Butler channeled the King of Rock and captured his spirit during the filming of “Elvis.”

Chris Hemsworth takes the charismatic leading man to a dark place in ‘Spiderhead,’ now streaming on Netflix.

For almost three decades, off and on, Jeff Goldblum has played Dr. Ian Malcolm with particular Goldblumian panache. As the stylish chaos theorist of the “Jurassic Park” and “Jurassic World” films, Goldblum is the voice of reason and comedy relief in one.

The latest “Doctor Strange” is an identifiably Sam Raimi film, full of playful horror, clever comic touches and bonkers flashes. He brings some madness to the multiverse.

Alexander Skarsgård is living his dream as Amleth, an exiles prince who returns home to save his mother and avenge his father’s death after witnessing his murder at the hands of his uncle.

Time flows through director Richard Linklater’s films. In “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood,” NASA and the moon mission are just next door. But the sense of wonder that permeates the animated film is felt just as strongly in the neighborhood streets where kids roam with skinned knees.

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Reeves felt that Pattinson was the perfect choice for the role of Batman and neither let the backlash and grousing by fans deter them.

Grohl drew on his experience playing the Devil in the song “Tribute” by Tenacious D and “Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny,” both featuring the comedy-rock duo Jack Black and Kyle Gass.