Is the image of a naked, pierced Rooney Mara opposed to the antimisogyny message of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? The newly released poster moves the date away from Mara’s chest, revealing her bare breasts and pierced nipples. Which is fine, except the story condemns the objectification of women and contains an explicit rape-revenge against the people who’ve degraded her. Sure, Salander spends some time consensually nude in the book – but so does Blomkvist, and Daniel Craig is wearing layers.

THE GREAT GATSBY The best thing about Baz Luhrmann’s much-anticipated/much-dreaded The Great Gatsby is that, for all its computer-generated whoosh and overbroad acting, it is unmistakably F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. That is no small deal. The last major adaptation, in which a recessive Robert Redford reunited with a blank Mia Farrow, substituted deadly Brit tastefulness for Fitzgerald’s polished American vulgarity—the polish (like the characters’ opulence) a façade through which we can discern the baseness of the Jazz Age high life.

Comedian Eugene Mirman did a question-and-answer session on Reddit today, and things instantly got super weird. Right off the bat, Mirman was asked a question by a Reddit user who had been masturbating on the webcam site Chat Roulette when he got randomly linked up with Mirman doing a live comedy show and using Chat Roulette with a projector in front of an audience. On top of that, the internet masturbator recognized Mirman and asked if it was him, and it got written up in The Huffington Post.

This list was first published in 2014, and has been updated to include Beck’s latest music. Describing Beck’s vast catalogue with an adjective — or even five — is a fool’s errand. He broke through during the early ’90s “anything goes” alt-rock boom, hitting big with the slacker-hop anthem “Loser” and carrying that song’s momentum through downcast freak-folk and feedback-drenched jitters on his major-label debut, Mellow Gold. The albums in its wake have followed Beck’s musical flights of fancy to wherever they might lead: amped-up funk, breezy tropicalia, even (gasp!

This story was published in 2019. It has been updated to include this year’s winner “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse.” Although animated films are as old as cinema itself, it wasn’t until the fifth Academy Awards ceremony, for films released in 1931–32, that the Academy added a category for animated cartoons. By that point, the Golden Age of Animation was in full swing — every major studio either operated an animation unit or contracted an independent production company to provide theatrical cartoons to accompany its films.

Some people enjoy, no, love, the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. (I am one of them.) Others, not so much. But even the cynics would be a bunch of lying liars if they weren’t at least a bit titillated by the ceremony’s most crowd-pleasing segment, a tradition informally known by most as the all-star jam or super jam. Beginning in the Hall’s inaugural year and appearing in the majority of ceremonies since, the jam is pretty much what it sounds like — a bunch of legends join together on stage, pick up some instruments, and perform the hell out of a rock standard.

For almost as long as RuPaul’s Drag Race has been on the air, fans each season have waited with bated breath for the recurring challenge that, in RuPaul’s own words, “separates the basic bitches from the fierce-ass queens.” Such is the cultural importance of Snatch Game, a parody of Match Game that tests drag queens’ skills at impersonating pop-culture icons, living or dead (or, in one rare case, nonexistent). Though rules and restrictions change from season to season, the objective has always remained the same: Make RuPaul laugh.

The new Hulu series Castle Rock doesn’t adapt any single Stephen King story directly, but instead takes place in a world of interconnected short stories and novels set within the author’s favorite creepy Maine town. As such, each episode is loaded with references to many of the King characters, books, and films that you know and love. We’re here to break all of them down, episode by episode. “Severance” (Episode 1) Shawshank Penitentiary In one of the most significant King references woven throughout Castle Rock, much of the season’s action takes place at Shawshank Penitentiary.

The writers’ and actors’ strikes are over, and it’s back to the regularly scheduled programs of press promotion, comic cons, and chicken meals. Brazil’s CCXP is one of the first major events in a hot minute that brought out all the trailer announcements with the stars to match. It didn’t go great for Dune: Part 2 star Florence Pugh, who was hit with something at the end of that film’s panel.

At the Cannes Film Festival, there’s a very small window to see a movie; each film screens a few times in one day, and perhaps once more the following day, and then it’s gone. If you missed the boat (or yacht, since it’s Cannes), too bad. This model builds rapid consensus. Certain movies are declared either great or terrible, and others simply dismissed. And in this still very early stage of the festival, the only movie everyone wants to talk about has been Lynne Ramsay’s very appropriately titled We Need To Talk About Kevin.