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The second episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon The Book of Carol will be premiering on Sunday, Oct. 6, on AMC and AMC+. Ahead of the episode's airing, Cbr has an exclusive sneak peek clip to debut.

In the clip, trouble arises when Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Isabelle (Clmence Posy) realize that Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) has gone missing. It's determined that the boy has been taken, leading to some big questions that need answered. In the meantime, Daryl leads the charge with organizing a rescue squad for Laurent. The characters preparing for a possible conflict might be a tease of how the mission could potentially end in disaster. The clip from the episode, titled "The Book of Carol: Moulin Rouge," can be watched below.

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With The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live's first season wrapped, the next series on AMC's undead roster is the second season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Subtitled The Book of Carol, the second season reintroduces Daryl's right-hand woman, Carol Peletier, into the mix as she tries to find her best friend. She'll just have to take a very long boat ride to succeed.

The spinoff series featuring one of The Walking Dead's fan-favorite characters took no time to renew itself. AMC announced its second season months before the first season was even announced, alongside the news of Dead City's renewal. With Norman Reedus as the lead, there was no doubt in AMC's...

This The Walking Dead: Dead City review contains spoilers.

The Walking Dead: Dead City Episode 3

My initial comparison between The Walking Dead: Dead City and Escape from New York was, at first glance, only surface level. There are similarities, clearly, but I had no idea that The Croat (Zeljko Ivanek) was having gladiator fights in a non-union store-brand equivalent of the Octagon. Now it’s clear that Dead City is a riff on Escape from New York, and as far as things to pattern your show after, you could do worse than John Carpenter. He’s the master of genre flicks, after all; for all the emphasis on human drama and soap opera emotions, The Walking Dead universe is a survival horror universe at its very core, and touches like this show a willingness to embrace that.

Of course, you have to have something in between all the special effects and action sequences.

Exclusive: Freeform has passed on Close Up, the hourlong suspense drama pilot executive produced by How to Get Away With Murder creator Peter Nowalk and Mary Rohlich (Atypical). The series was set up at ABC Signature, which is part of Disney TV Studios, as part of Nowalk’s overall deal at ABC Studios and its cable/streaming division ABC Signature.

Written by Keith Staskiewicz, the series was set in Centreville, NJ, a suburban town just like any other … at least on the surface. Centreville high school student Rachel Guyer is on a mission to expose the truth about her seemingly normal hometown and turn her community inside out.

The pilot was shot late last year in Vancouver, with Natalie Chaidez serving as showrunner. Close Up starred Fivel Stewart with Millicent Simmonds, Anthony Keyvan, Karin Konoval, Yaani King Mondschein, Sean Blakemore, Jennifer Spence, Megan Charpentier, newcomer Alexander Grant and Van Crosby...

Exclusive: Freeform has set the full cast for Close Up, its hourlong suspense drama pilot executive produced by How to Get Away With Murder creator Peter Nowalk and Mary Rohlich (Atypical). ABC Signature, part of Disney TV Studios, is the studio. Production recently kicked off in Vancouver.

Fivel Stewart (Atypical) is set as the lead, and Anthony Kevyan (Alexa & Katie), Karin Konoval (Planet of the Apes franchise), Yaani King Mondschein (The Resident), Sean Blakemore (Ad Astra), Jennifer Spence (Travelers), Megan Charpentier (It) newcomer Alexander Grant and Van Crosby (Splitting Up Together) round out the series regular cast, joining previously announced Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place). Additionally, Natalie Chaidez (Queen of the South) joins as showrunner with Alex Kalymnios set to direct.

Written by Keith Staskiewicz (Three Delivery), Close Up is set in Centreville, NJ, a suburban town just like any other … at least on the surface. Centreville...

Exclusive: A Quiet Place star Millicent Simmonds is making her way to Freeform for the upcoming pilot Close Up. The deaf actress will be one of the leads of the one-hour drama where she will be communicating in American Sign Language.

