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Jimmy Kimmel Live! wrapped up a week of Brooklyn-filmed episodes by reflecting one last time on how much the borough has changed since Jimmy Kimmels childhood here decades ago. To illustrate how different Brooklyn is now, Kimmel reimagined one of the greatest films about the area Spike Lees 1989 classic Do the Right Thing as the gentrified Do the White Thing , an all-starsendup of Bedford-Stuyvesants hipster transformation. In the sketch, many of Do the Right Thing s famous scenes and characters are lampoonedto reflect the neighborhoods current trends: Instead of the boombox-carrying Radio Raheem, theres portable record player-toting Vinyl Raheem, played by Mr. Robot star Rami Malek. Even Samuel L. Jacksons radio DJ Mister Senor Love Daddy is replaced by Democracy Now! s Amy Goodman in the quasi-sequel. Watch Marty McFly and Doc Brown Go 'Back to the Future' on 'Kimmel'Can DNA Tests Help You Find the Best Weed?40 Albums Baby Boomers Loved That Millennials Don't ...

Less than three months after Danny Boyle was hired to direct the 25th film in the James Bond franchise, 007 producers announced Tuesday that the Oscar-winning filmmaker had parted ways with the production. Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli and Daniel Craig today announced that due to creative differences Danny Boyle has decided to no longer direct Bond 25, the film franchises website said in a terse statement. No other details regarding Boyles exit were announced, nor was a replacement announced. Its also unclear whether Boyles departure will effect the Bond 25s release date, currently scheduled for October 25th, 2019 in the U.K. According to Variety , producers were in the process of hiring the latest Bond girl and villain ahead of the December 3rd production start date when Boyles exit occurred. In May, producers hired Boyle to direct Daniel Craigs final turn as Bond; Boyle and Craig previously shot a short 007 film that was included as part of the 2012 London Olympics opening cere...

Lulu Wang was in Berlin in 2013, editing her first film, when she got the call: Her grandmother in China, whod briefly taken her in when her parents fled the country in 1989, was terminally ill. The family, however, told Nai Nai that she was just fine, that the doctor had given her a clean bill of health. Then Wangs relatives fast-tracked a cousins planned wedding as an excuse for everyone to visit the elderly matriarch one last time. The only caveat: Nobody could tell Nai Nai the truth. Even as Im going through all of this shock and the sorrow, the grief and confusion, the writer-director says, recalling the visit years later, I had the feeling that: This is a movie. The whole atmosphere of the trip, the wild way we were keeping this story up I wasnt sure how I was going to turn it into a film. But I could just tell there was something really rich there. Meet Awkwafina, the Breakout Star of 'Crazy Rich Asians'10 Best Movies of Sundance 201918 Great Bruce Springsteen Collabo...

When former R.E.M.frontman Michael Stipe watched the documentary R.E.M. by MTV , which is coming to movie theaters next week, one thing stood out to him about himself. I realized [that] part of who I am now is that I came from a place of being paralyzingly shy, the singer said in a video interview taken after a New York screening last year. Ive already subtitled this piece Watch Michael Learn How to Talk.' The doc chronicles the history of the band by using footage from the vast archives of MTV, which came on the air around the same time the group started. He also went on to praise his bandmates for being really articulate and really natural during on-camera interviews, as they discussed their music and art. I was much less so, Stipe said. So as the [doc] unfolds, you get to see me learn how to actually put a sentence together. Michael Stipe Returns to Stage as Patti Smith's Surprise Opening ActMarty Stuart on Making Ken Burns' 'Country Music'Kiss' Top 10 Albums...

