyjohn, Shamier Anderson, Zach Villa, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Colby French, Kelvin Han Yee, Joseph Fatu, Cuete Yeska, Doug Simpson, Kale Clauson, Jan Hoag, Peter Vasquez, Mickey O'Hagan, McCabe Slye, Brandon Morales, Chido Nwokocha, Cecily Breaux, Kenley Smyth, Jay Hieron, Dan Southworth, Brett Easton, Chris Fiore, Justin Rivera, Alex Marshall-Brown, Alecia Batson, Rey Borge, Monique Gall, George Griffith, Brian Hanford, Austin Hanner, Sofia Kaempfe, Abbey Paige, Yvette Saunders, Evan Whitten.

Recommended reading - The Age of Dimes and Pulps: A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830-1960 (2018):

The Age of Dimes and Pulps:
A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830-1960

By Jeremy Agnew.

Published by McFarland.

Published 2018.

Illustrated edition.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1476669481

ISBN-13: 978-1476669489

Description:

From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica – often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than quality – publishers realized high profits playing to low tastes. Estimates put pulp magazine circulation in the 1930s at 30 million monthly.

This vast body of "disposable literature" has received little critical attention, in large part because much of it has been lost – the cheaply made books were either discarded after reading or soon disintegrated. Covering the history of pulp literature from 1850 through 1960, the author describes how sensational tales filled a public need and flowered during the evolving social conditions of the Industrial Revolution.

On this day in music history - Let There Be Light – Deluxe Edition, by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer (2018):

Let There Be Light – Deluxe Edition

Album by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer,

released August 3, 2018.

Track list:

The Way of the White Clouds; First Light; Timeless Journey; Full Moon Night; A Celebration of Life; Sacred Ground; Waves of Light; Tides of Time; A Deeper Light; Dancing in the Light.

On this day in music history - The Flowers Suite, by Barbara Hills (2018):

The Flowers Suite

Album by Barbara Hills,

released August 1, 2018.

Track list:

Love-In-A-Mist; Among Lilies; Through Iris Halls; The First Snowdrop; When Cherry Blossoms Fall; On Hawkweed Bank; Sweet William; Forget-Me-Nots; Creeping Buttercup; Where Heather Grows; Hedgerow Walk; Canyons of the Black Tulip.

On this day in music history - Somewhere New, by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland (2018):

Somewhere New

Album by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland,

released July 20, 2018.

Track list:

Never Forgotten; As the Night Blooms; When Stillness Comes; In Search of Somewhere New; Evening Star; Leaving All Shadows Behind; Five Shades; The Beauty Lies Within; Golden Daybreak; Silence of a Cavern; Deeper Distance; Dolphin Dreams.

On this day in music history - Chromatones, by Darlene Koldenhoven (2018):

Chromatones

Album by Darlene Koldenhoven,
released June 1, 2018.

Track list:

Golden Dawn; Mourning Doves; Red Savannah; Swans on the Seine; Terra Affirma; Native Bloom; Vibrant Worlds; Chromatones; Prism of Time; Painted Desert; Waltzing in Planetary Time.

On this day in music history: Auriga to Orion, by Majestica (2018):

Auriga to Orion

Album by Majestica,
aka Sherry Finzer & Cass Anawaty,
released May 18, 2018.

Track list:

Alpha Orionis; Kesil’s Light; Monte Alban; Auriga To Orion; Dark Years Away; Chasing The Leonids; Flaming Star.