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"Storm and Grace" best thing from Presley since "Suspicious Minds" LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Some thoughts on Lisa Marie Presley: "Too bad she ain't just like her daddy/Oh what a shame/She got no talent of her own/It's just her name." No, that's not our review. That's Presley anticipating (or reviving) some of the conventional/cynical wisdom about her musical career in "Sticks and Stones," a bonus track on the deluxe version of her new album, "Storm & Grace." She even refers to her own possibly hereditary pout: "She looks bad, she looks mad... ... "Tresspassing" gives glimpses into the true Adam Lambert LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Well, the upcoming movie adaptation of "Fifty Shades of Grey" has its theme song, if it wants one. "Chokehold," a provocative track from Adam Lambert's second album, sounds tailor-made for the S&M occasion: "Sheets are in a knot... I kinda like the pain... I keep running away from you, but I can't stop breaking the chains." Madam Ana, he's Adam. Lambert may play the submissive in "Chokehold," but through the rest of "Trespassing," he's trying to assert himself in a way that he didn't on his debut album. ... "Dark Shadows": What the critics think of Johnny Depp's latest LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - America's top critics are branding "Dark Shadows" frightful for all the wrong reasons. From the Wall Street Journal to the Los Angeles Times, the reviews for the latest collaboration between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are frosty, with the Warner Bros. film receiving a mediocre 41 percent "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. ... Review: Willie Nelson's son also rises on "Heroes" LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Everyone remembers the most galvanizing moment of this year's Grammys - when the telecast cut to commercial and, over a Chipotle ad, we heard a studio recording of Willie Nelson singing Coldplay's "The Scientist." You can relive that very special Grammy moment (minus the environmentally themed animation and Chipotle logo) at the climax of Nelson's new album, "Heroes," a mostly satisfying grab-bag of celebrity duets, nepotism, odes to wacky weed and interpretations of everyone from Bob Wills to Pearl Jam. ... Review: "Where Do We Go Now?" can't figure out if it's satire LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Oscar prognosticators were flummoxed when "Where Do We Go Now?" won the audience award at last year's Toronto Film Festival - previous winners like "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The King's Speech" had turned the prize into an Academy Awards bellwether. But this Arabic-language film (with smatterings of Russian and English) didn't exactly fit the mass-market profile of its predecessors. Mainstream audiences heading out to see "Where Do We Go Now?" in its regular release may find themselves similarly confounded, but for entirely different reasons. ... Sissy Spacek on a "fulfilling" career NEW YORK (Reuters) - A faint hint of a Texas accent comes through when Sissy Spacek calls up to talk about her new memoir. Spacek, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of country singer Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter," grew up in a small town, Quitman, Texas, in the 1950s and 1960s, a formative period that imbued her acting roles with "an authentic sense of rural life," in the words of film critic and historian David Thomson. Spacek, whose credits also include "The Help," "Crimes of the Heart," and "Carrie," reflects on her childhood and movie roles in "My Extraordinary Ordinary Life. ... "Girl in Progress" is mother-daughter appropriate LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Just in time for Mother's Day, "Girl in Progress" is providing illustrative lessons on how to be the antithesis of an exemplary Mom. The movie's not-so-model single mum eats the last of the cereal and milk before her adolescent daughter comes down for breakfast, is sleeping with a married man and leaves the kid alone overnight while crashing drunk at a new boyfriend's house. She then has the nerve to tell her daughter, "You need to grow up!" In "Girl in Progress," the daughter is trying to do exactly that, way too fast and way too soon for her own good. ... Book Talk: Memory and re-invention with Allison Winn Scotch TOKYO (Reuters) - A fear of flying inspired bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch's latest book, centering on a woman who awakes in a hospital with total amnesia, one of two people left alive after a massive plane crash. "The Song Remains the Same" follows Nell Slattery as she tries to piece together her former life even as her nearest and dearest - her husband, mother and sister - all feed her information about who she was in line with their own personal agendas and issues. Scotch spoke with Reuters about her book, identity and who we are without our memories. ... "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," a sweet, funny fantasy LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - From "A Room with a View" to "Enchanted April," it's been a movie truism that British people have to leave Britain if they want to unshackle themselves from their soul-crushing Britishness. And so we have "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," in which a handful of pensioners set off to retire in India, where they learn life lessons, fall in love, and get a second chance at being useful. ... Review: "A Little Bit of Heaven" is a cutesy, cancerous hell LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - When "A Little Bit of Heaven" starts unfurling, you can feel the film ticking off the cutesy romantic comedy conventions, one by one: Kate Hudson (check) stars as a free-spirited ad exec (check) who has a gorgeous courtyard apartment (check) in New Orleans, complete with sassy gay neighbor (check) and adorably mush-faced bulldog (check). ...

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