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Hands of Stone Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz Opens August 26 Boxer Roberto Durán grew up poor in Panama and became a champion boxer, trained by the legendary Ray Arcel. Hands of Stone, his inevitable biopic, doesn't, at its core, contain much more information than that sentence, but in movie-boxing terms it positions Durán as a sort of simultaneous Rocky and Apollo Creed: A scrappy underdog from humble beginnings and a cocky champion who doesn't believe he can...

Look, it's practically impossible to select the best songs in a year. First of all, the single is so rarely the best song an album that using that categorization as criteria does not generally yield accurate results. Second of all, music critics are probably the people on the planet who listen to the greatest number of albums and songs per year, and even most of us have our niches and specializations we tend to...

UPDATE: Erykah Badu's new tape is now streaming, and though it sounds like Drake appears on "U Use To Call Me" and later on "What's Yo Phone Number/Telephone," Dallas-based blog Central Track reports that it is actually ItsRoutine, an Atlanta rapper who is also known as Aubrey Davis. Which raises the question of which Aubrey she's referencing when she wrote "this one's for Aubrey." Andre 3000 also guests on the tape's final track "Hello."...