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May 25-30: Congratulations Class of 2014

This week in Movie News: Winter Sleep wins the Palme D'Or; the box office report for Memorial Day weekend; my review of X-Men: Days of Future Past; the Movie of the Day series looks at The Dirty Dozen for Memorial Day, and Adventureland, Say Anything, American Graffiti and The Graduate for graduation week; blu-ray pick of the week is Red River (1948); new trailer for Get On Up; trailers for the indie comedies This is Where I Leave You and What If; a new trailer for Annie; and my review of The Normal Heart.

This week in TV Home: my review of Hannibal Season 2; recaps of the Mad Men mid-season finale and 24 LAD "3pm-4pm"; and TV awards season kicks off with the 2014 TCA nominations and the Critics Choice TV nods.

May 31, 2014 by Ariel Shavonne.
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May 18-23: Happy Memorial Day Weekend

This week in Movie News: the box office report for the weekend of the 16th; trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy; teaser for Foxcatcher; blu-ray pick of the week Ace in the Hole; first and second roundups from the 2014 Cannes Film Festival; trailer for Magic in the Moonlight; the Batman/Superman title and logo revealed; featurette for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; and the trailer for the Roger Ebert documentary Life, Itself.

This week in TV Home: recaps for the season finale of SNL, Mad Men 7x06, and 24: LAD "2PM-3PM"; the trailers for True Blood Season 7 and Rectify Season 2; and my review of The Americans Season 2.

May 23, 2014 by Ariel Shavonne.
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May 11-16: Check out the new Batman

This week in Movie News: new trailers for Maps to the Stars and Ida; the rest of our Mother's Day Movie of the Day series looks at Imitation of Life (1959) and Terms of Endearment (1983); the box office report for Mother's Day weekend; Zack Snyder shows off pics of the new Batmobile and Batsuit; a tribute to Katharine Hepburn on her birthday; blu-ray pick of the week is Her; prom season Movie of the Day series this week recommends 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Grease (1978) and Footloose (1984); trailers for Mr. Turner and Interstellar; the X-Men guys on The Graham Norton Show; and a new teaser for Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella.

This week in TV Home: Larry Wilmore to take over Stephen Colbert's time slot; recaps of SNL 5/10, Mad Men 7x05, and 24 9x03; the best and worst TV Moms for Mother's Day; trailer for Season 2 of Masters of Sex; and my review of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s first season.

May 17, 2014 by Ariel Shavonne.
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May 4-9: Happy Mother's Day

This week in Movie News: the box office report for the weekend of May 2nd; a tribute to Audrey Hepburn on her birthday; a Movie of the Day for Cinco de Mayo, Like Water For Chocolate; the trailer for the Danish western The Salvation; my review of The Invisible Woman; the blu-ray pick of the week The Women (1939); Julia Roberts/Sally Field curse off on Jimmy Kimmel; new poster for Interstellar; trailers for Tammy, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and Snowpiercer; the beginning of our Movie of the Day series for Mother's Day takes a look at The Kids Are All Right (2010), Mildred Pierce (1945) and The Joy Luck Club (1993); and two second trailers for One Million Ways to Die in the West and Begin Again.

This week in TV Home: recaps of SNL with host Andrew Garfield, Mad Men 7x04 and the season premiere of 24: Live Another Day; the trailer for the new Fox series Gotham.

May 10, 2014 by Ariel Shavonne.
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Week of Apr 27-May 2: Meet the New Star Wars Cast

This week in Movie News: The Other Woman rules the box office for the weekend of the 25th; the second trailer for The Fault in Our Stars; the new Star Wars cast announced; blu-ray pick of the week is Touch of Evil (1958); the death of Bob Hoskins; new featurette for How to Train Your Dragon 2; the Cannes Film Festival 2014 lineup; the second trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Jimmy Fallon and Emma Stone's lip sync battle; and the mixed-negative reviews for this week's blockbuster release The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

This week in TV Home: recap of Mad Men 7x03; teaser for Steven Soderbergh's upcoming Cinemax series The Knick; and Craig Ferguson announces he's leaving The Late Late Show in December.

Also this week, the movie recommendations for the month of May arrived. The theme is "In Commemoration, Part I" in honor of Memorial Day, so all month long you can mark the occasion with some of the best war and wartime movies set before and during WWI. Go to the Movies for Every Month page to check out the description for May, and the May movie page itself to see the list of ten.

May 3, 2014 by Ariel Shavonne.
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Week of Apr 20-25: Lupita is Most Beautiful

This week in Movie News: our Movie of the Day series wraps up the religious holidays with The Last Temptation of Christ and Easter Parade; trailers for A Most Wanted Man and The Homesman; the box office report for the weekend of the 18th; the first five minutes of How to Train Your Dragon 2; the blu-ray pick of the week Double Indemnity; Earth Day recommendation of the BBC documentary Planet Earth; a tribute to Jack Nicholson on his birthday; Lupita Nyong'o makes the cover of People Magazine's annual Most Beautiful issue; Jessica Chastain signed to play Marilyn Monroe; the trailer for The Trip to Italy; my review for All is Lost; and the trailer for Richard Linklater's Boyhood.

This week in TV Home: recap of Mad Men 7x02; Stephen Colbert chats with David Letterman; review of the sixth season of Parks and Recreation; and Seth Meyers announced to host the 2014 Emmys.

April 26, 2014 by Ariel Shavonne.
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Week of Apr 13-18: Happy Good Friday

This week in Movie News: my review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier; the box office report for the weekend of the 11th; the winners of the 2014 MTV Movie Awards; the first trailer and poster for David Fincher's Gone Girl; the blu-ray pick of the week is Breaking the Waves from 1996; the third and final trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past; trailers for David Michod's The Rover, David Cronenberg's Cannes entry Maps to the Stars, Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys and James Gray's The Immigrant; and finally, our Movie of the Day series for Holy Week looks at The Ten Commandments (1956), The Prince of Egypt (1998) and The Gospel According to St. Matthew (above, 1964).

This week in TV Home: recaps of SNL with host Seth Rogen and the season premiere of Mad Men 7x01; trailers for the TV movies Rosemary's Baby on NBC and The Normal Heart on HBO, the trailer for Orange is the New Black Season 2; and the first teaser for Louie Season 4.

April 18, 2014 by Ariel Shavonne.
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