American Sniper and Blackhat
Bradley Cooper commandeers Clint Eastwood's powerful war movie, Chris Hemsworth withers in Michael Mann's cyber-crime misfire.
Movies
It's Time To Argue About This Year's Oscar Nominations
There's a big gap between the blockbusters that people pay to see and the movies Hollywood awards itself for making.
Friday A/V Club: The Muhammad Movie That Never Was
'The choice of Paris as the venue of the performance suggests there is a conspiracy against Islam.'
Friday A/V Club: An Exclusive Look at Sony's Revised Cut of The Interview
Or something like that
Four Thoughts on North Korea, Hollywood, Free Speech, and Terrorist Threats
Notes from the post-Interview era
Texas Theater Will Show Team America in The Interview's Place
The Alamo Drafthouse takes a stand.
The Sony Hack and the First Amendment
If Sony sued to keep the press from publishing info acquired by hackers, it would probably lose.
Free Speech and Free Jazz
A documentary captures the life of civil libertarian and music critic Nat Hentoff.
Freeform Radio: The Movie
Doing radio without commercials, underwriting, or government subsidies.
Stillborn Utopia
Masdar City is an $18 billion attempt to build a zero-carbon community on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. It's empty.
Video Game Violence: A Scientific 'Consensus' Cracks
Reel violence does not lead to real violence.
Friday A/V Club: A Haunted-House Triple Feature for Halloween
Au Secours!, There It Is, and The Live Ghost.
Nightcrawler and Horns
Jake Gyllenhaal brings the creepy, Daniel Radcliffe gets lost in a failed fright flick.