Warren Beatty, in his first film in 15 years, plays Howard Hughes with the seductive charm, sneaky intelligence and bugfuck eccentricity that this marvelous, mysterious enigma deserves. Who wouldnt want to build a movie around him? But Beatty, as actor, director and screenwriter, has chosen to make Hughes a supporting role. In Rules Dont Apply, the 79-year-old triple threat puts the focus on two fresh newbies who work for the reclusive billionaire. Alden Ehrenreich, soon to play the young Han Solo and richly funny in Hail Caesar, is stranded here as Frank Forbes, the boyish driver that Hughes hires to squire around starlets for his own illicit purposes. In 1958 Hollywood, the power player brings the cuties to private rooms and hotel suites, where he sits them in the dark and serves them frozen TV dinners on lap trays. Sex after that? Who could resist? Meet the Coen Brothers' New Breakout Star: Alden EhrenreichFlashback: Cream Play 'Brave Ulysses' at Final ConcertJeff Buckl...

Dave Grohls Sound City documentary and Cameron Crowes Pearl Jam Twenty are headed to VH1s Rock Docs series, according to The Hollywood Reporter . Sound City , directed by the Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer, tells the story of the beloved studio near Los Angeles where Nirvana recorded their 1991 classic Nevermind . The film also features artists includingTom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Neil Young, Rick Springfield, Weezers Rivers Cuomo and Trent Reznor, who have all recorded or done work at the now defunct analog studio. The New Immortals: Pearl Jam Pearl Jam Twenty , meanwhile, traces the bands early years as the musicians first come together, deal with their fast-rising fame and decide to step away from it. Almost Famous director Crowe also packed in more than 1,200 hours of rare and never-before-seen footage of Pearl Jam, and tracks the rockers over the years as they continue their legacy through their 20th anniversary. Sound City will air on August 17th...

Virtually any movie, even a great one, can fall victim to continuity errors and factual inaccuracies. In most cases, these mistakes go unnoticed by the public. But some are so glaringly obvious and downright ridiculous its a miracle they survived the editing process. Here are ten such examples. See Which Movie Peter Travers Called a Rental at Best 10. Independence Day (1996) During Davids tirade in Area 51, where he bemoans the fate of the planet and rails against deforestation and pollution, he drunkenly knocks over a bin thats labeled with the words Art Dept. Either the top secret installation has its own stable of designers, or a set dresser accidentally left his garbage can behind. 9. The Goonies (1985) At the end of the film, Data tells a reporter the scariest part of his adventure was battling a giant octopus. Problem is, that scene was deleted from the theatrical release and didnt see the light of day until the Disney Channel began airing the movie in the 1990s. Is this picture...

Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones and Lauryn Hillare set to headline the annual AfroPunk NYC Festival, set to take place August 22nd and 23rd at Brooklyns Commodore Barry Park. Kelis, Danny Brown, Suicidal Tendencies and Thundercat will also perform at the flagship festival. The New Yorklineup announcement arrives just weeks after Zoe Kravitzs band Lolawolf and Willow and Jaden Smith performed, among others, at AfroPunk Paris. This year will also mark the first annual AfroPunk Fancy Dress Ball, a pre-festival event on August 21st featuring Grace Jones, Cakes Da Killa and Mike Q. The ball will raise money for the AfroPunk Global Initiative, an alliance dedicated to moving the needle of progress closer to a holistic, democratic and enlightened representation of people of color within all facets of society with the goal to create unique programming that encourages diversity in media, according to a statement by organizers. AfroPunk NYC will also incorporate a paid and earned ticket program for t...

Jimmy Fallon tapped the cast of Avengers: Endgame to create a new take on Billy Joels We Didnt Start the Fire, themed to the new Marvel movie. In the video, which aired on The Tonight Show , everyone from Robert Downey Jr. to Chris Evans offered lyrics about the history of The Avengers onscreen to Joels iconic melody. The clip, fashioned like a moving comic books, recounts each of the past Avengers films, starting with Iron Man , as well as the many villains and the background of the infinity stones. Fallon lends his vocal talents to the team, which also includes Brie Larson, Paul Rudd and Mark Ruffalo. We didnt start the fire, the cast sings. But when we are gone/it will still run on and on and on and on. The video concludes with a nice tribute to Stan Lee, the man who did, metaphorically, start the fire. Avengers: Endgame is in theaters this week. The film premiered in Los Angeles on Monday night.

