The Fox television series GLEE now has another reason to celebrate;as rapper/singer Eve will appear on the new show, according to Entertainment Weekly's.  Eve will play a "no-nonsense girls' choir director from a rival school." The Grammy Award-winning rapper will appear in a two-episodes.

The show will premiere in the fall in a regular time slot as of yet unannounced, but you can catch a sneak peek of the upcoming episodes on STAGE TUBE!

GLEE is an uplifting series with biting humor that features a soundtrack of hit music from past to present. The show follows an optimistic high school teacher, WILL SCHUESTER (Matthew Morrison), as he tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing the high school's glee club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential.

Because of the indelible images of masses of black people abandoned on rooftops, under highway overpasses and at the Superdome, many people might think that only African-Americans were adversely affected by Hurricane Katrina. But the disaster took a terrible ongoing toll on po’ white folk, too, as chronicled in this compelling documentary directed by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon.

The film follows the efforts of Ms. Pearl, an altruistic Native-American woman who, with the approval of her husband, David Cross, converted their backyard in to a tent village for locals left homeless in the wake of the flood that devastated the region a couple of years ago. David operates a construction company and is willing to employ anyone camping out on the premises in order to help them get back on their feet. In fact, he establishes certain house rules, including no drugs and a mandate that everyone there find work of some kind, even if not with his company.

Unfortunately, the rent-free offer turns out to be flypaper for the disturbed, and what begins as a utopian oasis gradually turns into a neverending nightmare. One guy snaps and literally tries to strangle his girlfriend because she asked him to find her a pot to pee in. Another man is asked to leave because he was pressuring a pregnant woman to get high.

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BIG BUDGET FILMS

My Sister’s Keeper (PG-13 for profanity, sensuality, mature themes, disturbing images and underage alcohol consumption) drama about a girl (Abigail Breslin), conceived as a bone marrow donor for her leukemia-stricken sister (Sofia Vassilieva) who sues her parents (Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric) for medical emancipation when they want a kidney, too. With Alec Baldwin (brother of Stephen, William and Daniel), Joan Cusack (sister of John), Mary Jo Emily and Deschanel (mother and sister of Zooey, respectively), and Al Quinn (no relation to Anthony).

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13 for violence, profanity, crude behavior, sexuality and brief drug use) Sci-fi sequel features Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox who team with the Autobots for another epic battle againsd the Decepticons, a race of evil robots returning to Earth with revenge in mind. Cast includes John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Rainn Wilson, Anthony Anderson, Hugo Weaving and Isabel Lucas.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS

Afghan Star (Unrated) Post-liberation concert flick chronicles the nationally-televised competition entered into by thousands of aspiring, Afghani pop stars including several women willing to risk incurring the wrath of the Taliban by appearing unveiled on their country’s equivalent of American Idol. (In English, Pashtu and Dari)

Cheri (R for sexuality and brief drug use) Stephen Frears directs this romance drama set in Paris in the 1920s and revolving around a spoiled teenager (Rupert Friend) who embarks on a steamy affair with a considerably-older, retired courtesan (Michelle Pfeiffer) only to have his gold-digger of a mother (Kathy Bates) interfere by arranging his marriage to a virginal heiress (Felicity Jones).

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