Sinead O’Connor pens open letter to Miley Cyrus.
The reign of morons is here.
Related: Meet the morons who caused the shutdown.
The saddest paragraph you’ll read about the government shutdown today.
Laura Miller on what Stanley Kubrick got wrong about The Shining.
R. Kurt Osenlund interviews Andrea Arnold.
At Grantland, Tom Carson asks a chilling question: Is Ron Howard actually a good director?
James Franco steps into the maze that is Prisoners.
Millions of poor are left uncovered by health law.
Matt Zoller Seitz’s The Wes Anderson Collection gets a trailer:
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