Set in a seemingly normal suburban town in Centreville, New Jersey, Close Up follows high school student Rachel Guyer, who is on a mission to expose the truth about her hometown and turn her community inside out. Millicent will play Jen, who plays a pivotal role in the town mystery. She is self-possessed and funny and tends to retreat into a rich imaginative inner world. Due to her impaired hearing, she is a natural observer and knows her town like the back of her hand. One to normally avoid attention at all costs, she takes a courageous step forward in the aftermath of a recent trauma.

The drama is...

Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from June 24, 2019.

There's casting news, a new show from the creator of How to Get Away with Murder, and more.

Alan Cumming, who currently stars as a series regular on CBS summer drama, Instinct, has landed a recurring role on USA Network's upcoming anthology series, Briarpatch.

The first season is based on Ross Thomas' novel of the same name, with Rosario Dawson playing an investigator who makes her big return to her Texas hometown following her sister's murder.

She embarks on a dangerous mission to unmask the killer but finds herself confronting her own past in the process.

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Cumming will play a "murderous arms dealer" according to TV Line. He will return to town and cause a lot of problems.

The star's casting on the...

Freeform has ordered a one-hour drama pilot from writer Keith Staskiewicz and executive producer Peter Nowalk.

Titled “Close Up,” the project is set in Centreville, New Jersey, a suburban town just like any other, at least on the surface. Centreville high school student Rachel Guyer is on a mission to expose the truth about her seemingly normal hometown and turn her community inside out.

Nowalk previously created the ABC series “How to Get Away With Murder,” and previously worked on fellow Shondaland shows “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy” as well. Staskiewicz previously wrote for the animated series “Three Delivery.”

The pilot will be produced by ABC Signature Studios, where Nowalk is currently under an overall deal.

“‘Close Up’ tells a wonderfully layered story that illuminates the strength behind one young woman’s act of rebellion and its impact on changing the world,” said Lauren Corrao, executive vice president of original programming and development for Freeform.

Freeform has given a pilot order to Close Up, an hourlong suspense drama executive produced by How to Get Away With Murder creator Peter Nowalk and ABC Signature, part of Disney TV Studios.

This marks the first pilot greenlight since Lauren Corrao joined Freeform as Evp Original Programming and Development in April.

Written by Keith Staskiewicz (Three Delivery), Close Up is set in Centreville, NJ, a suburban town just like any other … at least on the surface. Centreville high school student Rachel Guyer is on a mission to expose the truth about her seemingly normal hometown and turn her community inside out. In the vein of Htgawm, Close Up also features unexpected twists.

“Close Up tells a wonderfully layered story that illuminates the strength behind one young woman’s act of rebellion and its impact on changing the world,” said Corrao. “This show will defy expectations and spark cultural conversation,...

“How to Get Away With Murder” creator Peter Nowalk is bringing his mystery-writing talents to Freeform, which has placed a pilot order for “Close Up,” a one-hour drama from the Tgit executive producer that “will be full of suspense, mystery and twists no one will see coming.”

Per the Disney-owned cable channel, the show is set in Centreville, New Jersey, a suburban town just like any other … at least on the surface. Centreville high school student Rachel Guyer is on a mission to expose the truth about her seemingly normal hometown and turn her community inside out.

Nowalk will executive produce the pilot, which is written by Keith Staskiewicz (“Three Delivery”) and hails from ABC Signature Studios.

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“‘Close Up’ tells a wonderfully layered story that illuminates the strength behind one young...

How to Get Away With Murder creator Pete Nowalk is headed to Freeform.

Nowalk is teaming with first-time creator Keith Staskiewicz for drama thriller Close Up, an original idea that has been picked up to pilot at ABC's younger-skewing cable sibling.

Close Up revolves around Rachel Guyer, a high school student in Centreville, New Jersey, who is on a mission to expose the truth about her seemingly normal hometown.

Nowalk will exec produce the character-driven drama alongside writer Staskiewicz. The series hails from ABC Signature Studios, the Tracey Underwood-led cable- and streaming-focused arm of ABC Studios and a division ...

