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Archives for December 2014


At last a movie about race that doesn’t have a white hero.


It pulled in $15 million over the long weekend, according to Sony.


Under the agreement, Aereo will allow the broadcasters -- including CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox -- to attend the auction of the assets.


The movie is ultimately a celebration of American ignorance of other countries.


A Q&A with the physician and science writer on his new book.


That’s simultaneously a pretty good number and a bit of a disappointment.


These 26 songs aren’t necessarily 2014’s best. But they’re among its most memorable, and each filled a highly specific niche.


The secrets behind some of the web’s most popular charts and graphs


The perfect film for your surprisingly cool younger cousin, your grandparents, and that one relative who’s way too smart.


Tiny, upside-down trees and thermostabilized turkey


For some reason, in the film Kim Jong Un insists that he “has a butthole.”


Portraying the movie as an act of defiance against Kim Jong Un buys into his propaganda and helps him stay in power.


“It all happened like this: one very windy day last November my hood blew off and went and stuck on the top of the North Pole.”


Defecation in the nativity scene doesn’t mock Christianity — it helps explain it.


What you and your parents need to know before seeing Foxcatcher