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On "Mad Men," Don Draper Demands His Pound of Flesh

The definitions are simplistic, but they have stuck with me since I learned them in a middle school Bible class: "grace" is getting what you don't deserve; "mercy" is not getting what you do deserve. The difference between the two.....

"Protect," My Ass: The Man of Steel Destroys More Than He Saves, According to Damage Consultants

In Steven Lloyd Wilson's piece on Overthinking Superman this morning, he blockquoted a crucial and related issue that comic-book writer Mark Waid had with Man of Steel: The essential part of Superman that got lost in MAN OF STEEL, the...

Turns Out, Not Everyone Thinks Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy Was All That Courageous

You think Kristen Bell is excited about returning to Veronica Mars? It certainly looks like it. (Frank's Way) Pajiba Love is not typically where we pimp movies, but this documentary -- How to Make Money Selling Drugs -- looks fantastic,...

"Community" Writer, Megan Ganz, Tweets the PERFECT Response to Dan Harmon's Rape Analogy

Dan Harmon has since apologized for comparing season four of "Community" to watching his family raped on a beach, in during the interim -- between the analogy and the apology -- Megan Ganz, one of the best writers on the...

Biz Break: Just When You Thought John Travolta's Hair Couldn't Get Any More Batsht Insane, IT DOES.

David Twohy and Vin Diesel team for the third installment in the Super Fun Adventures of Space Fugitive Riddick! Diesel plays the man with the built-in night vision, pursued by every bounty hunter in the galaxy and left to burn...

You Can Watch the Pilot for Showtime's New Liev Schreiber Series, "Ray Donovan" Right Now!

We're in a very icky part of the summer, if you're used to watching gobs and gobs of great television. At this point, the only "great" television left is "Mad Men," "Hannibal," and "Veep," all of which end this week,...

A "Mary Poppins" Remake, As Envisioned by Christopher Nolan

I'm not sure if Ken Levine -- a former "Cheers," "Wings," and "MASH" writer/producer, as well as the guy who wrote the awesome Tom Hanks movie, Volunteers and, er, Mannequin: On the Move -- is officially retired from writing, but...

Man Of Steel - Your Verdict

Mark reviews the long-awaited Man Of Steel and asks what people thought of the film.

Dan Harmon Basically Apologies to All of Humanity with the Flippant, Self-Absorbed Sincerity We Know and Love

When you're dealing with a guy like Dan Harmon, you have to remember that genius doesn't come without consequence: He's neurotic and wildly insecure, and that insecurity is rooted in his own narcism, so there's a lot of conflicting psychoses....

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1. "Big News Forges Its Own Path." By David Carr, for The New York Times. About how so many major news stories these days find their way into national conversation by way of "asymmetrical journalism." "Any number of big stories haveShow More Summary

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1. "A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts." The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates on why class-based social programs don't address African-Americans' problems. "White-supremacist policy is older than this country. It begins with the slave codes in mid-17th-century colonial Virginia. Show More Summary

Crying on the Outside

Dear Readers: I cried yesterday at a retreat while listening to Michael Buble's rendition of "Smile." The tears came from out of nowhere. I was in a stretch class, on the floor stretching before my next exercise class. The instructor...Show More Summary

Bonnie & Clark: How a gory gangster picture led to Hollywood's first superhero blockbuster

In 1966, "It's A Bird, It's A Plane...It's Superman!" opened on Broadway. The show is a mixture of classic craftsmanship (the score is by "Bye Bye Birdie" composers Charles Strouse and Richard Adams; its yearning string sections andShow More Summary

Fill the Void

Claustrophobia isn't often considered a cinematic asset beyond tales of suspense and horror. But the award-winning Israeli drama "Fill the Void," about a naive 18-year-old girl in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic community who dreams of finding the perfect match in an arranged marriage, capitalizes on its cloistered atmosphere. Show More Summary

Dirty Wars

"Dirty Wars" tells many of us what we already know, that the U.S. War on Terror has become what Borat once called our "War of Terror." The basic idea is that our elected officials are now committed to a high-tech version of terrorism,...Show More Summary

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1. "Does Sofia Coppola have a problem with privilege, or do her critics?" For CriticWire, Sam Adams wonders why Coppola's feature films, informed as they are by the experience of privilege and sophisticated in how they present it, have been derided as spoiled brat filmmaking every since the director's 1998 debut with The Virgin Sucides. Show More Summary

Superman times 10: the most amazing incarnations of comics' most durable superhero

You can't be a Superman fan without being a little bit defensive. Superman's a great symbol because of the unique way he, as an alien with a battery of superpowers, relates to puny mortals. He has godlike abilities but chooses to champion...Show More Summary

5 Shows After Dark 6/17/13

"Switched at Birth" on ABC Family at 8:00p ET. The persistence of certain types of stories in our culture fascinates me, and the switched at birth story is one of them. We have examples of it going back centuries and...

How Messy Do You Like Your Heroes? 10 Of TV And Film's Most Beautiful Disasters

It's no mystery that we love a flawed hero. Who wants to see a glossily perfect human being float through life? Where's the drama (or even the comedy) in that? Heck, even the most recent Superman, our own American Jesus,...

A Photographic Tribute to Television's Most Unconventionally Romantic Couple