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Christopher Lawrence

Christopher Lawrence is the movie critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
clawrence@reviewjournal.com … @life_onthecouch on Twitter. 702-380-4567

No Ted, this is no way for bros (or a show) to go

This final season has so tarnished the legacy of “How I Met Your Mother,” it would take something just short of divine intervention for the hourlong finale (8 p.m. Monday, KLAS-TV, Channel 8) to wash away the bad taste.

 
Grand cast makes ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ a grand ol’ time

Prepare to be transported to an era when staying in a hotel was considered exotic, romantic, even something of an adventure, and not just another sleepless night because you can’t stop worrying about the potential for bedbugs or who did what to whom on that bedspread that keeps brushing up against your lower lip.

CinemaCon Day Four, The End: The stars come out for Warner Bros.

Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Melissa McCarthy and the living legend Clint Eastwood take the Colosseum stage as the convention draws to a close.

 
CinemaCon Day Four: ‘X-Men,’ Shailene Woodley steal the show

The goosebumpy, epic-looking opening minutes of “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” which showed the titular mutants battling Sentinels, grabbed me by my geeky parts in way’s last night’s reveal of 35 minutes of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” just didn’t.

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CinemaCon Day Two: Universal brings the funny

The studio introduces raunchy new footage from its upcoming comedies “Neighbors,” “A Million Ways to Die in the West” and “Dumb and Dumber To,” but Angelina Jolie steals the show.

CinemaCon Day One: A whole lotta ‘Transformers’

Paramount kicked off the four-day gathering of movie theater owners with appearances by Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Will Arnett and plenty of newly released footage of the studio’s upcoming films.

 
Miscalculations, tonal unevenness make ‘Muppets Most Wanted’ a dud

Apparently, every ounce of innocent, sweet-natured joy that made 2011’s “The Muppets” such a whimsical burst of nostalgia can be traced back to one person. Surprisingly, it’s the guy who showed the world his dangly bits in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”

5 TV shows besides ‘Veronica Mars’ that are being resurrected

“The Walking Dead” and ABC’s “Resurrection” aren’t the only zombie shows in town. From “24” to “Heroes,” there are plenty of TV series that are among the walking dead themselves.

10 legit questions raised by ‘Divergent’

It’s fine and all — better than “Twilight,” worse than “The Hunger Games” — but “Divergent” feels like at least a dozen different CW dramas over the years. So why are teenage girls so excited about this and not the others?

CNBC bets on Las Vegas ‘sports consulting agency’

If the saying “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” doesn’t run through your mind while watching the new series “Money Talks” (10 p.m. Wednesday), well, you’re just the type of person Steve Stevens, aka Darin Notaro, is looking for.