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This guy single-handedly ruined the word Motherfucker,' Ryan Reynolds protection agent character says about Samuel L. Jacksons hitman character in a new trailer for Lionsgates The Hitmans Bodyguard . Judging from the clip, the meta statement alluding to Jacksons infamous MF-wielding status hints at a film that likely pokes fun at itself while delivering action-packed scenes. The plot involves a Triple A-rated executive protection agent (Reynolds) being assigned the task of guarding a notorious hitman (Jackson). The pair clearly dislike each other. While sitting in a car, the hitman threatens, I will bust a cap in your ass. The protection agent queries, Have you ever said, Please?' to which the hitmans (obvious) response is, Please , motherfucker! Lots of things explode and blow up, there are car chases, loads of guns and plenty of punches thrown, including Reynolds character hitting Jacksons character. There are also, naturally, tons of expletives. To ratchet up the self-refere...

Heres the first major movie of the new year that touches greatness, and damn if there isnt a curse hanging over it. Stop-Loss , directed with ferocity and feeling by Kimberly Peirce ( Boys Dont Cry ), is up against the war raging between audiences and films about Iraq. Box-office casualties last year include Lions for Lambs , Rendition , Redacted , Grace Is Gone and the unfairly scorned In the Valley of Elah . Stop-Loss has the juice to break the jinx. The emotional battlefield on which Peirce paints her canvas strikes a universal chord that transcends politics and preaching. Peirce, who co-wrote the script with Mark Richard, takes us inside the minds and hearts of soldiers who enlisted after 9/11. Why? To get the people who had done this, in the words of Peirce, whose brother joined a unit attached to the 82nd Airborne. At first, Peirce thought of making documentary about the trauma faced by men and women in military service who struggle to re-enter civilian life after duty in Iraq. ...

A couple is torn apart by an unspeakable injustice in the powerful first trailer If Beale Street Could Talk . The movie is based on James Baldwins 1974 novel of the same name and the trailer arrives on the late authors birthday. Directed by Moonlight directorBarry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk tells the story of Fonny and Tish, a young couple who are expecting their first child when Fonny is framed for rape. Tish enlists her dysfunctional family to help prove Fonnys innocence and free him from a corrupt system. The trailer is light on plot specifics, but captures the emotional turmoil of the story. Shots of Fonny and Tish together one moment are juxtaposed with footage of them separated by the glass of a prison visitation booth. The trailer is guided by an old audio clip of Baldwin, who says, When I was growing up, I was trying to make a connection between the life I saw and the life I lived. There are days when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future ...

When videobegan circulating ofKendrick Lamars performance at the 2013 BET Hip-Hop Awards a few weeks ago, it was clear that the rapper would not be mincing words. In last nights telecast, Kendrick went straight for the jugular and his apparent target was none other than Drake. The 10 Wildest Rap Beefs of All Time Yeah, and nothings been the same since they dropped Control / And tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes / Ha ha. Jokes on you! Kendrick barked over Mobb Deeps classic Shook Ones Part II during the cypher portion of the show. The jab seemed aimed squarely at Drake, whom Lamar name-checked in his Control verse, and who just so happens to have released an album titled Nothing Was the Same . After verses from his Black Hippy comrades ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock and new signee Isaiah Rashad, Lamar hurled potshots at his contemporaries, I got my thumb on hip-hop and my foot in the back of yo ass / Aftermath get the last laugh, he snarled, before eventually naili...

After five seasons of absurdist, education-themed comedy, NBC has canceled Community , USA Today reports. Many of the actors and actresses who played the adults attending Greendale Community College mourned the shows demise on Twitter. Community: The Most Hilariously Ambitious Sitcom on TV The shows star, Joel McHale a disbarred lawyer named Jeff Winger kept things short: #darkesttimeline Joel McHale (@joelmchale) May 9, 2014 Yvette Nicole Brown, who played the conservative Christian single mother Shirley Bennett on the show, wrote, Welp, the time has come. #Community has been cancelled. Still, FIVE seasons for a bubble show is MIRACULOUS! Much love to you all! xoxo yvette nicole brown (@YNB) May 9, 2014 Gillian Jacobs, the intelligent, yet often immature, Britta Perry on the show, thanked the shows fans and its creator, Dan Harmon, and hashtagged the Greendale flags catchphrase. Thank you for the love, best fans in the world. Thank you @danharmon for the best job of my life. #ePl...

Ok, were not sure, exactly, how to say this. Its, um well right, fine [ deep breath ]. Well just say it. So Bumblebee is a spin-off of the Transformers series, those Michael Bay movies of sound and fury and volume and lukewarm metal-on-metal action that are based on a line of toys, because cinema. You probably remember him somewhere within the haze of your post Transformers -movies-screening memories, as very few human beings can recall much from those trainwreck blockbusters about good bots and bad bots, cars and jets, the fate of the world (we think?), etc. Hes the one whos yellow and black, hence the name. Good friend of Optimus Prime. Hates Decepticons. Turns into a bitchin Camaro. And the movie its good. Not just not bad. Its actually good. Imagine if John Hughes made a Transformers movie. Or: Think E.T., but with auto parts. Or, possibly: The Iron Giant, stuck in a world where only 80s action movies and vintage teen-angst movies exist. Or and heres where things admittedl...