Relativity released their new horror/thriller film, "The Lazarus Effect," into theaters this weekend, and all the top,major critics have submitted their reviews. It turns out that most of them didn't like this one as it only garnered up a small 33 score out of a possible 100 across 24 reviews at the Metacritic.com site. The film stars: Sarah Bolger, Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Evan Peters and Donald Glover. We've posted some blurbs from a couple of the critics,below. James Rocchi at TheWrap, gave it a great 80 score, stating: "The Lazarus Effect is a smart, unsubtle chiller that should leave even a dedicated horror fan shaken and spooked from its opening scene’s revelations to its final scene’s implications." Gary Goldstein over at the Los Angeles Times, gave it a solid 70 score. He stated: " Director David Gelb, switching gears from his fine 2011 documentary "Jiro Dreams of Sushi," keeps the...

Walt Disney Animation Studios released their new comedy/adventure film, "Big Hero 6," into theaters this weekend, and all the reviews are in from the top,major movie critics. It turns out that most of them liked this animated flick, as it garnered an overall 75 score out of a possible 100 across 33 reviews at the Metacritic.com site. The film stars: Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr., Genesis Rodriguez, Maya Rudolph, James Cromwell, Alan Tudyk, and Daniel Henney. We added blurbs from a few of the critics,below. Michael Rechtshaffen over at The Hollywood Reporter, gave it a great 90 score, saying: "East meets West to immensely satisfying effect in the vibrant mash-up of an animated romp, Big Hero 6." Alonso Duriade at TheWrap, gave it an 89 grade, stating: "Sweet and sharp and exciting and hilarious, Big Hero 6 comes to the rescue of what's become a...

Comic-Con trend pieces often skew toward the macro, focusing on how the various entertainment megacorporations use the annual San Diego event to carve out valuable real estate in the cultural calendar for the next two or three years. But a quick walk around the main floor inside of the Convention Center revealed a more immediate new development: Virtual Reality has arrived. Fresh off its purchase by Facebook and a buzzy line-around-the-block presence at E3, the Oculus Rift appeared in a few different places on the Comic-Con floor.

The most memorable–and windiest–was in a glass booth set up for...

Yesterday, Paramount surprised Hall H at San Diego Comic Con 2014 with a new Interstellar trailer and an appearance by Chirstopher Nolan. We have the full transcript of the highlights, including a monologue from Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Aka Hercules.

I cut the SpongeBob stuff as an editorial decision, folks. Not only did they mostly show a trailer that went over weird, but Nickelodeon pulled one of my favorite cartoons, The Legend of Korra, off television yesterday to switch it over to a Nick.com Digital Series. So Nicktoons ain't getting no love here. Not with a live-action Turtles movie in 2 weeks.

Transcript by the amazing fingers on the keyboard on the ground: Jeri Jacqui!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Kevin Eastman

Andrew Form

Brad Fuller

Jonathan Liebsman

Megan Fox

Will Arnett

Keith Staskiewicz (moderator): How’s it going Hall H. I’m super excited and we have a lot of stuff.

A Long Way Down

R, 1 Hr., 36 Mins.

A bright cast spackles this uneven Nick Hornby adaptation about a quartet of suicidal strangers (Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots) who meet on a London rooftop one New Year’s Eve and quickly become a fractured family. With an ace troupe like that, there are affecting moments, to be sure. But the movie criminally wastes Sam Neill and Rosamund Pike in barely there supporting roles, and the picture has exactly two tones: grim and gooey. They do not coexist harmoniously. (Also available on iTunes and VOD) C –Jason Clark

Affluenza

Nr,...

Wrinkles

Nr, 1 Hr., 20 Mins.

Directed by Ignacio Ferreras, a disciple of Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville), and dubbed into English from Spanish, this animated gem tells a story of friendship in an old folks’ home. Emilio (Martin Sheen) is dumped there by his son after one too many senior moments, while Miguel (George Coe), a white-haired Randle McMurphy, cuts deals and runs the joint. The animation artfully transitions between what is real and what the aging residents think is real. Rare is the “cartoon” that penetrates and even haunts; Wrinkles is not easily forgotten. (Available on iTunes and VOD...

