A dangerous collaboration produces a delicate score
That Time Paul Rudd Saw an Emu on a Movie Set
The actor expected to see snakes and deer while filming ‘Prince Avalance’ but the reality was much wilder
TV Weekend: Low Winter Sun and Detroit as Urban Desert
Low Winter Sun, a bleak, bleak cop drama that uses Detroit as an apocalyptic open-air amphitheater, may not be disaster porn, but it’s at least disaster cheesecake.
Whitney Houston: 10 Career-Defining Moments
August 9th would have been the late singer’s 50th birthday
Today’s Movie Trailers: Monuments Men and Captain Phillips
George Clooney and Tom Hanks square off against Nazis and Somali pirates
Band to Watch: Wild Belle
The brother-sister duo artfully blend island and West African sounds — with a dash of James Brown
Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium: Dark and Dysto-pointing
The director of ‘District 9’ creates a dark, dense future world where not much new happens
Book Excerpt: Allison Yarrow’s The Devil of Williamsburg
A compelling account of a crime that horrified a city and tore apart a religious community
Felicia Day Shares Her 5 Major Geek Influences
The performer/writer/producer/online pioneer is a host of YouTube’s Geek Week
Stephen Colbert Spins a Band No-Show Into Comedy Gold
When Daft Punk cancels a visit, the talk-show host responds with a dance-off featuring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Jimmy Fallon
Hillary Clinton TV Shows Unite Right, Left in Wrongness
The calls from right and left for CNN and NBC to drop Hillary projects amount to: don’t make any potentially interesting shows about an active political figure. (And if you do, skew them our way!)
An Audition Tape Offers an Alternate Version of The Office
Can you imagine Adam Scott—or John Cho—playing Jim Halpert?
TV Tonight: Broadchurch
I didn’t want to watch one more moody drama about a child murder, either. But this British drama is excellent, most of all for how it treats the living.