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
Everyone loves Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene. Now, some adulation for the movie’s cult leader John Hawkes.
Singers Quoting Nietzsche’s “What Doesn’t Kill Me…”
It might make them stronger, but it still doesn’t make them original.
Tuned InTelevision
TV Weekend: Once Upon a Time
There is a school of thought in Hollywood that the best way to tell an audience a story is to make it one they’ve heard before. Hence the revival of multiple comic-book franchises, the (failed) rebooting of Charlie’s Angels and …
Elizabeth Olsen: Sister Number Three Rises to the Top
There is a softness to the way Elizabeth Olsen moves on screen, as if her joints are made of recently melted wax. Simultaneously tough and unabashedly feminine, she can stretch out like a sleepy cat in one scene and coil up as if …
“I think somebody slipped something in my drink, like a drug that'll make you get, like, a bunch of tattoos.”
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Starz’s Politics Drama Boss: Powerful But Messy, Just Like Its Subject
The dramatic grimness comes quick and often in Starz’s new show starring Kelsey Grammer as a Chicago Mayor
PopulistMusic
Coming Soon: The All-TIME 100 Songs
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
There’s a big cineplex a few blocks away from lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. Should Margin Call open there this weekend, the Occupy Wall Street protesters might consider marching over for a reminder of what it is they’re …
Michael Rapaport on His Tribe Called Quest Documentary
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 …
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
Public radio listeners! Have you long worried that your station was undermining capitalism through its broadcasts of the Ring Cycle? Tired of having your children brainwashed by the socialistic messages of La Traviata? Well, fear …