Entertainment Geekly is a weekly column that examines pop culture through a geek lens and simultaneously examines contemporary geek culture through a pop lens. So many lenses!

To clarify the headline above: I liked True Detective and Fargo. They were well-acted, well-shot, well-dialogued. HBO’s mystery melodrama and FX’s Coen remix had different tones and different site-specific atmospheres–moody nihilism vs. screwball nihilism, sunbaked desolation vs. snowcaked void, Southern Swamp Gothic vs. Frozen Norman Rockwell–but if you watched them live when they aired, then you knitted together an 18-episode viewing experience representing a snapshot of Why TV Drama Is Interesting Now.

A Summer’s Tale

Not Rated, 1 Hr., 54 Mins.

Originally released in 1996 in France (but never before in the U.S.), Eric Rohmer’s sun-kissed love quadrangle remains as fresh and romantically profound as it was 18 years ago. Melvil Poupaud plays Gaspard, a mopey young man who heads to a seaside resort in Brittany looking for a girl…and ends up finding three. Quelle chance! It’s obvious from the start that Amanda Langlet’s pixieish Margot is the One, especially after a series of long platonic walks and soul-searching talks. But Rohmer would rather torture the poor cad for not...

Walt Disney Pictures released their new Angelina Jolie branded fantasy flick, "Maleficent," into theaters today, May 30th, and all the reviews from the top movie critics are in. It turns out that it just seems to be ok,getting mixed reviews with an overall 56 score out of 100 across 38 reviews at Metacritic.com. The movie stars: Angelina Jolie, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, and Lesley Manville. We've supplied blurbs from a few of the critics,below. Joe Neumaier at the New York Daily News, gave it a great 80 score, stating: "Angelina Jolie is so wickedly enchanting in the magical, magnificent Maleficent, you may not notice how transporting this female-driven blockbuster really is." Sheri Linden from the The Hollywood Reporter, gave it an 80. She stated: "A few bumpy patches notwithstanding, the new feature is an exquisitely designed, emotionally absorbing work of dark enchantment." Matt Zoller Seitz from RogerEbert.

In nearly 80 years of delicious Disney animated villains threatening princesses, nobody’s ever been as truly frightening as Maleficent, the horn-headed sorceress who could transform into a dragon and cursed baby Aurora in 1959′s Sleeping Beauty. But much as Wicked did for the evil witch of The Wizard of Oz, Maleficent digs deeper into the backstory of the sharp-cheeked villainess, with Angelina Jolie bringing her to vivid life.

Of course, such revisionist fairy tales have become increasingly common. As EW’s Keith Staskiewicz notes in his review, “The first line of Maleficent [''Let us tell an old story anew and see how well you know it"] could be emblazoned on a sticker and slapped onto the back-bumper of Hollywood,...

Angelina Jolie’s take on a classic Disney villain, Maleficent, opens on Friday, May 30, and has received decidedly mediocre reviews from critics; Jolie’s performance, on the other hand, has received rave reviews.

Maleficent Gets Mediocre Reviews

Maleficent was originally described as a retelling of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, this time from the villain’s point of view. The problem with this retelling, most reviewers agree, is that the film was made to have a PG rating, allowing it only to scratch the surface of its complex titular character.

“Here, Maleficent’s sympathetic side feels tacked-on. No doubt the filmmakers figured fans of Beauty and the Beast and Wicked would be enthralled by a conflicted character. But Maleficent’s back story and psyche are more vague and less developed than those of the Beast or Wicked’s Elphaba,” wrote USA Today’s Claudia Puig.

Puig commends Jolie’s menacing performance,...

Angelina Jolie and her threatening cheekbones face off against Seth MacFarlane and his (somewhat equally threatening) comedy empire this weekend as Disney’s Maleficent debuts against Universal’s A Million Ways to Die in the West.

