Dwayne Johnson no longer has to affix the moniker “The Rock” to his name because we all know that he’s become a rock-solid force in movies.   

By all accounts, authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl have fashioned a more literate set of romantic teen stories, beginning with Beautiful Creatures, that traffic in the tried-and-true world of forbidden love between mortals and supernatural beings.   

An extraterrestrial astronaut named Scorch Supernova (voiced by Brendan Fraser) gets trapped when he responds to an SOS from an alien planet —some third rock from its sun.  

Good old John McClane (Bruce Willis) is right back in the middle of all bad things. This time, he’s traipsing off to Russia to bring his supposedly wayward son Jack (Jai Courtney) back home, but it turns out that Jack’s the apple that hasn’t fallen far from the family tree.  

Niels Arcel, best known in the U.S. as one of the screenwriters on the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, reteams with Rasmus Heisterberg, his partner on that film, to tackle Bodil Steensen-Leth’s novel about madness in the dawning age of enlightenment in Denmark.  

Much like Tyler Perry panders to his base, Nicholas Sparks just keeps churning out soapy affairs about couples that meet and need to overcome their dark secret pasts in order to find happy ever after together and audiences can’t seem to wait for the next installment.  

Survivor starts its 26th(!) season this week and the Queen City will see one of its own on the show as local BMX rider, entrepreneur and musician Matt Bischoff joins the “Fans vs. Favorites” showdown.  

In The Last Stand, a few opening weekend masochists forced themselves to watch as Schwarzenegger’s small border town sheriff and a ragtag collection of kooky deputies fought against a supposedly elite extraction team seeking to transport a notorious racecar driving drug kingpin back across the border.  

Sure, everyone loves a good walker-bashing scene, but it’s the human element of the series that elevates The Walking Dead as a critically acclaimed and commercially successful drama.  

Identity theft is a major issue in American (and global) society due, in part, to technological advances that make acquiring personal and financial data frustratingly simple, but director Seth Gor  

On the cusp of a self-imposed retirement from moviemaking, Steven Soderbergh delves into psychological drama with screenwriter Scott Z. Burns (The Informant! and Contagion). Side Effects examine  

Amour, the brave new film from Michael Haneke, is a story that speaks to the notion and philosophies espoused by Dr. Cornel West, in particular, his consideration of what it means to be human.  

After seven seasons of night cheese, epic eye-rolls and general hilarity, Liz Lemon and the TGS crew head to 30 Rockefeller Plaza for one last show. 30 Rock comes to an end this week with a one-hour finale (8 p.m. Thursday, NBC).  

Revenge unites an assassin (Sylvester Stallone) and a detective (Sung Kang from Fast & Furious fame) in Bullet to the Head, the latest buddy action flick from old-school shooter Walter Hill (48 Ho  

What in the world are dreamy undead fans going to do now that the Twilight saga is over? Well, they can always seek the warmth of Warm Bodies, which features Nicholas Hoult as R, a zombie who seems