Paranormal 3 is Metafantastic

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In Paranormal Activity 3, creepy stuff mostly happens when people are sleeping. But the movie woke up the somnolent autumn box office with $54 million.

Bernard Herrmann at 100: Music of the Fears

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On his centenary, a tribute to the Master of Musical Suspense, who gave viewers shivers with his superb scores for Citizen Kane, Psycho and Taxi Driver.

John Hawkes’ Strange and Dangerous Sex Appeal

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The gangly actor is hypnotic as a charismatic cult leader in Martha Marcy May Marlene

Singers Quoting Nietzsche’s “What Doesn’t Kill Me…”

It might make them stronger, but it still doesn’t make them original.

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TV Weekend: Once Upon a Time

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Snow White, Prince Charming, the Evil Queen—a new ABC series, debuting Sunday, re-spins some old fairy tales

Elizabeth Olsen: Sister Number Three Rises to the Top

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Forget Mary-Kate and Ashley. Their little sis proves a rising star in Martha Marcy May Marlene

“I think somebody slipped something in my drink, like a drug that'll make you get, like, a bunch of tattoos.”

Lil Wayne, when asked about his many tattoos in a GQ interview

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Starz’s Politics Drama Boss: Powerful But Messy, Just Like Its Subject

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The dramatic grimness comes quick and often in Starz’s new show starring Kelsey Grammer as a Chicago Mayor

Coming Soon: The All-TIME 100 Songs

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Compiled by a group of the magazine’s writers and editors, the list is the result of months of heated debate and one really, really long email chain about disco.

Margin Call: A Financial Crisis Film Collides With The Zeitgeist

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Kevin Spacey and Zachary Quinto try to get us angry about Wall Street. They only partially succeed.

Michael Rapaport on His Tribe Called Quest Documentary

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The actor moved behind the camera to film Beats, Rhymes and Life, a documentary that charts the career of rap group A Tribe Called Quest

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Did You Need to See Gaddafi’s Corpse?

When Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in May, people criticized the government’s decision not to release the reportedly grisly photos of his corpse. Rumors were swirling that bin Laden was not actually dead, and the lack of visual evidence—as opposed to the leaked video that emerged after Saddam Hussein’s hanging—encouraged them. We live in [...]

William Shatner’s Floating Head Sings ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.”

You thought his version of “Common People” was weird? Well, this has that beat.

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NPR Listeners May Finally Be Protected from Opera Bias

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Public radio listeners! Have you long worried that your station was undermining capitalism through its broadcasts of the Ring Cycle?

Rihanna’s “We Found Love” Video: Sex, Drugs and a Chris Brown Lookalike

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Rihanna’s new music video is simultaneously depressing and uplifting.

Top 10 Movie Swordsmen

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The latest Three Musketeers film hits theaters this weekend. TIME looks back at cinema’s best swashbucklers, samurai and swordsmen/women.

The Police Academy Guy Who Does The Sounds Covers Led Zeppelin

Michael Winslow

Sgt. Larvelle “Motor Mouth” Jones from the Police Academy movies really knows how to rock

R.E.M. Says Goodbye With Its Last Single

REM

“We All Go Back to Where We Belong” sounds like a song about a failed romance. Or a band’s breakup. Probably both.