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Menace and mirth can cancel each other out. But the combo clicked in 1985s Fright Night (banish the 1988 sequel), and it clicks again in this frisky 3D remake. For that, bow to Colin Farrell. Hes hot stuff as a vampire named Jerry (really) who moves next door to teenage Charley (Anton Yelchin) and his single mom (Toni Collette). Jerry can do his undead nasty on Charleys buddy (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and glamour Charleys girl (Imogen Poots) and still tickle you with terror. Damn, that Farrell is good. So is David Tennant ( Doctor Who ) as Peter Vincent, a tacky Vegas magician Charley enlists to kill Jerry. The young lovers are Twilight bland next to the power punch of Farrell and Tennant. Director Craig Gillespie ( Lars and the Real Girl ) is wise to just turn them loose. Voil! Black magic. Related Video: Peter Travers Reviews Fright Night in At the Movies With Peter Travers The 12 Must-See Summer Movies Plus Five Unheralded Gems and Five More to Skip The Best and Worst Movies...

Tom Hanks chosen line of work, of course, is acting. Heres how he started: On a family car trip, young Tom heard a bird, and announced that fact by adopting a Shakespearean delivery and saying, Hark, a mourning dove! It got a laugh, as he hoped. So he spent the rest of car ride trying out variations on it: Hark, some cows! Hark, I need to go to the bathroom! Fortunately for all parties, he eventually developed some new material. Being the wiseass looking for the punchline at all costs carried Hanks through high school and his sitcom career. Gradually, he toned down his comedic desires in favor of his dramatic training. But the backofthe-classroom cutup never went away entirely: thats why Hanks is one of the most coveted talk-show guests in the world and why he hosted Saturday Night Live nine times (the fifth-most-frequent host ever) between 1985 and 2016, fully committing to characters ranging from a terrible Olympic ice skater to Mr. Short Term Memory. When he played an Aerosmith road...

Nearly nine months after Disney fired James Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 after decade-old offensive tweets resurfaced, the director will return to the franchise. Deadline reports that, after a series of meetings with Walt Disney Pictures head Alan Horn, Disney and Marvel reinstated Gunn Friday; the studio booted Gunn from the in-production blockbuster in July 2018 after conservative personalities on social mediadug up tweets by Gunn a vocal critic of Donald Trump from 2009 to 2012 that joked about pedophilia, transgender people and more. pic.twitter.com/gdMQjlqIjs James Gunn (@JamesGunn) March 15, 2019 Soon after, the stars of Guardians of the Galaxy including Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista, the latter especially vocal in his support of Gunn on social media banded together to pen an open letter asking for the reinstatement; Disney did not acquiesce and production on the third installment was temporarily put on hold in August 2...

For the last couple of years, actor Jeff Bridges has been making music with and touring with a backing band called the Abiders, a group of Santa Barbara, California musicians whose name pays homage to one of the most memorable lines in Bridges most memorable movie, The Big Lebowski . But that wasnt what he initially wanted to call the group. I wanted to go with The Royal We, another Lebowski reference, he tells Rolling Stone in the deep, easygoing inflection that defined the Dude in the movie. But all the guys said, No, the Abiders , man, so we went with that. The 10 Greatest Roles of Jeff Bridges Since his Oscar-winning role as the washed-up country artist Bad Blake in the 2009 movie Crazy Heart sparked Bridges interest in playing music again, he made the 2011 country-rock album Jeff Bridges and has been making the time to tour more frequently with the Abiders. This summer, hell be taking the group through the Midwest and up into the East Coast for the first time to play songs like t...

In order to properly and completely dispose of 2013s worst films, Peter Travers has brought out his sacred scum bucket for one last boo-riddled bonanza. Our film critic kicks off the festivities with Pain and Gain , the latest entry from his number one directorial nemesis, Michael Bay. There may have been two scenes worth watching in this movie about bodybuilders who kidnap a businessman, but the rest was total dreck. At number nine comes Hollywoods bizarre attempt to honor of the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, Parkland , a film about the hospital where he was treated that Travers calls disrespectful and awful. See Oliver Stones Wildest JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories Grudge Match , the recent release that pits Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone against each other as aging boxers, falls at number eight and delivers a tragic knock-out punch to the legacies of Raging Bull and Rocky . Proving number seven is actually unlucky and that even great directors can mess up...

After what feels like several months of auditions (in reality its been just over one), on Monday night we finally reached the last night of the audition process for Americas Got Talent . Whereas all of the previous episodes focused on a particular city at which the audition was being held, the final audition episode before the competition heads to Las Vegas was more or less leftovers the producers clearly piecemealed together bits and pieces from the various cities to form one final tryout episode. So what did the final auditions offer? The Good (a.k.a. The Real Business) Jacob Williams , standup comedian: Williams was a shock to our system. Unlike more craftily-edited shows, AGT hasnt served up many shocker-type moments this season you know, where the contestant appears to be awful but turns out to be spectacular. But this shy, monotone comedian from Chicago, who plays off his awkwardness in a stellar comedy routine, was a true show-stopper. His best joke: a killer riff about Twitt...

Theres no effing fun in a summer where you cant sing along with the Barden Bellas. So thank the aca-gods for Pitch Perfect 2 , a spirited sequel tothe surprise 2012 smash that showed the fictional Barden U. that an a cappella talent contest was not just a dudes game. Beca (Anna Kendrick), Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) and the gang are seniors now, with career issues. Amys bush-revealing wardrobe malfunction in front of President Obama forces them out of Barden and onto a global stage. Can they win the world title against Das Sound Machine, a coed group the Bellas call Deutschbags? Like you ever doubted. Familiarity does not breed Glee -style contempt, thanks to the superior talent on hand. Kendrick is a live wire, and her scenes with the terrific Keegan-Michael Key as a dickhead music producer are pure gold. Wilson is a scene-stealer no one is safe from, subverting the PG-13 rating at every turn. Props to her. And True Grit Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld makes a vibrant addition to the Bellas...