Movies
Friday A/V Club: A Nightmare Vision of a World Without Congress
The 1947 "instructional" film The Powers of Congress
Divergent and Nymphomaniac: Volume I
Shailene Woodley breaks out, Lars von Trier goes all the way.
Veronica Mars and Grand Piano
Kristen Bell back on the case, Elijah Wood playing for his life.
Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt?
The novel that praises the sanctity of money becomes a movie that's a labor of love over budgets.
The Grand Budapest Hotel and 300: Rise of an Empire
Ralph Fiennes between two wars, ancient Greeks back in the thick of one.
For Anyone Who Wonders What Thomas Frank Thinks of the Films of Harold Ramis…
Liberals do not "own the imagery of subversion and outsiderness."
No, It Isn't Surprising That Ghostbusters Mocked the Government
Anti-authoritarian movies and anti-authoritarian public policy
Friday A/V Club: Fascism, Anarchy, and Democracy in After-School Clubs
Kurt Lewin's experiment in leadership styles: the movie
How Much of That Oscar Statue Did You End Up Paying For?
Governments do their job of propping up the rich
Win a Free Copy of The United States of Paranoia
And check out the new Web series This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory.
LA Entertainment Reporter Mistakes Samuel Jackson for Lawrence Fishburne
Jackson calls reporter "as crazy as the people on Twitter"
The Bizarre New Deal Comedy That Made Shirley Temple a Star
Watch the 1934 movie Stand Up and Cheer.
Shirley Temple Dead at 85
The former child movie star served as U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia
Hunger Games to Be Completed with CGI Philip Seymour Hoffman
Had some scenes left to film before he died
Unfinished Hunger Games Sequel Will Need Change After Philip Seymour Hoffman Death
Unnamed exec said one emotional speech was left to film
Authorities Find 50 Bags of What is Thought To Be Heroin in Philip Seymour Hoffman's Apartment
The actor was found dead in his Manhattan apartment yesterday
Labor Day and Tim's Vermeer
Kate Winslet in a slushy romance, Penn and Teller on the trail of an artistic mystery.
"Alone Yet Not Alone" Oscar Nomination for Best Song Rescinded
Composer accused of improper lobbying
Tarantino Sues Gawker for Disseminating Movie Script
Canceled a Western movie after plot leaked out
Guns Against Government
A maker of the gun ad the NFL didn't want in the Super Bowl wants Americans to understand they might need guns to fight tyranny.
Quentin Tarantino Putting Script for Western on Hold After It Leaks
Says he only shared it with six people
