David Alan Grier

"Star Trek Into Darkness' Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence. Summary: The Enterprise crew chases a terrorist across the cosmos. Kid attractor: Space, spaceships, Spock and explosions. Good/bad lessons: "The enemy of...

Tyler Perry is credited as a producer on "Peeples," but don't let that scare you away. Written and directed by Tina Gordon Chism, "Peeples" is witty, charming and light, standing apart from the heavy-handed moralizing of so many of Perry's own movies....

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     --------------------     The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Tonight Show...

May 12 (TheWrap.com) - "The Great Gatsby" pulled off a dazzling $51 million debut, but couldn't catch "Iron Man 3" its second weekend in U.S. theaters. Disney's Marvel sequel rolled up another $72.5 million this weekend, and is approaching $1 billion...

May 12 (TheWrap.com) - Maybe somebody should have invited Madea? "Tyler Perry Presents: Peeples" landed with a thud in its debut at the U.S. box office, taking in $4.8 million, well below expectations that were low to begin with. Kerry Washington, who...

May 11 (TheWrap.com) - "The Great Gatsby" debuted to a glitzy $19.4 million Friday, and is on track for a weekend box office gross in excess of $50 million. That won't be enough to catch "Iron Man 3," which brought in $19.7 million Friday, and is looking...

May 10 (TheWrap.com) - There's a certain brand of comedy that's practically a genre unto itself — call it "Pre-Marital Mishaps on the Cape." They involve an impending wedding, embarrassment, awkward revelations, accidental ingestion of controlled...

May 09 (TheWrap.com) - "The Great Gatsby" is heating up in tracking, social media and advance ticket sales, but it still doesn't look like it will melt down "Iron Man 3" at the box office this weekend. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in one of the summer's...

For the last nine seasons Craig Robinson has played Darryl, one of the most understated characters on TV. "The Office" may be closing out its ninth and final season next week, but Robinson's profile is about to increase exponentially. He has three...

Kerry Washington is looking pretty enviable on the cover of June's Elle magazine. The "Scandal" star is proclaimed by the fashion mag to be "the hottest woman on TV." The ABC political drama in which she plays White House PR maven Olivia Pope, who has a...

"Peeples" is an African-American "Meet the Parents" that slips funnyman Craig Robinson into the Ben Stiller role. Casting the musically minded Robinson in this formula comedy about screwing up your first encounter with your potential in-laws is like...

** (out of four) Maybe people faint all the time. I’ve never seen it. By my count, movie characters faint roughly 450,000 times more often than real people do. Comic effect is one thing, but who really laughs at someone fainting? Much like the...