Blog Posts by Thelma Adams

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When Kerry Washington arrived at this week's Metropolitan Gala with punky purple streaks in her hair, she shocked some people. Not us! We know there are a lot of layers to this actress -- she has a Phi Beta Kappa from George Washington University -- who's dominating this year on screens big and small.

On TV, the aptly-named Washington owns the sexy D.C. drama "Scandal." During Oscar season, she rode the red carpet as the only major female star in Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning antebellum revenge fantasy "Django Unchained." And, now, with a glamorous shake of her head, the Bronx-born beauty gets laughs in "Peeples," an upscale African American meet-the-parents comedy co-starring Craig Robinson.

Must-See Movies Beyond the Blockbusters

Sarah Polley (Photo: Roadside Attractions)

Watching "Stories We Tell" feels like sharing a comfy couch beside a close friend -- who happens to be an amazing storyteller with a show-stopping secret. In her third film as a writer-director ("Away From Her," "Take This Waltz"), the Canadian actress Sarah Polley, 34, uses nonfiction to unknot her shocking family history. Because her parents, Michael and Diane Polley, were theater people, the revelations also played out on a public stage.

Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio in 'The Great Gatsby' (Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures)

When Baz Luhrmann announced that he would helm "The Great Gatsby," with Leonardo DiCaprio playing the title character, it was a buckle-your-seat-belt moment in movie history. Could the Australian director of "Moulin Rouge" finally pull off the literary adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic about the American dream, a vision that has eluded so many before him?

Well, after much delay, fanfare, and cross-promotion, it appears that Luhrmann's $104.5 million 3-D adaptation is in serious trouble. Here are the 10 reasons why we think "The Great Gatsby" may be the summer's first great disappointment.

We have a feeling you'll be hearing lots more about Ty Simpkins after "Iron Man 3."

Starring as Harley Keener, the 11-year-old fifth-grader serves as the pint-sized straight man for Tony Stark's best one-liners while helping the fallen hero repair his badly damaged suit.

Despite Simpkins's epic Hollywood résumé -- "Insidious," "Revolutionary Road," "War of the Worlds" -- he still attends public school. We caught up with him after school and got the lowdown on his key role in the summer's first blockbuster.

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Ty Simpkins shares more screen time with Robert Downey Jr. in "Iron Man 3" than Gwyneth Paltrow. The eleven-year-old Hollywood vet ("Revolutionary Road," "Insidious") plays Harley Keener, the kid who helps Tony Stark pull his suit together after the superhero falls to earth one snowy night in rural Tennessee. Simpkins told Yahoo! Movies his five favorite films, and it's no surprise that "Iron Man" tops the list:

Trine Cyrholm and Pierce Brosnan in 'Love Is All You Need' (Photo: Sony Pictures Classics)

Pierce Brosnan might have turned in his license to kill, but that's not stopping him from talking Bond, James Bond.

Yahoo! Movies caught up with the 59-year-old actor in Manhattan to discuss his latest starring role, in Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier's charming romcom "Love Is All You Need," opening Friday. The Irishman plays an embittered widower that gets a second chance at love with a cancer survivor (Trine Dyrholm) when they meet at their children's Italian wedding.

But, ever the gentleman, Brosnan graciously switched gears and discussed his years as Bond, where he fit in the 007 pantheon -- and seeing "Skyfall" for the first time.

Photo: Thelma AdamsThere's no avoiding it: Will Forte, 42, is nice-looking like the guy you cruise across the library and lock eyes with when you both look up from your books. Sitting in a small room in the basement of the Hilton New York Fashion District, just beyond the sweat-and-grunt of the hotel's exercise room, the bearded former "Saturday Night Live" comedian turned actor (yes, "MacGruber," too) is chill without being hip.

Forte's at the Tribeca Film Festival promoting his first purely dramatic turn. In the Irish indie "Run & Jump," he plays a reserved American psychiatrist treating an Irish stroke victim –- and falling for the man's wife.

While at Tribeca, Forte discovered that his film "Nebraska" is in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In Alexander Payne's first outing since the Oscar-nominated "The Descendants," Forte plays an alienated Midwestern son that takes a road trip to, yes, Nebraska with his alcoholic father (Bruce Dern). Cannes you say, "Can't wait?"

"Nebraska" is set to open in limited release on November 22.

Onata Aprile in 'What Maisie Knew' (Photo: Millennium Entertainment)

The big question when it comes to child actors is: Who will be the next Quvenzhané Wallis?

After "Beasts of the Southern Wild" debuted last July, the plucky young Wallis walked off the screen and all the way to an Oscar nomination for best actress. She set the bar high, and got compared to everyone from Shirley Temple to Jodie Foster.

Now, there's a new crop of talent rising, including Onata Aprile, Charlie Tahan, Joey King, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, and Sterling Jerins.