Dynamite performances from Annette Bening and Naomi Watts ignite this strong drama from writer-director Rodrigo Garcia. Bening, at her blistering best, plays Karen, a physical therapist who was 14 when she gave up her daughter for adoption. Thirty-five years later, Karen has still frozen herself off from feeling, even when Paco (Jimmy Smits), a compassionate colleague, attempts to get close. Watts portrays Elizabeth, the daughter Karen has never met but who shares her mothers bitterness. Elizabeth is a hotshot lawyer, but its clear that she feels shortchanged by life. Control is what she prizes above all things. When Elizabeth initiates an affair with Paul (a subtly nuanced portrait by Samuel L. Jackson), her widower boss, its on her terms. The sex scene between these two can fairly be called chillingly erotic. The plot escalates along with the films emotive temperature when Elizabeth becomes pregnant. Garcia also introduces a third woman to the mix. Shes Lucy (Kerry Washington), a chi...

RIP Sidney Lumet. From 12 Angry Men to Before the Devil , a master director. A dream interview. A true friend. An incalculable loss for film. I sat down with Lumet in 2008 for a career-spanning talk as he was releasing Before the Devil Knows You're Dead . Read, in his words, Lumet on the movies that made him the king of New York. The King of New York: Rolling Stone's 2008 Feature on Sidney Lumet More Sidney Lumet: Lumet on Lumet: The Director Takes a Fresh Look at a Handful of the Film Classics That Made His Reputation Video: Peter Travers on Sidney Lumet's Film Career Q&A: Sidney Lumet is Still Mad As Hell

Out of all the charactersMatthew McConaugheyhas played over the years, few are as beloved as David Wooderson, his smooth operator from Richard Linklaters 1993 stoner classic, Dazed and Confused . Now, McConaugheys original audition tape for the role has surfaced, courtesy of Criterion Collection, further perpetuating the hazy, ageless legend of everyones favorite mustachioed burnout. Donning a Headbangers Ball T-shirt because of course he is McConaughey breezes through what would become two of Woodersons classic scenes: When he asks Wiley Wiggins Mitch Kramer if hes got a jointon him, and later, his infamous rumination on high school girls. McConaugheys blazed demeanor during his audition is a bit giddier than the wizened Wooderson he plays in the film, but its still clear why Linklater gave him the part. How could anyonesay no that smile? Especially when its saying, I keep getting older, but they stay the same age. 20 Best Matthew McConaughey Performances20 Insanely Great Van Halen ...

The cast of characters Gary Oldman has portrayed on film would make a pretty intimidating street gang. Theres Sid Vicious, of course, as well as lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, the crucifier Pontius Pilate, a count by the name of Dracula, assorted hooligans and mobsters even the Devil himself. Given so much opportunity to chew the scenery, its no small wonder that Oldman has earned his first Academy Award nomination (yes, his first nomination) for Best Actor for what might be his least emotive role to date the inscrutable, near-motionless intelligence officer George Smiley, in the tense feature film adaptation of the classic John le Carr Cold War novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy . For Oldman, playing the role was a relief from typecasting. Instead of coming to work and having to crank it up, he tells Rolling Stone , it was lovely to come in and sit in a chair. I got very used to sitting down. Smiley watches colleagues and informers with a lizard-like stillness. Theres a great deal of ...