MacFarlane’s Ted might have been the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time, but in this genre duel, much like his character in A Million Ways, MacFarlane will wither in the face of Disney’s scorned and vengeful fairy. That has nothing to do with the lifetime prospects of MacFarlane’s sophomore effort, of course. Comedies tend to open modestly — especially original ones. But...

Chef

R, 1 Hr., 55 Mins.

Jon Favreau spent most of the past decade directing the cinematic equivalent of two cheeseburgers (with extra cheese) in the form of the first two Iron Man blockbusters and one expensively overcooked turkey in the shape of Cowboys & Aliens. Now the former indie-scene hotshot (remember Swingers?) is attempting to prove he’s still capable of whipping up a character-driven comedy via the more modestly budgeted Chef.

In addition to directing and writing, Favreau plays Carl Casper, a Los Angeles chef with two chatty underlings (John Leguizamo and Bobby Cannavale), an ex-wife (Sofia Vergara), a lover (Scarlett Johansson...

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The Protector 2

R, 1 Hr., 44 Mins.

Thai martial-arts maestro Tony Jaa’s newest film overloads on terrible F/X that rob the film of the actor’s usual brute-force balleticism. Also, RZA plays the bad guy — and someone needs to tell the Wu-Tang master that he can’t act (or fight). The Protector 2 does have a loony charm (actual line of dialogue: “You lost your elephant again?”), and Jija Yanin Wismitanan has a scene-stealing turn as a lady warrior seeking — wait for it — vengeance. (Also available on iTunes and VOD) B- —Darren Franich

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Beneath the Harvest Sky

Not Rated,...

“I’m not known for my gun-play,” says Brady Bunch star Eve Plumb.

No kidding. So how did the actress who played Jan Brady on the classic sitcom wind up portraying the gun-toting matriarch of a crime family in the indie revenge thriller Blue Ruin (which was released last Friday and is also available to watch on VOD)? “Well, auditions are few and far between and I will audition for anything,” says the plain-speaking Plumb, 56. Her taped audition impressed director Jeremy Saulnier, who was unfamiliar with the actress’ small-screen work. “Jeremy shows me all these audition tapes, and he was like,...

More than two decades later, and we still can’t look at a cup of water the same.

Just as the rippling water in that now iconic scene signaled the T. rex’s grand entrance, so did Jurassic Park usher in a new era of cinematic innovation. Making a reality of so many childhood dreams, it marries moviemaking wizardry and emotional complexity to electrifying effect. Park also straddles a number of genres (action-adventure, family, thriller, and sci-fi, to name a few) on top of its ready-made merchandising and theme-park ride potential, ultimately offering something for everyone. But the leaps and...

When Draft Day hit theaters on April 11, it didn’t exactly set the box office on fire, earning under $10 million in its opening weekend. But the Kevin Costner starrer can take pride in one thing: When it comes to sports movies, football films are the all-time box office champs.

In Entertainment Weekly’s Summer Movie Preview issue, the infographic above compared the domestic grosses of almost every type of sports film made since 1980. Football films were the winner by a long shot ($1.5 billion total), with The Blind Side as the top pigskin picture ($256 million).

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A Promise

Not Rated, 1 Hr., 35 Mins.

Director Patrice Leconte seems to have cribbed from the Merchant Ivory playbook for a lukewarm tale of repressed desire set in 1912 Germany, where a young engineer (Richard Madden) comes between his sickly boss (Alan Rickman) and his wife (Rebecca Hall). It’s well made but drearily familiar, what with its stolen glances and pleas of “No, we mustn’t!” (Also available on VOD) B- —Chris Nashawaty

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Blue Ruin

R, 1 Hr., 32 Mins.

Revenge is a dish best served cold, and the same can go for revenge movies. Looking more like a middle manager than Charles Bronson,...

Need for Speed kicked into high gear on Friday and opened on top with an estimated $6.64 million, but the weekend winner is still undetermined. Last weekend’s top earners, 300: Rise of an Empire and Mr. Peabody and Sherman, are trailing close behind the Aaron Paul pic, and any are fair game for first place based on Friday estimates.

