Entertainment weekly december 11, 2015

CREED’s TKO! Rocky’s Officially Back In the Oscar Ring DEC 11, 2015 • #1393 Fa-La-La-La Face-off Your Ultimate List of the 15 Best Holiday Meow Movies, TV, Songs & Books First Look! THE BIGGEST MARVEL MOVIE YET INTRODUCES HE’S TALL, POWERFUL— AND HAS CLAWS THAT A REAL HOUSEWIFE WOULD ENVY FROM LEFT: CHRIS EVANS AS CAPTAIN AMERICA, CHADWICK BOSEMAN AS BLACK PANTHER, AND ROBERT DOWNEY JR AS IRON MAN YOU’RE NOT YOU WHEN YOURE HUNGRY đ/TM trademarks âMars, Incorporated 2015 Other trademarks are property of their respective owners SATISFIES ® THE TOP 10 THINGS W E LOV E THIS WEEK TR ANSPARENT: AMA ZON STUDIOS (3); LIGHT AND TAMBOR: JENNIFER CL ASEN/AMA ZON Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker, Jay Duplass, Judith Light, and Jeffrey Tambor TV TRANSPARENT I L L U ST R AT I O N BY J O H N R I T T E R • Thegroundbreakingseriesreturnsassharplyfunnyasever,with Maura (Emmy winner Jeffrey Tambor) and the dysfunctional Pfefferman family learning to navigate new life-changing decisions, including sex-reassignment surgery (Amazon) DECEMBER 11, 2015 E W.C O M 5 4 MUSIC TV B O O KS M OV I E S MUSIC A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS, Coldplay YOU’RE THE WORST THE IMPROBABILITY OF LOVE, by Hannah Rothschild THE LADY IN THE VAN BLUE NEIGHBOURHOOD, Troye Sivan • After 2014’s melan- choly Ghost Stories, the British rockers bounce back with some of their most joyous music in years, featuring an all-star group of collaborators including Beyoncé, Merry Clayton, Tove Lo, and others E W.C O M • The raunchy yet poignant sitcom about thirtysomethings trying to live and love has had a winning second season (available now on Hulu) thanks to nuanced storytelling that’s unafraid to show characters at their, well, worst (FXX, Wednesdays, 10:30 p.m.) DECEMBER 11, 2015 • This wittily frothy first novel dives headfirst into the outsize greed and intrigue in today’s art world—and the havoc wreaked when a lost masterpiece falls into the wrong (or maybe exactly right) hands • Revisiting her role from Alan Bennett’s autobiographical play, Maggie Smith is crotchety, cantankerous, and ultimately charming as a homeless woman who asked to park her van in Bennett’s driveway for a few weeks and stayed for 15 years (PG-13) • Hot 100 fans hungry for something more filling than the latest releases from Justin Bieber or One Direction should pick up this Aussie’s moody fulllength debut, brimming with lush synth-pop symphonies CHRIS MARTIN: KEVIN MA ZUR /WIREIMAGE.COM; YOU’RE THE WORST: BYRON COHEN/FX; THE L ADY IN THE VAN: NICOL A DOVE; SIVAN: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP Learn more at toyota.com/tacoma 9 10 M OV I E S CHI-RAQ • Spike Lee’s update of Lysistrata—written largely in rhyme—is his most satisfying joint in 10 years (R) B O O KS RULES FOR A KNIGHT, by Ethan Hawke • Told from the perspective of a 15th-century dad to his kids on the eve of battle, this collection of children’s parables sweetly ruminates on life lessons M OV I E S HITCHCOCK/ TRUFFAUT • Fifty years after Franỗois Truffaut published his Alfred Hitchcock interviews, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and others dissect the influence of the auteurs’ work (PG-13) TV GARBAGE TIME WITH KATIE NOLAN • The former YouTuber’s comedic take on sports is witty, energetic, and, most of all, refreshing (FS1, Wednesdays, 12 a.m.) 10 CHI-R AQ: PARRISH LEWIS (2); NOL AN: KEVIN LYNCH/FOX SPORTS E W.C O M DECEMBER 11, 2015 Saving People Money Since 1936           GEICO has been serving up great car insurance and (!2;!9$$!@ 2$W9