The laughs hurt so good, and the guests at this shindig treat each other like dartboards for 71 minutes. Yes, thats short for a movie, but your nerves couldnt take more. The Party is the work of Sally Potter, the gifted experimental filmmaker who had a seismic effect on world cinema with Orlando (1992), based on the Virginia Woolf novel and starring Tilda Swinton as an Elizabethan gent who morphs into a woman over the next four centuries. We bring this up only to prepare novices for the fact that Potter, in films diverse as The Tango Lesson (1997) and Ginger & Rosa (2012), plays by no ones rules but her own. The Party kicks off with a stunning shot of the magnificent Kristin Scott Thomas as Janet, the agitated hostess; shes just opened the door of her posh London home and is now brandishing a gun at the unlucky guest whos knocked. Then its flashback time to set up the polite veneer of this festive occasion to celebrate Janets recent U.K. appointment as Health Minister. That fa...

For every episode of Smash that seems like its finally finding its footing, theres one that leaves me disappointed. Case in point: Last week the show crackled with promise by turning the spotlight on Anjelica Hustons underutilized Eileen and sending a snarling Ivy Lynn down a boozy, pill-poppin path. This week, its as if none of that ever happened. Ivy is kinder, gentler and sober, and Eileen is back to having just a so-so storyline again. Its official: Smash s inconsistency is starting to bug me. But its Uma Thurman to the rescue! Well, not yet, really. For all the advertising hype about her joining the cast, she was in this episode for all of two minutes. However, there was a lot of chatter about her character, movie star Rebecca Duvall , who the Bombshell execs are banking on to save the musical from financial ruin. Of course, Rebecca is immediately labeled a diva when she doesnt show up as expected, disappointing a full house of potential investors waiting with bated breath for...

Warner Bros. has given the go-ahead for the boxing flick Grudge Match , which will pair Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone as two retired boxers who step back into the ring, Deadline reports. Kevin Hart has also been cast as the boxing promoter who convinces the two athletes to fight again. No premiere date has been revealed yet, but the film will be based on an original script by Tim Kelleher, with the most recent draft written by Doug Ellin (creator of Entourage ). Billy Gerber, Mark Steven Johnson and Michael Ewing are set as producers.

The 2014 Tony Awards has added a music icon to its list of high-profile guests. Sting will grace the stage at the event to preview the upcoming musical The Last Ship , his debut as a Broadway composer. The awards, hosted by Hugh Jackman, will air live on CBS on Sunday, June 8th from New Yorks Radio City Music Hall. Sting Offers Ships and Surprises on First Solo Album In a Decade The Last Ship waspreviously released in album format last year as Stings 11th solo LP, his first in over a decade.Across 12 tracks, he utilized orchestral arrangements, unconventional instrumentation (melodeon, Northumbrian pipes) and a wide variety of guest appearances, including AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson. The lyrical concept was inspired by Stings childhood in Wallsend, England, during the collpase of the towns shipbuilding industry though it also explored themes of mortality and fatherhood. The team behind the musical adaptation includes book writers John Logan and Brian Yorkey, director Joe Mantello, ch...

Alicia Silverstone hit it big updating Jane Austen's Emma to high school in Clueless . Easy A , a teen comedy loaded with killer laughs, does the same trick with Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter . Director Will Gluck plugs in live wire Emma Stone ( Zombieland ) as Olive, a good girl faking it as an easy lay to...ah, just see the movie. The jokes are hit-and-miss. But Stone is one sassy babe and a breakout star who nails every zinger and brings genuine warmth to her scenes with her parents, played by the priceless Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci. You mean girls can eat it.

Peter Travers says that Scream 4, the first movie in the Scream series in 11 years, is overly repetitive and too cute about its meta jokes. While it does have a few clever ideas involving social networking and a cast of cute girls including Kristen Bell and True Blood 's Anna Paquin, it just doesn't come close to the quality and novelty of the original Scream movie by Wes Craven from 1996. This Week's Reviews: Scream 4 The Conspirator Atlas Shrugged: Part I The Complete Archive: Over 20 Years of Peter Travers' Movie Reviews Now Online