Adapted from the popular EA video game, Need for Speed may not even pass $20 million this weekend. Initial estimates put the car pic in the mid- to high-$20s range, but based on the soft Friday opening, that’s looking unlikely.

New Need For Speed movie received mostly bad reviews from major critics. DreamWorks Pictures released their new action flick, "Need For Speed" into theaters this weekend, and the top movie critics have submitted their reviews. Unfortunately, for the film, it seems that most of the reviews doesn't fall in its favor, getting an overall 38 score out of a 100 across 27 reviews at Metacritic.com. We posted a few snippets from some of the critics (below). The movie stars: Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Dominic Cooper, Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek, Harrison Gilbertson, Scott 'Kid Cudi' Mescudi, Michael Keaton, and Dakota Johnson. Bill Zwecker at the Chicago Sun-Times, gave it a 63 score, stating, "The best parts of Need for Speed are the actual racing and chasing sequences — a true thrill ride for the audience as the story unfolds." Michael Phillips at the Chicago Tribune, gave it another 63. He stated: "When the actors are in cars,...

It’s okay to sniff at Need for Speed at first glance. After all, Aaron Paul did. The Breaking Bad star admitted that making a racing movie based on a popular video game didn’t sound like a shrewd career move at first. But then he read the script: “I could relate to this character,” he told EW in January. “I kind of had a personal connection with Tobey Marshall, the guy I play. And it’s very character driven. It’s very story driven. It has a lot of grit and lot of heart. Just so much emotion, and...

It’s been two days since the True Detective season finale metaphorically flattened the metaphorical circle of time. And although our culture will no doubt continue debating the final act of the noir-anthology show, it’s also time to look ahead. Specifically, to look ahead toward True Detective season 2, which will focus on a whole new set of detectives in a new mysterious dark-night-of-the-soul criminal investigation. Writer Nic Pizzolatto has already gone on the record saying that season 2 will be about “hard women, bad men, and the secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system.”

But in this week...

CeeLo Green is done with The Voice, it seems. And that means one thing: The producers have a swiveling chair to fill.

Now, while I’m sad about his departure — judging panel chemistry is hard to find; just ask The X Factor — I have to admit that I’m not Simon-Cowell-leaving-Idol devastated. More than a loss, this is an opportunity. And it should not be squandered.

When the subject came up on The Editor’s Hour on EW Radio (Sirius Xm 105), we threw around some ideas. My dream pick? Bruno Mars. Putting aside the issue of his availability (he...

Entertainment Geekly gets animated this week! While my usual co-host Jeff Jensen is away on a secret mission, I’m joined by Keith Staskiewicz for a chat about the new Adult Swim series Rick and Morty, the Back to the Future riff that has already established itself as one of the weirdest new shows of the season. We also talk about Adventure Time, which shares a network, a night, and a general sense of go-for-broke madcap geekery (albeit in a way that’s much safer for children.) Oh, and we talk about Moral Orel. Because everyone should be talking about Moral Orel all the time.

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 28, 2014

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There’s more fun with food in the PG animated movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2.

Bill Hader (Turbo) and Anna Faris (What’s Your Number?) return to voice inventor Flint Lockwood and intrepid reporter Sam Sparks, respectively.

This time around, Lockwood discovers that he didn’t actually destroy his machine in the original film. Instead, his invention is now creating animal-food hybrids, “foodimals!” Lockwood and his friends have to embark on a new adventure to save the world again, but this time from hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheesepiders and other foodimals.

The $115 million-grossing sequel got high praise from critics, 71% approval, according to Rotten Tomatoes. As Entertainment Weekly‘s Keith Staskiewicz wrote: “The animation is inventive and elastic, the dialogue zippy and shamelessly punny, and the tone lighthearted and fun,...

New Release

Reaching for the Moon

Not Rated, 1 Hr., 58 Mins.

