The Tree of Life leads Online Film Critics Society Award nominations.
James Bond thinks politicians are "shitheads."
On the heels of U.S. withdrawal, violence in Baghdad.
Retail sales may be up this year, but the holiday box office is disappointing.
New details and pics from The Hobbit.
A new biography on Steve Jobs discusses how, in his final years, the Apple CEO switched from exotic remedies to cutting edge treatments, including ultra-exclusive DNA sequencing that Jobs's doctors claim could make cancer a "manageable chronic disease."
Will the Ohio animal slaughter hurt Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo?
Lindsay Lohan was late for community service, but her porn star doppelgänger wasn't.
Now available, a timeline of Muammar el-Qaddafi's rule over Libya.
The Occupy movement spreads to the world of film with #OccupyCinema.
Via Twitter, Adam Levine tells "evil fucking channel" Fox News to stop playing his music.
Crack open those cans of Duff beer: The Simpsons is staying on TV.
Netflix's Qwikster service is dead even before it was born.
The Nobel prize in economic science was awarded Monday to Thomas J. Sargent at New York University and Christopher A. Sims at Princeton University for their research looking at the cause-and-effect relationship between economic policy and the broader economy.
The studio behind Oscar-nominated Facebook film The Social Network is planning a biopic about Steve Jobs, based on a forthcoming authorized biography of the late co-founder of Apple.
Actress Marzieh Vafamehr will be jailed for a year in Tehran and lashed 90 times for her part in a South Australian film production about the Western influence on life in the Islamic republic.
Steve Pond has read Charlie Kaufman's Frank or Francis.
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Steven P. Jobs has passed away at the age of 56.
Steve Jobs, fashion icon.
Steve Jobs, patent extraordinaire.
Westboro Baptist Church of Hate announced plans to picket Steve Jobs's funeral…using an iPhone.
Sarah Palin finally admits what we've known all along: She's not running for the GOP presidential nomination.
But could she run as a third-party candidate?
G.O.P. Bob Turner gains House seat vacated by Anthony D. Weiner.
Andrew O'Hehir sat a few rows away from Madonna at Toronto.
See the anti-iPhone game that Apple doesn't want you to play.
Orson Welles's original version of The Magnificent Ambersons may be lost to history, but even the compromised cut is a masterpiece—and it's finally on DVD.
Steven P. Jobs, whose insistent vision that he knew what consumers wanted made Apple one of the world's most valuable and influential companies, is stepping down as chief executive, the company announced late Wednesday.
Related: Five ways Jobs changed the movie industry.
The list of top cities for same-sex couples as a portion of the population does not include San Francisco.
Peter Bogdanovich reviews Orson Welles's The Trial.
Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 earthquake leaves cracks in Washington Monument.
For The New York Times, Frank Bruni on the unsavory culinary elitism of Anthony Bourdain, this time directed at Paula Deen.
Below, St. Vincent's video for "Cruel":
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Just when you thought a Todd Solondz film couldn't get any creeper, this happens.
The deadline for entering Time Warner Cable's Short Film Festival, in association with IFC, is October 31. Besides the exposure, the winner will receive a trip to the Sundance Film Festival, a free year of Time Warner Cable digital cable and high-speed internet, and a $4000 camera.
If Apple's your thing and you ever wanted to know what makes Steve Jobs tick, read this John Sculley interview.
Barbara Billingsley, best known as June Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver and the voice of the nanny from The Muppet Babies, passed away this weekend at the age of 94.
Mike D'Angelo on Werner Herzog's masterful interruption of Timothy Treadwell in Grizzly Man.
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Let's make one thing clear right off the bat: I am Mac's ideal demographic. I own one of everything: a laptop and desktop, several iPods and an iPhone. So it wasn't a matter of if I was going to get an iPad, but when. Aside from the relentless abuse I was taking from PC friends about the name of the product, as soon as Steve Jobs made the announcement, everyone wanted to know, "What are you going to do with it?"
I've had the iPad for five days now and what I'm doing with it is reading. Reading a lot. I've actually stopped watching television, apart from what I can watch on the iPad, because the news I might have left on as background noise I can now bring up quickly via several different apps. I've been reading with it at night before going to sleep too. I especially like that, unlike email and e-books on my iPhone, the screen aspect locks because I can read on my side more easily than with a real book. And even Kindle has an app for the iPad, which means the library that had previously been in my iPhone is available in full-page size. The iBook app has a gorgeous display, but the library offered is still pretty small, so the Kindle app has the benefit of offering a lot more of what I want to read…900-page sci-fi epics. It's certainly easier to haul Anathem—or the entire Neal Stephenson oeuvre—around in this format. Continue Reading »
This reminds me of when the McCain campaign failed to vet Sarah Palin:
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