WINNER OF THE WEEK: Well get to Jill Scott and Bon Iver in a minute, but first, lets coronate the latest TV hit-making monarch: NBCs The Voice , which drew 12.4 million viewers for last nights show. Chart-wise, the immediate beneficiaries have been the mentor-judges most obviously, Maroon 5s Voice performance with Christina Aguilera of Moves Like Jagger, which hit Number Two on iTunes and in overall digital-song sales, with 213,000. Also, country singer Blake Sheltons Honey Bee is at Number 10 on both iTunes and BigChampagnes Ultimate Chart, which means plenty of YouTube and Facebook action in addition to actual digital sales. Voice finalists, too, are building serious online buzz, as BigChampagne ranks Dia Framptons folk-piano version of Kanye Wests Heartless at Number 47, hunky Javier Colons Angel is at Number 53 and Vicci Martinezs take on Dolly Partons Jolene is at Number 84. Interestingly, according to BigChampagnes data, the finalists rankings are largely functions of actual ...

After earning another $15 million at the box office in its third week of release, the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody moved into second place on the list of all-time highest-grossing music biopics. Only Straight Outta Compton , which made $161 million over its domestic theatrical run in summer 2015, stands ahead of Bohemian Rhapsody after that biopic pushed its domestic total to $127 million in its first three weeks of release. Bohemian Rhapsody finished third in this weeks box office, behind Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and The Grinch , Variety reports . Thanks to its $15 million weekend, Bohemian Rhapsody passed the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line on the all-time list; that 2005 film, with its $119 million domestic box office total, was Number One on Box Office Mojos list of top-grossing music biopics for nearly a decade until it was unseated by Straight Outta Compton . Prior to Walk the Line , 2004s Ray held the title for a year to end a 24-year reign by the Lor...

Savages rode the wave of buzz accompanying their first album into their U.S. TV debut yesterday, performing a pair of songs on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon . The London quartet ripped through "She Will," a dark and riveting tune marked by an icy guitar riff, thrumming bass and bursts of drums surrounding singer Jehnny Beth's explosive vocals. Afterward, the band stuck around for a web-only exclusive of "City's Full," a visceral song propelled by pummeling drums and jagged slashes of guitar. Both songs come from Silence Yourself , Savages' full-length debut.

Childhood sweethearts Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) call it quits after six years of marriage. Back off, Im not spoiling the ending. Thats how this breath of fresh comic air begins. Celeste is on a career high, spotting hot trends for an L.A. marketing company. When artist-wanna-be Jesse settles for slacking, alpha-girl Celeste loses her patience. But even after the split, they stay besties, sharing in-jokes like mock jerking off any handy pencil or banana. Their bond is hell on their mutual friends (Ari Graynor and Eric Christian Olsen), and especially on their dating lives. As expected, Jones ( Parks and Recreation ) and Samberg (a former SNL VIP) nail every laugh. More surprisingly, they also play their characters for real, letting confusion and hurt seep in between the sillier setups. Jones, who co-wrote the sharply funny and touching script with actor Will McCormack, is simply glorious. And Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep. He mixes it up...

Shakeups behind the scenes at Community wont mean big changes onscreen, NBC boss Robert Greenblatt said yesterdayat the Television Critics Associations winter press tour, according to the The Hollywood Reporter . Series creator and showrunner Dan Harmon left the show after the third season, and was replaced by David Guarascio and Moses Port. Greenblatt said the personnel swaps wont mean wholesale changes to the show.I dont know that Im the Community expert, but I think youre going to see relatively the same show that you have seen before, he said. There is a little bit more heart built in to it, but we didnt fundamentally change it. Best TV Moments of 2012: Dan Harmons Cosmic Goodbye from Community Despite underwhelming ratings, a delayed start to season four and the departure of star Chevy Chase, Greenblatt also expressed optimism about the future of Community. When asked if the show could have another season, he replied, Yes, absolutely. . . Im always hopeful for a show to continue....

