EW First Look: Exclusive Photos of 2016's Hottest TV Shows

Season 2 opens with an action scene and very quickly introduces Frank Castle a.k.a. thecontroversial gun-toting super-antiheroThe Punisher(The Walking Deads Jon Bernthal). Marc Snetiker Say hello to Patty, Elizabeths new undercover identity. Patrick Harbron/Netflix Its getting a bit itchy, he says with a grin. S— is about to get real messed up, he says with a laugh. For Paul, choosing a television project to follow the acclaimedBreaking Badwas daunting. Jeff Neumann/FX...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 354 words · Amanda Wood

EW Gift Guide: 7 YA books for teens

Weindependently evaluateall of our recommendations. If you tap on links we provide, we may receive compensation. This yearsbest bookswere full of heartfelt romances, weary travels, and thought-provoking questions about our society. (Take a look at the best books for folks wholove big fat novelsandpop culture). Next up: seven amazing new books for teens. Mikeys not a Harry Potter nor a Katniss Everdeen. But she risks everything when she falls in love with her next door neighbor, Olly....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 96 words · Francisco King

EW Gift Guide: Armchair Travelers

Weindependently evaluateall of our recommendations. If you choose links we provide, we may receive compensation. This years best books were full of heartfelt romances, weary travels, and through-provoking questions about our society. Next up, heres what to get for the armchair traveler. He has high hopes for his life, but things just never seem to pan out. For years, Mevlut continues to sell boza and wonders why he feels so different from everyone else....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 109 words · John Stewart

EW Gift Guide: Books for the history lover

Weindependently evaluateall of our recommendations. If you select links we provide, we may receive compensation. This years best books were full of heartfelt romances, weary travels, and through-provoking questions about our society. (Take a look at what to getteens,pop culture obsessives, and those who lovehuge epics.) Next up, heres what to get for history buffs. Here, the prolific Smiley proves that the form has not dulled one bit. Wulf reconstructs both his outsized life and the influence he had on contemporaries like Charles Darwin....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 121 words · Steven Contreras

EW Must List: Sunday's VMAs, new Frank Ocean, and more

Dont Breathe Summer 2016 has delivered on scares thus far. Still, weve yet to see anything quite likeDont Breathe. Dont Breathehits theaters Aug. 26. Credit: Mat Hayward/Getty Images Complete Unknownopens Aug. 26 in limited release. Blondeby Frank Ocean The wait was torturous, but Frank Ocean made it worthwhile in the end. Blondeisnow available on Apple Music. 2016 MTV Video Music Awards While the nominees have been announced (Beyonce and Adele lead!...

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 107 words · James White

EW reunited the cast ofFamily Matters— and they're ready for a series revival

“I didn’t realize I was going to see everybody. … To see them now, the way they are, is wonderful. It makes me cry.” Ramona Rosales for EW “It just feels so natural and so normal,” Hopkins explained of getting back together. “It’s like we haven’t been apart all these years.” And if they had their way, they wouldn’t be apart much longer. “Because we all have that rhythm,” Williams chimed in....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Derek Foster

EW stage review: Noises Off

A lot has to go right for a play to go this wrong which is the delightful paradox at the heart of Michael Frayns oft-revived 1983 hitNoises Off, which follows the production of a fictional play calledNothing Onas it careens hilariously off the rails. The actors in the play-within-a-play bumble through the needlessly complicated technical aspects of the production, including dozens of door slams in the first act alone, as well as the highly complex and apparently crucial positioning of a prop plate of sardines....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 449 words · Christopher Hall

EW's 12 Under 12: The Best Child Actors of 2015

Meet your new class, ranked by their wow-worthy portrayals. Jacob Tremblay, 9 How’s this for the fourth grade? The subject matter sounds bleak, but Tremblay is the film’s incandescent source of light. Caitlin Cronenberg “How did he do it?” “He’s so wise beyond his years.” “Marsai is an old soul,” creator Kenya Barris says. ABC “It’s just like, relax, you’re allowed to be yourself.” But she’s not worried about burning out acting is in her blood....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 255 words · Mark Taylor

EW's 2015 Entertainers of the Year

Fnd out who made the cut, ahead. At 25 it feels as though Lawrence has already lived a few Hollywood lives. So what does all this mean when it comes to her personal life? ROBERT TRACHTENBERG for EW I have a very small circle, Lawrenceexplains to EW. My bulls— detector is phenomenal. None of my friends bulls— me. ROBERT TRACHTENBERG for EW Everything in my life has to be real....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 625 words · Holly Williams

EW's 25 Best Movies in 25 Years

The real question is whether there’s any difference." A true nightmare movie, though, does more than just scare us or give us the cold creeps. And Anthony Hopkins' Dr. Lecter is that face in all its disturbing, seductive glory. Everett Collection Yet it’s his instincts as an artist that makePulp Fictiontake up permanent residence in your imagination. InPulp Fiction, what Tarantino has resurrected is the primal joy of American moviemaking."...

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 627 words · Miranda Brock

EW's 25 Best Music Albums in 25 Years

But still the record is a spiritual victory, full of wisdom wrested from audible pain. Musically, it moves from one surprise to another. And stuff each song with lyrics about ’20s-generation malaise and deranged loners? A pretty good world, + actually." ButDirtyreveals, finally, an unexpected and welcome depth and emotional range that broaden with each listening. Alternative rock grows up-or, at least, just enough to count." With Bono keeping his Cliffs of Dover yelp in check,Zooropascales down U2’s anthemic-apostles side....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 523 words · Ricardo Salinas

EW's 25 Best TV Shows in 25 Years

1 choice last year; this year, the honor could also have gone to Larry Sanders or Seinfeld. 1-rated show that takes its massive outreach seriously. Garry Shandling makes Larry’s sad-eyed smirk a mask of panic. Getty Images Here’s to you, kids." In any other medium, Duchovny and Anderson would come off as stylized and stiff. Well,ERmight have tried the colon-soul one, but it would have been really grrr-ooosss." ABC via Getty Images...

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 508 words · Morgan Jackson

EW's Best of 2015: 'UnREAL' star Arielle Kebbel talks playing the villain

Who doesnt love to play a good bitch? Click here for more Best of 2015 coverage. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I found out thatyou hateThe Bachelor, which is clearly a huge part ofUnREAL. Credit: David Livingston/Getty Images Why did you audition for this show? ARIELLE KEBBEL:Because of that very reason. What a brilliant opportunity to expose so much. James Dittiger/Lifetime Its true to reality. How funny is that? What was the audition like?...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 398 words · Isaiah Johnson