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Hyde Park on Hudson: Bill Murray as FDR and the inside story of the 32nd president’s love affair with Margaret Suckley

Hyde Park on Hudson: Bill Murray as FDR and the inside story of the 32nd president’s love affair with Margaret Suckley

Bill Murray as FDR along with the rest of the cast in Roger Michell’s Hyde Park on Hudson makes the secret but not so secret love affair with Roosevelt’s distant cousin Margaret Suckley aka “Daisy” (Laura Linney; The Squid and the Whale, The Truman Show) a funny adventure at…

Don’t worry, little Earthlings, you’re safe from any sort of giant asteroid wiping us out (for now)

Don’t worry, little Earthlings, you’re safe from any sort of giant asteroid wiping us out (for now)

Oh boy. In the case of end of the world theories, it’s always a little painful to think about what could be. Because who really knows? But it’s always a little more striking to hear of scientific evidence that Asteroid 2012 DA14, capable of wiping out a good…

Silver Linings Playbook review: Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper’s performances show the beauty through mental rage

Silver Linings Playbook review: Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper’s performances show the beauty through mental rage

“The world will break your heart in ten ways to Sunday, that’s guaranteed” At the end of the day we all have our kicks; we all have our little routines, our moments of rage, our very particular psyches, our superstitions, and will even undergo a…

“‘Till death do us part”: Michael Haneke’s Amour is the not so romantic part of lifelong love together [semi-spoiler]

“‘Till death do us part”: Michael Haneke’s Amour is the not so romantic part of lifelong love together [semi-spoiler]

How does one define the oh so complicated thing we call love? Is it found in a kiss, a touch—or in the way two people are able to merely withstand the silence together that defines this lifelong commitment? One could argue that it’s both, but…

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Girls

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Girls

It’s official, everybody. Literally the last person on the planet who hadn’t written a thinkpiece about HBO’s Girls has finally shared their thoughts. I give you 19-time NBA All-Star (holy shit! Seriously?) and official United States cultural ambassador Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s take on Girls. “This season…

Milky Way serves as compass for dung beetles and many species throughout Animal Kingdom

At night while you’re looking up at the sky and contemplating your purpose here on planet Earth, let alone, in the entire universe, there are other little guys out there, too, gazing upon the Milky Way for some insight. Or perhaps in this particular case, for…

TRAPLOVE: Trapstar London’s delicious line of beanies and caps

The first time I came across Trapstar London was while stumbling through Instagram; Cara Delevingne was sporting her logo cap proud and I immediately fell in love with the particular style. And well, let’s just say after peeping through the UK line’s Lookbook and browsing through their…

So James Franco co-directed a movie based on 40 minutes of an 80’s Al Pacino film and things get pretty freaky

Oh boy. James Franco, who’s been pretty busy when you think about it— working on the upcoming Spring Breakers film with the beloved Selina Gomez, starring in Disney’s gigantic budget film Oz, producing a movie about a fetish website Kink.com—and well, co-directing this movie with Travis Mathews, too, apparently: Interior…

The upcoming Yeah Yeah Yeahs album cover is a pink baby eating flubber hanging from a giant purple mosquito

The upcoming Yeah Yeah Yeahs album cover is a pink baby eating flubber hanging from a giant purple mosquito

Ummm hello 1996? The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover for their upcoming album Mosquito due out April 16 is very Butthole Surfers: Electriclarryland-like mixed with hints of some inspiration from the forever rememberable art of the Nirvana Nevermind record. And I love it! An agency Beomsik Shimbe Shim thought up…

“It’s About Time”: GIRLS has a very funny season II premiere [spoiler!]

“It’s About Time”: GIRLS has a very funny season II premiere [spoiler!]

Season 1 of Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy GIRLS left us wondering about all the stuff contemporary twenty-somethings are getting themselves into nowadays, in the midst of living in a world where boyfriends propose the idea of peeing on them in the shower—in a world when…