At Milo Cramer’s School Pictures, teens and teachers discuss the torturous process of applying to New York’s selective schools. Photo: Chelcie Parry Photo: Chelcie Parry As far as preshow reception spreads go, this one exceeds expectations. There’s not only your standard “cheese plate with grapes and two kinds of melon” fare but a variety of hot options, plus wine. “That’s the teacher swag we need, that’s it right there,” says Malvia Rowe, a math teacher at Montauk Junior High School in Borough Park, Brooklyn.

Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi A week after Carrie Fisher warned Daisy Ridley, “Don’t be a slave like I was,” rumors have emerged that Slave Leia merchandise will be consigned to the metaphorical sarlacc pit. According to a Facebook posting from Marvel artist J. Scott Campbell, Disney (which owns both Marvel and LucasFilm) is considering removing Slave Leia from the historical record like a scantily clad Leon Trotsky.

Retribution is a simple little thriller that works despite plot holes and predictability. Liam Neeson spends the vast majority of Retribution stuck inside a car. Luckily, there are few actors alive today who are better suited to being stuck inside a car. For the past few years, Neeson (now 71) has looked for ways to keep doing the dadsploitation action flicks that were already a kind of late-career heel turn for him.

Invasion Going Home Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Invasion Going Home Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Halfway through this first season of Invasion, and finally, someone says what we’ve all been thinking: alien. Thank you, Hashimoto!

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There are plenty of great scene details in Mark Binelli’s Jay-Z Rolling Stone cover story, going on newsstands this Friday: Jay discussing tie knot sizes with his personal stylist in his 39th-floor corner office overlooking Times Square; Jay gushing over Drake’s enunciation skills; Jay mispronouncing a former Frasier star’s name at a public charity function (Chelsea Grammer!). It’s also just a great snapshot of this particular odd moment in the 40-year-old’s career, where hit singles and meetings with eccentric Russian billionaires come in equal measure: Yeah, annoying bloggers like us take potshots at his rapping skills, but he’s still, as he gladly points out, just, if not more, relevant to hip-hop — and not just pop culture in general, like, say Diddy — than he’s ever been.

You don’t need to be a hard-bitten investigator with loose morals to get the truth about True Detective: Night Country, the fourth entry in the anthology series. HBO debuted the official trailer for the upcoming season on December 4. Set in Alaska during a period of 24-plus hours of night, the show features its first female detective duo, who are reunited after six years apart to solve a cold case.

Future, “Honest” Honesty, you see, is Future’s policy. On his great 2012 album Pluto, the Atlanta rapper transformed himself from also-ran to star by embracing sincerity, and Auto-Tune: serving up confessions and plaints, over windswept production, in a pitch-shifted rap-croon. The title track from his forthcoming album gives the formula a cheeky spin: It’s one giant humblebrag. “Gold bottles on bottles, I’m just honest / Hundred-thousand on watches, I’m just honest.

We’re listening … Guys, Kevin Costner seems seriously f*cking mad! In a new expletive-sprinkled interview with Deadline, the star and filmmaker spilled a giant cowboy-hat-shaped mug of tea over Yellowstone’s behind-the-scenes production woes; he also offered his thoughts on the value of DVDs in today’s media landscape, but it was mostly about the Yellowstone stuff. In previous coverage, Costner has been painted as a complete divo, demanding to have a say in how his character dies and refusing to work more than a week on Yellowstone’s fifth season — prioritizing instead his four-part passion project Horizon, the first installment of which he brings to Cannes this year.

For someone who dresses so ridiculously, Lady Gaga sure takes herself seriously. So seriously, in fact, that she refused to give her blessing to Weird Al’s new single and parody of “Born This Way,” “Perform This Way.” Which is her right, sure, but she also insisted that he record the song before she made her decision — reading the lyrics wasn’t enough. We send the lyrics to Lady Gaga and wait on figurative pins and needles for her to give us the go-ahead.