How Much Will Super 8’s Box Office Affect Original Movies? Less Than You’d Think

Is it really the make-or-break moment it's being portrayed as?

Russell Crowe Takes Stance Against Circumcision

"I love the apples and the honey and the funny little hats but stop cutting yr babies."

Are The Killing’s Cops Good or Bad at Their Jobs? We Ask Two Real Detectives

We're experts on TV cops, but we needed someone who knows real cops to tell us if Linden and Holder are any good.

Will.I.Am Is Not Having the Best Week Ever

Back-to-back screw-ups for the Black Eyed Peas front man.

Tracy Morgan Does Yet Another Homophobic Stand-up Set [Update: And Apologizes For It]

Women aren't really attracted to other women, they just hate men, he told a Nashville crowd.

Jerry Saltz’s Best and Worst of the Venice Biennale

His five personal favorite pavilions and his three least favorite.

Christina Hendricks on Her Love of Gossip Girl and Missing Mad Men

"Well, I love Ed Westwick. I just love his outfits, if nothing else, so."

Theater Reviews: The Not-Exactly-Lost Tennessee Williams Returns; Plus: The Tiny Thriller That Could

Moisés Kaufman has brought us the great late Tennessee Williams play that never was.

Lucky Trailer: Colin Hanks, Killing People

See the trailer for this serial-killer comedy.

Rowan Joffe Is Writing the WikiLeaks Movie for HBO and BBC

He's the guy who wrote 'The American.'

Vulture Bytes: Video Apps for Psychedelic Nostalgia

A psychedelic videocam, a Broadway tracker, a nostalgic video generator, a lyrical Rock Band, and mature ringtones.

Which Actors Will Be Ubiquitous Over the Next Year?

Now that Natalie Portman is taking a breather, who can challenge her for sheer filmic volume?

Love Bites’s Becki Newton on the Show’s Long Delay, Cheating on NBC, and Marrying a Stooge

"Some shows just hit right away. Some don't. All I can do is look for things that are fun and inspiring."

In Memoriam: In Honor of Super 8, A Look Back at Other Trains that Went too Soon

Rest in peace, dear choo-choos.

The Last Thirty Years of the Song of the Summer, Condensed Into Chart Form

Deep, dark secrets are revealed through our statistical analysis.

Medeski Martin & Wood

This jazz-funk trio started out an acoustic New York piano act like any other, but after tweaking their approach and opening for Phish, Medeski Martin & Wood became conquering heroes of the late '90s jam-band circuit. Quiet, contemplative players tend to flounder in Central Park, but MMW, with its ecstatic melding of John Medeski's frenetic keyboards, Chris Wood's greasy bass, and Billy Martin's snick-snack drumming should blast its sound high, far, and deep.

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