Disney has released a teaser trailer for its upcoming film Maleficent: Mistress of Evil , a sequel to 2014s Maleficent . The clip reveals the return of Angelina Jolies villain Maleficent and Elle Fannings Sleeping Beauty as the story picks up several years after the first. The trailer teases a conflict between Maleficent and Michelle Pfeiffers Queen Ingrith, revealing the villains immense powers. The description for the film, directed by Joachim Rnning, notes that the story continues to explore the complex relationship between the horned fairy and the soon to be Queen as they form new alliances and face new adversaries in their struggle to protect the moors and the magical creatures that reside within. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is in theaters October 18, 2019. Harris Dickinson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ed Skrein, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple Lesley Manville and Robert Lindsay also star. The film is one of several live-action Disney projects out this year, including the upcoming remakes of ...

Game of Thrones will kick off its fourth season on April 6th but since two weeks is an eternity in nerd time (this writer included), the fantasy-drama has shared another round of intense teasers to satisfy fan cravings. Both of these new 30-second clips (titled Awaken and All Men) feature the foreboding phrase ALL MEN MUST DIE, a translation of Valar Morghulis, possibly emphasizing just how bloody these new batch of episodes will be. TVs 22 Smartest People on Their Favorite Shows Awake, available above, features a series of tantalizing teases including one notable throat-slitting and teases some added screen time for characters like Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) and Hodor (Kristian Nairn). All Men, available below, is heavy on sword fights and climaxes with Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) warning, If you want justice, youve come to the wrong place. The premiere episode of season four, Two Swords, will air on April 6th at 9 p.m. EST, and the show has been cranking out the tra...

The Wolverine will slash through theaters this summer, and in this new trailer for the Marvel superhero movie, Hugh Jackmans Logan aka the X-Man Wolverine travels to Japan and revisits his past. Summer Movie Preview 2013: The Wolverine Logan first awakens from a nightmare in which he has stabbed longtime love and X-Men teammate Jean Grey (Famke Janssen). The emotionally rattled Logan is revealed to be sleeping outdoors, and the hero has been traveling to Japan. He encounters an impressive swordswoman who ends a barfight with a few quick strokes, and she says her boss would like to meet with Wolverine. Logan visits the man and learns theyve connected in the past. But old acquaintances give way to new brawls, and Logan battles the Silver Samurai to save himself and his weakening powers. The Wolverine opens July 26th.

Heres a brief list of things that happened to Josh Bowmans character, Daniel Grayson, by the end of the first season of ABCs hit nighttime soap Revenge . After starting as an irresistible rich party boy, Daniel had fallen in love, only to break off his engagement with Emily Thorne. He was shot by his best friend, then tried for said friends murder, spending time in jail until the charges were dropped. His model socialite parents werent so model after all, filing for divorce. His sister tried to commit suicide. His mother may or may not have been killed in a plane crash in the season finale. Finally, he began turning into the man hed tried so hard to stay away from, his father, by stepping up to head the family company (which also played a hand in financing 9/11, but Daniel doesnt know this. Yet.) To hear the 24-year-old British actor tell it, these are just a string of normal occurrences on Revenge , which also stars lead vixens Emily VanCamp (as Emily Thorne, ne Amanda Clarke) and Ma...

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Nearly 20 years after losing to Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes, it looks like The Monstars are gearing up for a rematch. Related: Is LeBron James Funny? Rumors of Space Jam 2 have long been percolating Dick Ebersols sons were linked to the project last year but theyve picked up steam in recent months. LeBron James, the ideal candidate to replace Michael Jordan if there were to be a sequel, just signed a content-creation partnership with Warner Bros., and the studio who brought the original movie to life recently filed for three Space Jam trademarks, too. While it could all just be a freaky coincidence, James recently teased well just have to wait and see when asked about the project in a Twitter Q&A. Michael Jordans jumper still appears to be wet, and Bill Murray is probably wandering around somewhere as you read this. And now, theres Blake Griffins new sneaker commercial, featuring a cameo from well-known Looney Tunes character Marvin the Martian. While introducing the e...

Oscar royalty Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep appear onscreen for the first time in Steven Spielbergs new trailer for film drama The Post , which documents the Pentagon Papers scandal. Streep portrays The Washington Post s Katharine Graham, the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and Hanks plays the papers editor, Ben Bradlee both of whom risk their careers and personal security to help expose a cover-up of government secrets spanning three decades and four presidents. The clip opens with a TV news report on The New York Times bombshell reporting about the Vietnam War. The way [the government] lied those days have to be over, Bradlee notes. Meanwhile, Graham is battling staff concerns about her judgment based solely on her gender. People are concerned about having a woman in charge of the paper that she doesnt have the resolve to make the tough choices, says Post chairman Fritz Beebe (Bradley Whitford). Bradlee and Graham pursue the papers, recruiting journalist Ben B...

