TV & Film News
Critical 5 things to do in L.A.: let’s do this, May 17-19
By Darianne DobbieIt’s go time.
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Watch They Might Be Giants pay homage to nanobot overlords in wacky video
By Liam CarrollMore machine than man.
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Critical 5 things to do in L.A.: some summer, May 10-12
By Darianne DobbieGet some.
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Springfield goes Iceland: Sigur Ros featured in new Simpsons episode
In living color.
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Manic Street Preachers doc celebrating debut album to be screened in the UK
Alienation and boredom never looked so good.
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Critical 5 things to do in L.A.: pop goes the weekend, April 19-21
Whack-a-mole-weekend!
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New on DVD: flicks to counter your spring fever, April 26
New DVD releases bring the heavy stuff.
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New Stone Roses doc captures the rise and fall and rise of the Madchester men
The story of a surprising reunion.
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Louise Log is quintessential New York, whispers its way into all our hearts
Get with the program.
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Post-apocalyptic Twinkie hunt continues: Amazon greenlights Zombieland pilot
But will audiences bite?
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Vampire Weekend burned some cars, became best buds with Steve Buscemi
Oh, they also released some new music.
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Pulse Films and Screenburn join forces for music documentary extravaganzas
Best of both worlds.
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Get schooled in the works of Karen Black by Brooklyn's Nitehawk Cinema
Back in Black.
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Hugh Jackman back to old scruffy self in first The Wolverine trailer
No ninja is safe.
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Pedro Almodovar's new film promises wacky, sexually ambiguous hijinks at 30,000 feet
We're so excited!
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Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman moving from zombies to exorcisms with new show
From the Governor to Pizuzu?
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Critical 5 things to do in L.A.: spring into action, March 22-24
If the clocks have to, so do we.
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Drive away in Jesse Pinkman's Toyota Tercel from Breaking Bad
It's all very Kafkaesque.
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Escape From New York reboot to make us wish we could escape from the multiplex
Bust out your eyepatch.
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Downton Abbey to be inundated with new exciting house guests in Season Four
Plus, Shirley MacLaine is back!
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Dave Grohl releases in-studio footage with Sound City supergroup
A Mantra that bears repeating.
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Tom Hanks wants to be on the ground floor of this whole Neil Gaiman business
Bosom buddies indeed!
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Busy bee James Franco's SNL school project gets distribution deal
This is no baking soda volcano
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Get ready for more modern family drama from The Kids Are All Right producers
You thought your family was complicated.
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Steven Spielberg tackling another unfinished Kubrick project, but at what cost?
No creepy child robots this time around.
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Magnolia puts the moves on Lars Von Trier and the mysterious Nymphomaniac
Get a room.
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Andy Samberg detains another costar for upcoming playful cop comedy
Read the man his rights.
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The Weinstein Company to get cozy with young adult readers
But are Harvey and Bob getting too commercial?
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Bryan Cranston to tell Godzilla to stay out of his territory in new reboot
Godzilla vs. Heisenberg.
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Watch Al Pacino wig out as Phil Spector in HBO biopic trailer
This whole trailer is out of order!
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Critical 5 things to do in L.A.: do it differently, Feb. 15-17
It’s the same, only different.
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Ryan Gosling's directorial debut to be revoltingly full of celeb friends
To catch a star-studded cast.
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Oscar nominees get between two ferns and into Zach Galifinakis' line of fire
Is there an Academy Award for awkward?
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Del Toro revamps, Americanizes The Secret Garden with Beasts screenwriter
Del Toro throws us for another loop.
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Rugged Rodrigo Santoro travels to the Old West with Natalie Portman
...and looks great doing it.
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Critical 5 things to do in L.A.: art it up, Feb. 8-10
Let’s get arty, and maybe creepy.
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Bradley Cooper to star as obsessive true crime writer in mystery adaptation
Brad done it?
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Warners and DC put all their eggs into Man of Steel basket
If Man of Steel tanks, no Justice League film.
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Lena Dunham writing new un-self-centered pilot for HBO
Can Dunham convincingly write Upper East Side comedy?
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CBS and ABC carving new comedy and drama niches this pilot season
Piloting you through pilot season.
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Danny Boyle hopes Trance will put the competition in a deep, deep sleep
But not the audience.
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Starz warms up for Black Swan-esque drama with Breaking Bad help
Hoping this one's no lame duck.
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Aaron Sorkin vanishes from upcoming Houdini musical, tricks up sleeve remain
Abraca- aww, man.
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Newly released Elliott Smith footage bestows uncomfortable honor
An enigmatic retroactive.
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Bradford Cox gets his very own experimental VHS documentary
Take a field trip to the youth museum.
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The Coen Brothers take us Inside Llewyn Davis with bleak, folksy trailer
The blues still run the game.
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The Force is strong with J.J. Abrams: nerd hero to direct new Star Wars film
Episode VII: Attack of the Lens Flares.
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Dominic Cooper to bring on the charm as the real life James Bond
Try not to feel threatened, Daniel Craig.
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