Benedict Cumberbatch's Dr. Strange makes a balloon animal for Jimmy Kimmel

Jimmy Kimmels Marvel Week continued strong Tuesday with the world premiere of the firstDoctor Strangeteaser trailer. Before playing the clip, however, Kimmel had star Benedict Cumberbatch video in to explain a few things. At first, Kimmel wasnt sure who Dr. Credit: ABC Strange was: a magician, maybe? The last point interested Kimmel more than the rest. Wait, he does childrens parties? Strange quickly explained, that was just his dry English humor....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 91 words · Christina Burton

Benjamin Saenz's 'The Inexplicable Logic of My Life': Read an excerpt

I felt the cool breeze on my face as I walked out the front door. The summer had been long and lazy, crowded with hot, and rainless days. Those summer days were over now. Credit: Cybele Knowles The first day of school. Id always wondered what it would be like to be a senior. And now I was about to find out what all the wondering was about. That was the story according to Sam, my best friend....

May 1, 2025 · 9 min · 1714 words · Tiffany Phillips

Bentonville Film Festival 2016 lineup

The Bentonville Film Festival has announced its 2016 lineup. Its inaugural event last year granted distribution to 87 percent of its competition films. But no one believes hernot her brother, not the cops. Credit: Gabriel Olsen/FilmMagic An Act of Love(Director: Scott Sheppard)In 2013, Rev. Frank Schaefer gained national attention for officiating his sons same-sex wedding. The Schaefer family was drawn into a movement for LGBTQ equality in the nations second largest protestant denomination....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 133 words · John Garcia

Bernie Mac's wife tearfully remembers her final moments with the late comedian

I said, Im here; Im waiting for you; Ill take care of you. Just dont… dont die. Mac died of complications due to pneumonia on Aug. 8, 2008. Credit: OWN He had long suffered sarcoidosis, a chronic condition involving organ inflammation. McCullough then had to leave the hospital room, and was informed later that her husband had died. And I just, What am I going to do?,' McCullough remembered her reaction....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 117 words · Caitlin Vaughn

Bernie Sanders, Seth Meyers in Ya Bernt segment

The 1 percent, what do you need all that money for? If I didnt know any better Id think you were trying to compensate for something. How is it possible that some of you are paying a lower tax rate than your secretaries? Credit: NBC That makes less sense than the plot ofBatman v Superman.1 percent, ya Bernt. To fight back, a photo was unearthed of Meyers on a particularly bad hair day....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 123 words · Anne Chapman

Bernie Sanders: Movie cameo from 1999 resurfaces

We had a blast, Guigui says of directing Sanders. I remember it like it was yesterday. I think he did one take he nailed it in one take. Credit: Martin Guigui He stuck to the script, and he knew what he wanted to do. By the time Guigui started working onX-Girlfriend, his first film, Sanders had become a congressman. Who was I going to cast, living in Vermont? I cast people I knew, and when I was writing the rabbi role, I thought of Bernie....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 154 words · Teresa Watson

Bernie Worrell dead: Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist dies at 72

His wife, Judie Worrell,confirmed the newsto the Associated Press. She had announced earlier this year that her husband had been diagnosed withstage-four lung cancer. A statement posted toWorrells Facebook pageFriday said, Bernie transitioned Home to The Great Spirit. Credit: Erika Goldring/Getty Images Rest in peace, my love you definitely made the world a better place. Till we meet again, vaya con Dios. He gave the freewheeling group a structural foundation while also exploring his own musical ideas....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 104 words · Timothy Ross

Best actors playing two roles in the same show

Is it just us, or has TV been double-dipping in the character pool a lot lately? Just call them (drumroll, yo!) RATING:1 BANANA.Frank and Black Jacks resemblance is entirely plausible. Credit: Starz; Jonathan Hession/SHOWTIME; The CW Its one unexpected, hair-raising return. Himself …and reappeared this season as himself to help Morgan find his missing dog. Mindy never forgets a suitor. Starz Maybe Matt is Meyers alias? Liza never saw a second dirtbag love interest for Kelsey coming....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 109 words · Charles Vaughn

Best and Worst TV Shows as Movies

Our hero, Speed, spends all 135 painful minutes chasing after the same thing. AsEW’s Lisa Schwarzbaumput it, ‘‘Forget what happens on the racetrack. This is one vehicle that stalls.’’ Everett Collection All that and it had a Johnny Depp cameo. Everybody wins well, except up-to-no-good PhysEd teacher Mr. Walters' (Rob Riggle) nether regions. The lame jokes didn’t help. Craig Blankenhorn But with six writers and eight producers, we can’t say we’re surprised....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 182 words · Christine White

Best Movie Spoofs

RELEASED:1977 DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:Approximately $15 million Airplane! SPOOFED:Zero Hour!(1957). RELEASED:1980 DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:$83.5 million Top Secret! Everett Collection SPOOFED:War movies, Elvis Presley musicals, andThe Blue Lagoon(1980). RELEASED:1989 DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:$6.1 million Hot Shots! RELEASED:1995 DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:$10.8 million Jane Austen’s Mafia! SPOOFED:Mafia movies, includingThe Godfather(1972). RELEASED:1998 DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:$19.9 million The Scary Movie Series SPOOFED:Horror movies. RELEASED:2001 DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:$38.2 million Kung Pow! Everett Collection Enter the Fist SPOOFED:Martial arts movies....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 140 words · David Bauer

Best Movies of 2016 (So Far)

‘The Lobster,’ ‘Green Room,’ ‘The Jungle Book,’ and More 1. (Read EW’s full review.) (Read EW’s full review.) against a clubful of rabid skinheads hell-bent on covering up a murder. Patrick Stewart steals the show as a neo-Nazi oozing calm menace. (Read EW’s full review.) (Read EW’s full review.) (Read EW’s full review.) ‘Fireworks Wednesday’ Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has been on a flawless run during the past decade....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 114 words · Daniel Roy

Best of 2016 (Behind the Scenes): How Donald Glover'sAtlantacaptured the city with its music

During the shows fall run, Glover andAtlantastaff writer Fam talked to EW about scoring the series. As part of our year-end coverage, revisit that story below. Click here for more Best of 2016 coverage. Credit: Matthias Clamer/FX Then the title card pops up, and No Hook becomes muted. (The possibility of getting some paper of his own is solid motivation for Earn, too.) We wanted it to feel like what it felt like when we were on the street in Atlanta....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 301 words · Dr. Julian Sawyer

Best of 2016 (Behind the Scenes):This Is Usstars talk game-changing twist in premiere

The show quickly emergedas one of the lone breakout hits of the fall. Revisit that story below as part of our year-end coverage. Click here for more Best of 2016 coverage. Credit: Ron Batzdorff/NBC An actor who has an epic meltdown on the set of his hit sitcom. What do all of these people who are turning 36 years old have in common besides the same birthday? Let’s hope that it’s not right now as you read this story....

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 717 words · Cathy Bolton