The real-life love story of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto) and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (Gloría Pires) is gorgeously shot against the lush postcard backdrops of ’50s and ’60s South America —but its emotional landscape is a little more arid. If Blue Is the Warmest Color is the gloriously messy supernova of this year’s lesbian dramas, this is the J. Peterman catalog version: elegant, tasteful, and two-dimensional. B —Leah Greenblatt

New Release

Cold Turkey

Not Rated, 1 Hr., 24 Mins.

Dysfunctional-family Thanksgivings have been served up by...

November is shaping up to be the busiest in recent memory, but the hustle and bustle is costing Broadway a few shows. John Grisham’s A Time to Kill became A Time to Close with an end date of Nov. 17, and the Zachary Levi-Krysta Rodriguez musical rom-com First Date will have its last date on Jan. 5. With as-yet-unannounced premiere dates for shows like Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe (making a spring Broadway bow), Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses (starring Michael C. Hall, Toni Collette, Marisa Tomei and…Letts — busy guy!) and Terrence McNally’s Mothers and Sons with Tyne Daly,...

New Release

Cbgb

R, 1 Hr., 41 Mins.

A chintzy dud that trashes its subject. Alan Rickman shambles around as Hilly Kristal, the owner of the Bowery dive-turned-legendary punk club Cbgb. Too much of the film is devoted to Kristal’s deadbeat style. It’s fun to see actors like Rupert Grint as Cheetah Chrome (he’s excellent); less fun is Malin Akerman as Debbie Harry (she’s way off). Cbgb makes a hash of chronology and never hints at the exciting danger this club possessed. C- —Owen Gleiberman

Argento’s Dracula 3D

Not Rated, 1 Hr., 46 Mins.

Entertaining kitsch. The mood is...

New Release

Instructions Not Included

PG-13, 1 Hr., 55 Mins.

Eugenio Derbez stars as a womanizer forced to (mostly) change his ways – and become a Hollywood stuntman — after an ex-lover dumps their baby daughter on him in this preposterous but still pretty enjoyable comedy. References to Derbez’s Jack and Jill costar Adam Sandler (whose film Big Daddy this resembles) are included. B —Clark Collis

New Release

Blue Caprice

R, 1 Hr., 33 Mins.

Make no mistake: Alexandre Moors’ hauntingly intimate portrait of the 2002 Beltway snipers, which largely manages to avoid the pitfalls of speculation and exploitation, is a genuine horror movie. Isaiah Washington...

The World’s End, the third collaboration for Simon Pegg and Nick Frost with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director/co-writer Edgar Wright, hits theaters today. Which means you should start seeing fans reenact a lengthy fight that breaks out during their characters’ nostalgic 12-pub crawl right… about… now.

Earlier this week, Pegg and Frost visited EW’s Sirius Xm channel and talked about creating the martial art they call “pub fu” with stunt coordinator and choreographer Brad Allan. “It’s like a half-remembered martial art form. I used to watch wrestling, and I can swing my arms really quickly,...

Comic-Con is where fans can get some answers to their burning questions for their favorite TV shows, films, comic books and more. Luckily, some of the cast members from the CW’s upcoming remake of The Tomorrow People sat down with Entertainment Weekly writer Keith Staskiewicz, spilling details about the new show.

Do you want to learn more about these genetically mutated — yet incredibly attractive — young adults? And what exactly is a tomorrow person? In case you never got to watch the 1973 or 1992 renditions of the sci-fi series, check out the interview below.

Evangeline Lilly is no stranger to Comic-Con. Lost, which gave Lilly her breakout role, ventured to San Diego even before it debuted in 2004. And now she’s a certified member of the J. R. R. Tolkien universe, as Tauriel in the upcoming The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

This year, however, the actress is promoting her new children’s book, The Squickerwonkers, with an assist from Weta Workshop illustrator Johnny Fraser-Allen, who worked on special effects for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. So that gives us license to squeeze in a few Hobbit questions, right?

Below, EW’s Keith Staskiewicz...

