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Vietnam veteran and character actor R. Lee "Gunny" Ermey joined 700 Veterans as part of the IAVA/Victory Motorcycles presence at the 2014 America's Parade in New York. Ermey died Sunday from complications of pneumonia, his manager Bill Rogin said.

National

R. Lee Ermey, 'Full Metal Jacket' Sergeant, Dies At 74

2:51am April 16, 2018

by Doreen McCallister

Ermey was no stranger to military life. He was a U.S. Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant and served in Vietnam. He took up acting after 11 years in the Marines.

In Come Sunday, Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Carlton Pearson, a real-life megachurch leader who experiences a crisis of faith.

The Evangelical Bishop Who Stopped Believing In Hell, Now On Netflix

4:58pm April 15, 2018

by Michel Martin

The new feature film Come Sunday, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, dramatizes the real-life crisis of faith of Carlton Pearson, who once presided over a major Pentecostal congregation.

Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Carlton Pearson in Come Sunday.

Arts

Chiwetel Ejiofor On Playing The Doubting Bishop Of 'Come Sunday'

4:58pm April 15, 2018

by Michel Martin

A new Netflix movie sees the English actor portraying the American megachurch leader Carlton Pearson, who experienced a theological crisis — one that cost him his ministry.

Milos Forman at the International Rome Film Festival in Rome in 2009. He died at age 86 in Connecticut.

Milos Forman, 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' Director, Dies At 86

7:28am April 14, 2018

by James Doubek

The Czech director won awards for 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and 1984's Amadeus.

Arts

A Tormented Veteran Rescues Kids From Abuse In 'You Were Never Really Here'

2:23pm April 13, 2018

by Justin Chang

Joaquin Phoenix plays a shattered soul who makes his way as a thug-for-hire in director Lynne Ramsay's brutal and unsparing new crime film. Justin Chang calls the movie "superior art-house pulp."

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No More Hotel Auditions, Says Union Representing Actors

11:54am April 13, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

SAG-AFTRA is calling for an end to auditions in private hotel rooms or residences, after a spate of sexual harassment allegations against powerful Hollywood figures.

Resistance is feudal: John McEnroe (Shia LaBeouf) and Bjorn Borg (Sverrir Godnason) face off in Borg vs. McEnroe, a dramatized take on their famed '80s rivalry.

Arts

'Borg vs. McEnroe': Game, Set And An Unlikely Match

5:01pm April 12, 2018

by Ella Taylor

This "smoothly crafted, satisfyingly earnest" film features many sports-movie clichés, but digs a bit deeper to find psychological affinities between the two very different athletes.

Rosamund Pike plays a U.S. operative who helps Jon Hamm's diplomat in the political thriller Beirut.

Arts

Factions, And Hidden Agendas, Clash In 'Beirut'

5:00pm April 12, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

In this controversial, "involving if somewhat predictable" political thriller, Jon Hamm plays a diplomat who returns to Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War to negotiate the release of an old friend.

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami is an intimate and personal look at the Jamaican megastar, who became a New Wave icon in the eighties.

A Diva Deconstructed In 'Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami'

5:00pm April 12, 2018

by Scott Tobias

Sophie Fiennes' film about the legendary performer "achieve[s] a level of intimacy and candor ... that's uncommon for documentaries about figures who control their images this closely."

In writer/director Chloe Zhao's The Rider, Brady (Brady Jandreau) is forced to rethink his life after a traumatic rodeo accident.

Arts

After The Fall: A Cowboy Picks Up The Pieces Of His Former Life In 'The Rider'

4:44pm April 12, 2018

by Bob Mondello

Filmmaker Chloe Zhao (Songs My Brother Taught Me) tells the sensitive and searching tale of a young cowboy (Brady Jandreau) confronting his uncertain future.

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