Roma , Green Book and A Star Is Born will compete for multiple Oscars, including Best Picture, at the 91st Academy Awards, set to take place February 24th. The Best Picture category will also feature Black Panther, BlackKklansman, Bohemian Rhapsody , The Favourite and Vice . Roma earned 10 nods in all, with filmmaker Alfonso Cuarn earning looks in the Best Director and Best Cinematography categories. Meanwhile, A Star Is Born was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Actor for Bradley Cooper, Best Actress for Lady Gaga, Best Supporting Actor for Sam Elliott and Best Original Song for Shallow. Green Book will look to repeat its Golden Globe success after earning five nominations, including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, respectively, as well as Best Original Screenplay. 25 Movies We Can't Wait to See at Sundance 2019Oscars 2019: 16 Major Nomination Snubs and SurprisesSugar Ray's Mark McGrath: 5 Songs That Make Me CryCan DNA...

Watch Rolling Stone s Peter Travers talk about the biggest releases coming out in the freaky-deaky fall of 2007 as Hollywood tosses aside its summer Nanny Diaries for serious, Oscar-contending work like the Coen brothers No Country for Old Men starring Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem and American Gangster , featuring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Dont miss Travers take on the rest of the bruality-themed fall lineup, which includes everything from David Cronenbergs gritty Eastern Promises to the six films focusing on Iraq or Afghanistan (like The Kingdom and Lions for Lambs starring Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep) to the seasons bigtime comedies (Steve Carell in Dan in Real Life and Noah Baumbachs Margo at the Wedding starring Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh) to musicals (Johnny Depp in Tim Burtons bloody Sweeney Todd , the Todd Haynes Bob Dylan film Im Not There ). And to read Rolling Stones Fall Movie Preview which includes a first look at Wes Andersons The Darjee...

What if you could stomp on your stronger, meaner, better-financed opponents with a smart ad campaign? No, Im not talking about the Oscars. Im talking about No , a stinging, brutally funny satire of modern politics from Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain that ads up to lesson on how to defeat a despot with a Smile button. Ad exec Rene Saavedra (Mexican star Gael Garcia Bernal is stellar) is thrown when his boss Lucho (Alfredo Castro) hands him the unenviable assignment of taking on Gen. Augusto Pinchot, whose iron hand crushed every democratic impulse out of Chile. From 1973, when the CIA goosed him into power, until his ouster a quarter century later, Pinochet supervised a reign of terror, abductions and assassinations. Rene, the son of a Chilean dissident who was exiled by Pinochet, is tasked with developing an ad campaign to rouse the people to vote no against Pinochet in a 1988 plebiscite. Good luck with that. Pinochet has powerful backup. Veronica, (Antonia Zegers), Renes activist for...

Americas movie theaters have been dragged, kicking and screaming, into the digital age, not without a lot of collateral damage. Peter Travers Previews the 25 Must-See Movies of Fall 2013 Over the past couple years, Hollywood has all but ceased distributing films on celluloid reels, the medium of movies for more than 100 years, in favor of digital prints stored on hard drives. (A digital copy may cost the studios just $125, compared to as much as $2,000 for a 35MM print.) Americas movie screens have been forced to follow suit, and so far, some 85 percent have done so, buying digital projectors that can cost as much as $100,000 apiece. But not every theater can afford to cough up that kind of cash. The National Association of Theater Owners, the trade organization that represents exhibitors, has estimated that as many as 10,000 screens one in every five screens in North America could go dark because they cant afford to convert. Among those venues most in danger are independent theaters...

