Best Occasion Sweetheart Photo Album: Wedding

PBS presents a compelling documentary about the bizarre life of legendary jazz singer Jimmy Scott, who made a splash in the 1950s, when he recorded with Charlie Parker, Lionel Hampton, and Ray Charles. He subsequently disappeared for decades, working as a dishwasher and nurse's aide, only to reemerge at the age of 60 to reclaim his rightful position as an unique artist, recording many albums since 1992, and happily performing deep into his seventies. Scott's life was transformed at the age of 12...

Unleashing Robin Williams in the least flattering possible manner, "License to Wed" squanders the modest chemistry between its appealing central couple -- Mandy Moore and "The Office's" John Krasinski -- uniting its elements in an astonishingly flat romantic comedy, filled with perplexing choices. Tossed into the summer season, pic is at best a relatively harmless way to enjoy air conditioning for those who admire Williams' ability to riff, even at his most irritating; otherwise, Warner Bros. should...

A favorite in underground prog-rock circles, Gentle Giant never quite broke through to the mainstream due to their unpredictability from album to album, and the fact that their experimental, envelope-pushing music often remained just outside the realm of commercial viability. All this only serves to make them more interesting in retrospect, and today they are recognized for having made some of the most interesting and progressive music of the 70s, combining rock, classical, blues, and avante-garde...