Sorry to disappoint you, Teen Wolf fans. While the MTV fan-favorite show is doing something new and groundbreaking in its upcoming mid-season finale, resident hottie Tyler Posey teases that it doesn’t involve his abs. The cast joined Entertainment Weekly’s Keith Staskiewicz in our studio at Comic-Con to talk about the season as well as to answer the age-old question: “Which is harder, pretending to be wolves or pretending to be teenagers?”

Check out the interview below:...

What do Miley Cyrus’ latest video, Elijah Wood’s just-out slasher flick Maniac, and Sarah McLachlan’s decision to write the songs for a stage musical of King Kong have in common? That’s right, they all feature in my forthcoming Ya novel Harry Everdeen and the Terrifying Acid Trip (soon to be a major motion picture and/or massive law suit). But they are also all subjects which will be discussed in this week’s edition of Entertainment Weirdly, which is broadcast on Entertainment Weekly Radio, Sirius Xm 105, at 1pm Et this afternoon.

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At least one of Mad Men’s mysteries is finally solved — officially: A press release, touting the new agency name of Sterling, Cooper and Partners, has been released on the Internet, via Facebook. What would Don Draper say?

Dated Oct. 27, 1968 and written by Peggy Olson, the release contains quotes from several of the partners (although none from Pete Campbell! Short end of the stick once again!) “A name can mean a new beginning, a chance to see yourself as you would dream to be, and leave the baggage you’ve accumulated over the years behind,” Don Draper declares, presumably with...

Entertainment Weekly is launching their “Town Hall” series on Sirius Xm with Hugh Jackman, and while the show airs May 28th, you can catch some quick glimpses right now.

Entertainment Weekly is now become its own channel on SiriusXM, and there’s a lot of great stuff to check out. Below get your preview bites of Hugh Jackman, and be sure to check out all the info and schedule information.

Hugh Jackman sat down with the Editor of Entertainment Weekly Jess Cagle during a fan Q&A session for SiriusXM’s Town “Town Hall” series. The “Town Hall” will air on SiriusXM’s new channel Entertainment Weekly Radio.

“SiriusXM’s Town Hall with Hugh Jackman” will air Tuesday, May 28 at 7:00 am Et on Entertainment Weekly Radio, channel 105. For more information on the “Town Hall,” please visit www.siriusxm.com/townhall.

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It was a busy week on and off Broadway. Disney’s Mary Poppins played its final (2,619th!) performance on Sunday. Elizabeth Olsen announced she’ll play Juliet in the Classic Stage Company’s Off Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet this fall. And Shia Labeouf, who abruptly exited an upcoming Broadway production of Orphans, resumed his bizarro Twitter feud with former costar Alec Baldwin after the 30 Rock star told Vulture that Labeouf is in no “position to be giving interpretations of what the theater is and what the theater isn’t.” Meow. Here’s a roundup of some of the...

The new Tomb Raider launches on consoles and PCs tomorrow, and it’s a bold reboot of the hit franchise (see this week’s issue of EW for Keith Staskiewicz’ story on reimagining gaming’s most famous heroine, Lara Croft). After 2008’s Tomb Raider: Underworld underperformed, developer Crystal Dynamics sought to reinvent a Lara Croft who could compete with Uncharted’s Nathan Drake and reinstate her to her prior glory. They succeeded spectacularly. But getting there wasn’t easy, as documented by veteran games journalist Geoff Keighley in The Final Hours of Tomb Raider, an app launching today that chronicles the long,...

You’ll want to be right here on EW.com tonight as Oscar host Seth MacFarlane enters “that perfect Goldilocks zone, of classic showmanship and fresh comedy that keeps everything relevant.” [Stewie Voice!]

Starting at 6 p.m. Et, our Oscars dashboard will feature photos of the red carpet, a live video feed of celebrity arrivals, and highlights from the ceremony throughout the night. There’s no need to look anywhere else! Maybe your TV screen. If you must.

And we’ll be live blogging the whole time, as usual, so join the conversation! Mandi Bierly and I kick it off with the E!