One of my favorite scenes in a movie ever is that sequence in David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo remake where Stellan Skarsgård suspends Daniel Craig in the murder basement of his (beautiful, angular, oh God I want it... More »

Fun Hollywood fact: John Mulaney’s brilliant (and definitely weird) live nightly talk-show experiment, John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A., is called that because pretty much... More »

Much of The Contestant plays out as a chilling meditation on the grotesque dynamics of reality television and celebrity. At the heart of the new Hulu documentary revisiting an outrageous stunt on Japanese television from the late ’90s lies a psychodrama between two individuals or, rather... More »

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Steve Albini, a towering figure of underground rock who recorded some of the genre’s biggest albums and fronted the band Big Black, is dead at 61. Albini had a heart attack, staff at his recording studio con... More »

The hills are alive with the sound of bassy Eurotrash, Slavic rap, and gaudy operatic pop. It could only mean one thing: Eurovision is back. Everyone’s favorite European singing competition kicked off May 7, with two more nights to go on May 9 and May 11. And if there’s ever been a year to watch,... More »