Valentines Day is this weekend and many couples are going to celebrate by heading to the multiplex and seeing FiftyShades of Grey . Analysts are saying it might gross an astonishing $100 million during the four-day weekend despite mostly scathing reviews. Some critics are saying that parts of the movie are so inadvertently funny you almost feel like youre watching a romantic comedy. Now we have a question for you: What is the best romantic comedy of all time? Feel to vote for a classic like Some Like It Hot or It Happened One Night , a 1990s flick like Sleepless in Seattle or Forget Paris or something more recent like Silver Linkings Playbook or (500) Days of Summer . You can even vote for They Came Together , which brilliantly spoofs the entire genre. Pick whatever movie you want, but please only vote once and only for a single selection. You can vote here in the comments, on Facebook.com/RollingStoneor on Twitterusing the hashtag #WeekendRock.

It may be time to dress Oscar in a cape. The people behind the Academy Awards announced Wednesday that they will be adding a category to the program that recognizes an outstanding achievement in popular film. It did not elaborate on how it would distinguish a popular film, telling voters thateligibility requirements and other key details will be forthcoming.The Academy revealed the news in a letter to its board of governors, which included changes to its broadcast. The ceremony, as seen on TV, will run a mere three hours when it airs on February 24th, 2019. To trim the running time, presenters will hand out a portion of its 24 statuettes during commercial breaks. The wins will be filmed and edited and broadcast later in the show. This years broadcast ran nearly four hours and its viewership was down by almost 20 percent year over year. We have heard from many of you about improvements needed to keep theOscarsand our Academy relevant in a changing world, Academy president John Bailey an...

In movie weepies, from last centurys Love Story to the millennial likes of The Fault in Our Stars and anything by Nicholas Sparks, death is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Just get a load of Me Before You. I watched the film version of Jojo Moyes 2012 bestseller surrounded by women who laughed through their tears and vice versa. The few dudes in attendance sat stoically, resigned to their fate or maybe holding back their feelings. Surprise: Me Before You isnt an unduly painful endurance test. For that, thank the two captivating actors cast as the doomed lovers. Emilia Clarke is best known as the blond, dragon-taming Khaleesi on Game of Thrones. But here she plays brunette, plain-Jane Louisa Lou Clark, from a rowdy, working-class British family. Lou becomes the caretaker for blue-blood quadriplegic Will Traynor, played with winning charm by Sam Claflin of The Hunger Games franchise. Will is an impossibly handsome London financier who was paralyzed two years ago when a motorcycle acciden...

Before you start yawning and think youd rather die than sit through a dutiful, drowsy, ever-so-virtuous biopic about Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court, get a grip. Marshall , directed with spiky humor and propulsive drive by Reginald Hudlin, is nothing like that. Drawn from a first-time script by Connecticut lawyer Michael Koskoff and his son Jacob, the film shows us a Marshall that the elder Koskoff insists was a kick-ass, party-loving, courageous and brilliant lawyer. And as played by a livewire Chadwick Boseman, who has already starred in screen bios of Jackie Robinson and James Brown, the screen Marshall is a sharp-tongued, elbows-out dynamo. The Koskoffs have made the risky (and smart) move to not to base their screenplay on the 1954 case that made Marshalls name, the Brown v. Board of Education decision in which the court declared that racially segregated public schools were unconstitutional. Instead, the film swings back to 1941, w...

Any fair-weather viewer of True Blood knows that death is par for the course on the HBO supernatural drama . Over the past six seasons, weve bid both tearful and joyful farewells to characters like Adele Stackhouse, Maryann Forester, Roman Zimojic, Russell Edgington, Jesus Velasquez, Truman Burrell and countless more. But saying goodbye to stalwart Bon Temps presence Terry Bellefleur was a tough one for Truebies, even though weve had plenty of warnings that a principal character wouldnt survive this season. Random Notes: Hottest Rock Pictures Terrys inability to reconcile his guilt over murdering his Marines superior Sgt. Patrick Devins (Scott Foley) last season (which allowed him to vanquish the Ifrit smoke monster that had been terrorizing him and his family) resulted in his setting up his own suicide courtesy of a fellow Marine from basic training. But Terry hadnt counted on his loving wife and Merlottes coworker, Arlene, having a vampire glamour him into forgetting his sordid his...