Before Channing Tatum took the vow as a movie star, he had a short career as a stripper. Out of that fun fact, director Steven Soderbergh has fashioned Magic Mike . Its not a biopic. The script by Reid Carolin simply uses a male strip club in Tampa, Florida as a backdrop to show the blood, sweat and desperation that go into making stripping pay. Tatum plays Mike, who strips to foster his dream job in furniture designing business. He and his fellow bare-assed dudes, including Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer and Kevin Nash, show the ropes to The Kid (Alex Pettyfer), a drifter who finds a home in the junk shop. The first part of the film is raunchy fun, with Matthew McConaughey stealing scenes as Dallas, the Clubs den daddy. Watching the dudes work on their dance moves in front of ravaneous women exerts a real fascination, though the script never truly examines the motives of strippers or the audiences. Instead, Soderbergh dawdles over Mikes flirtation with The Kids sister (Cody Horn). Worse,...

Kind of fitting that on the 11th anniversary of Frank Sinatras death, were consumed with his impending rebirth via the vision of Martin Scorsese. The Oscar winning director is taking the reigns of a Sinatra biopic, to be written by Field of Dreams screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson. While theres no word on who will try to fill Franks one-button shawl collar tux (or even a potential release date for the film), the mere notion of Scorsese capturing one of musics signature voices and one of pop cultures most towering figures sparked a wave of dream casting speculation and debate here in our newsroom and among our users here and over on Twitter. (Check out photos of your leading candidates here.) It seems that most of you expect Scorsese favorite Leonardo DiCaprio to fill the role, even if youre split as to whether or not he can pull it off. If he pulls it off, the Oscar will [finally] be his, h_e_n_r_y wrote here on RollingStone.com. Gimlet, however, was even less enthused, commenting Le...

Just the idea of Mark Wahlberg playing a smuggler unable to go straight sounds like a dream popcorn movie. But Contraband , based on Baltasar Kormkur's Nordic hit Reykjavik-Rotterdam , goes down in a sea of Hollywood clichs as Wahlberg ignores his good wife (Kate Beckinsale) and runs counterfeit bills out of Panama. Wahlberg could sleepwalk through this role, and does. See this movie and you'll surely follow his lead. Related Video: Peter Travers Reviews 'The Devil Inside' and 'Joyful Noise' in This Week's 'At The Movies With Peter Travers'

Trainspotting s Rent Boy, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie reunite in the latest trailer for Danny Boyles T2 , the sequel to the cult 1996 film that picks up two decades after the original cult classic. Iggy Pops Lust for Life, the quasi-anthem for the original film, is also back to pace the new preview, premiering at Rolling Stone. The clipfinds Ewan McGregors ex-addict Renton attempting to reconcile with Edinburgh buddies after ripping them off in the original film. T2 has already opened in the United Kingdom, where the film was lauded for its kinetic energy and cynical look at nostalgia while retaining the original films unique, biting tone. The sequel hits U.S. theaters March 17th. Choose your future. Choose wishing youd done it all differently. Choose life, Renton says in voiceover, a nod to the 1996 films inner dialogue. The trailer augments the first tease of the new film, which implored viewers to Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Although the...

Remember that scene in Disneys animated Fantasia when Mickey Mouse, as an apprentice to the sorcerer Yen Sid (thats Disney spelled backward), stole his masters hat and made brooms dance? That scene is a classic. Now producer Jerry Bruckheimer has fashioned a live-action epic around that moment with Nicolas Cage as the wizard and Jay Baruchel as the apprentice. It would be a gross understatement to note that something is lost in translation. Everything is lost style, substance, wit, character, logic. I could go on. Cage and Baruchel work hard to stay accessible, but the computer-generated effects come on like heavy artillery blowing away any hint of flesh and blood. The Sorcerers Apprentice should be rated U for Untouched by Human Hands.

In Peter Travers second Off the Cuff interview an informal chat in his office where Hollywood stars are grilled on a variety of topics Rolling Stone s movie critic breaks out his own magic wand (which looks like a blunt, he points out) for Tom Felton, who plays loathsome bully Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films (read Travers review of the sixth film). Felton recalled the joys of listening to blaring 60s punk at 5 a.m. while getting his make-up done on the Potter set care of Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, and revealed how auditioning for the role of Potter and Ron Weasley led to a rainbow of humiliating hairstyles. He also clues Travers in on the trick to playing a really bad guy, and strums a little acoustic guitar. Click above to watch the full interview, and click here to check out the first Off the Cuff , starring Justin Long: Justin Long: First Guest on Off The Cuff With Peter Travers Harry Potter costumes provided by New York Costumes