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Hotel Transylvania: Cartoons, Not Animation

With big-studio millions behind him, Genndy Tartakovsky still goes it alone.

Fist-Fighting With Hip-Hop Headlines: Drake, Iggy Azalea, Etc.

You are a human and you have eyeballs and you also have the Internet, so you've likely read some things. That's sort of what this is, except sort of not too. We went through a ton of headlines of hip-hop "stories" from the past week, picked out the most egregious one, pasted them below, then added ... More >>

And Now, the Least Anticipated Movies of Fall/Winter 2011

​Pop Rocks will return Thursday. The fall/winter movie season kicked off last weekend as Contagion dominated the box office (the highly touted Warrior, not so much). I've already covered, in some depth, those releases coming up in the remainder of 2011 that might merit a closer look. We learn ... More >>

Kickass Movies of the Year

Our Ten Favorites from 2010 – including Jackass 3D.

Idol Beat: So Long, Siobhan

​I think last night's American Idol was supposed to be country-themed, to go along with the Shania Twain songs the contestants sang on Tuesday, but as I should have known, any organization that thinks of Shania Twain as country is going to have some weird ideas about genre. Rascal Flatts stopp ... More >>

American Idol: So Long, Siobhan

​I think last night's American Idol was supposed to be country-themed, to go along with the Shania Twain songs the contestants sang on Tuesday, but as I should have known, any organization that thinks of Shania Twain as country is going to have some weird ideas about genre. Rascal Flatts stopp ... More >>

The Best and Worst Christmas Specials of All Time

Every winter brings the onslaught of family tension, shopping, and that most American of pastimes, the Christmas special. They're typically half an hour, though they can be longer, and they often take characters from an already-established world and run them through the gauntlet of festivities surro ... More >>

Slide Show: Albums That Went Darker

​ For most rock acts, the traditional way to deal with success is to rework their lyrics, image and sound to become palatable to a larger audience. Usually this means brightening the subject matter, cleaning up the bad words, softening the sharp edges on those power chords and getting haircuts tha ... More >>

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

After the Wedding

What comes after the nuptials in this Danish melodrama? A hell of a lot more than the reception

COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE

How a theater on the verge of insolvency has reversed its fortunes

Our top DVD picks for the week of March 21

Our top DVD picks for the week of February 7

Death Warmed Over

Romance is alive -- and dead -- in Just Like Heaven

Bird Droppings

Disney's Valiant effort never leaves the hangar

Get Gertie

A man wants a Date with Drew, and he's not a stalker ... really

Cope With This

Finally, someone figures out how to craft an interesting rock/hip-hop blend

Strings Attached

Operatic popster Rufus Wainwright exits "gay hell" and enters his most fertile period

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Filling the Blue-Eyed-Soul Hole

Justin Timberlake leads the charge of new melanin-challenged soul brothers

Hissin' Dixie.

Country stars battle it out on the eve of war

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

The Last Picture Show

Now playing At the Drive-In: The Rise of Sparta

Dr. Strange

Grant Morrison's the best writer in comics--and maybe the oddest

Do Look Back

The Band dances The Last Waltz, but can time heal old wounds?

Flunk You

If Fox expels Undeclared, blame everyone but Judd Apatow

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

Hookers and Blow

Buckcherry says screw that PC crap, and take us as we are

Shelf Life

Long after Britney Oops her way to obscurity, these releases will continue to sing

A Puff of Smoke

Paul Wesolowski knows the secret word: Groucho

Small Pleasures

Woody Allen's Crooks aims low and succeeds

Ka-Blam!

If the X-Men were a metal band: Powerman 5000

Bright Melodies

Blinker The Star's new CD is brooding and beautiful

Murfreesboro Rocks

The next Seattle is in...Tennessee?

Haunting Wanting

Fear factor falls short in this glossy horror remake

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The Sound of Money

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Spielberg's Lost

The Jurassic Park sequel isn't nearly nasty enough

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