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The baby-faced getaway driver in Edgar Wright’s sensationally entertaining Baby Driver is called Baby, reasonably enough; as played by Ansel Elgort, he’s mysteriously self-contained and improbably sweet-spirited. Although Baby wasn’t born with earbuds attached to his head, they’ve become part of his anatomy.

After Jim DeRogatis, the veteran Chicago rock critic, reported for months on a stunning story about R&B singer R. Kelly and the young women said to be under his psychological and sexual control, it came time to get it published.

Two non-franchise, non-superhero movies topped the box office for the first time this summer, beating “War for the Planet of the Apes” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”

There is perhaps no single emoji to reflect just how savagely film critics are trashing “The Emoji Movie.” A succession of skulls and dumpster fires would only begin to suggest the intensity of the verbal carpet-bombing.

While common sense probably could have saved any disappointment — along with preshow interviews where Phelps assured everyone that he wouldn’t really race next to a shark in open water — many viewers were not pleased.

Part of what makes such a meeting so damn adorable is that it is unexpected or serendipitous. It might start with two people who can’t stand each other, carpooling together from Chicago to New York. Or with a businessman hiring a prostitute for the night. However opposite the characters’ goals or personalities are at the beginning of the film, by the end they’re on the same side, aligned and smitten.

“I put my faith in these lyrics,” Kendrick Lamar rapped on “PRIDE.” from this year’s acclaimed “DAMN.” album. When he performed the song in the packed Verizon Center on Friday night, he stood on the stage by himself, just as he had most of the night, with that faith on display. No over-the-top spectacle, no special effects or floating stages — only a man, a mic and a couple thousand adoring fans awaiting the gospel of Kendrick Lamar.

During a promotional tour of his newly released memoir, “But Seriously,” the 58-year-old American tennis legend said that ­23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams would be ranked “like 700 in the world” if she played on the men’s tour.

Late in the first season of the TV series “I Love Dick,” which director Jill Soloway adapted from Chris Kraus’s 1997 novel of the same name, two men have a drink and a conversation. The men are Sylvère, an academic married to a woman named Chris, and an artist named Dick, with whom Chris has become madly, feverishly and increasingly publicly obsessed. Chris has been writing letters to Dick and posting them all over their tiny town. Dick is miserable and furious.

The Chainsmokers allegedly make dance music, but the illusion evaporates in 3-D when you find out that these guys can’t dance.

Maria Menounos has become familiar with bright studio lights, but lately the longtime television personality has been resting under drab hospital fluorescents.

Stuart Zicherman knows he has an enviable job as a Hollywood television writer. Right now, he’s working on plot twists for the acclaimed HBO series “Divorce,” starring Sarah Jessica Parker. Last year, he worked on Showtime’s “The Affair.” Before that, he wrote for “The Americans” on cable’s FX.

Billed as a story about the L.A. origins of crack cocaine, FX’s engaging yet depressing 10-episode drama “Snowfall” (premiering Wednesday) is really about the many ways in which the drug trade recalibrates and eventually rots the morals of the people who engage in it.

There was a conspicuous addition to the cast during the Season 7 premiere of “Game of Thrones.” As Arya Stark made her way on horseback through the Riverlands after murdering the entire Frey clan, she was captivated by the sound of harmonic cheesiness floating on the breeze. She had stumbled upon a musically-inclined group of soldiers, including one played by pop star Ed Sheeran, who was leading a folk song.

There’s big news for “Game of Thrones” fans. HBO has hired four writers to develop spinoffs of the show, which wraps next year. That doesn’t necessarily mean all will make it to the screen. But there will almost undoubtedly be more sinister scheming in Westeros and Essos in our future.

In the course of his majorly prolific career, Stephen King has collaborated successfully on a number of projects, notably “The Talisman” and “Black House,” dark epic fantasies co-written with Peter Straub.

When it comes to feuds, celebrities vs. tabloids is all-too-common — stars routinely talk about how they’re disgusted by tabloid rumors. Of course, it’s all a delicate balancing act, because those same famous folks will often rely on celebrity weeklies to boost their profile.

“Wonder Woman” is the first masterpiece in Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment’s Justice League era.

That might sound puzzling, given that Grisham has sold more than 300 million copies of his thrillers. But in the rare-edition room at Lemuria Books in Jackson, Miss., there’s Grisham’s first novel, “A Time to Kill,” written when he was still working as a small-town lawyer. The print run was 5,000 copies. Every expense was spared.

The miracle of rap music is that it metabolizes wild-styles faster than any other American art form — which means outsiders can bum-rush the center with a quickness. Remember when Lil Yachty dropped his debut mixtape last spring?