A chair made out of cassettes, Chap Stick for your iPhone, and a hands-free stylus you won't want to wear in public.
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Sports bars ≠ ballers, Cynthia.
Sam Smith Has to Pay Royalties to Tom Petty for ‘Stay With Me’You were right: "Stay With Me" is totally like "I Won't Back Down."
Andrew Rannells on Girls and His Love for Lena Dunham and Nancy Meyers"Nancy [Meyers] to me is the ultimate, and it did not disappoint. It’s like 50 Shades of Cream on that set."
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Recap: The Chamber of AssesGina gets a serious moment, and Amy meets the comptroller.
Look at Nick Offerman’s New, Mustache-less FaceIt is like the Mona Lisa, but with a chin strap, basically.
Emile Hirsch Might Have Assaulted a Film ExecutiveWho works at Paramount Pictures.
SAG Awards 2015: The Complete Winners ListViola Davis and Uzo Aduba made SAG history.
Full House Cast Reunites, Sings the Show’s Theme SongFor series creator Jeff Franklin’s birthday.
Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman on Their Sundance Comedy The Overnight and Prosthetic Penises"Aside from that thing there, you are totally nude. And it's pretty scary, but it's liberating, too."
It airs on HBO in March.
"Let’s face it: Vampire stories are not the deep end of literature, no matter what metaphorical pretensions are offered in their defense."
Looking Recap: A New LeafThis week welcomed back the show's distinctive, subtle groove.
Togetherness Recap: Fatter at NightEveryone's making the wrong connections.
Downton Abbey Recap: Shooting Up, Mouthing OffThings get a little more interesting at Downton. Oh, and a lot more heroin-y.
Girls Recap: A Very Culturally Specific StatementEveryone is unraveling.
Why Larry David the Schmuck Was the Best Thing to Happen to Larry David the MenschEveryone’s favorite curmudgeon is bringing his particular brand of disagreeability to Broadway. In a play about the ultimate nothing.
9 Things Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, and Your Other Female Faves Said at SundanceMovie studios still don't know what to do with female writers.
American Sniper Has Brought in More Than $200 Million at the Box OfficeWelcome to America.
Sons of Liberty Is Pretty Good, in Between the Action ScenesIt gets better as it goes along, but you should still probably just re-watch John Adams.
Sundance: Twisty-Turny Punk-Comedy-Thriller Dope Stands OutThere's a good reason that Rick Famuyiwa's film has hit the festival like a neutron bomb.
And how Pine would die in the apocalypse.
Saturday Night Live: Blake Shelton Stars in The Voice Crossover EpisodeIt's synergy, baby!
Birdman Scores a Surprise Win at the Producers Guild AwardsThe race is on.
Rihanna, Kanye, and Paul McCartney Release New CollaborationIt's called "FourFiveSeconds."
Sundance: Diary of a Teenage Girl Steers Clear of Scolding or MoralizingAnd young star Bel Powley is staggeringly good in it.
Sundance: Tense, Frightening The Witch Places Viewers in the Minds of Puritan SettlersA place of terrors both imagined and real.
Sundance: Z for Zachariah Doesn’t Live Up to ExpectationsThe descent into a tepid thriller of sexual jealousy slowly negates the film's abstract, almost metaphorical quality.
#manspreading?
Stephen Collins’s Divorce Is (Finally) FinalizedBye.
Did We Turn George R.R. Martin On to Free the Nipple?Maybe.
Who's part of the mile-high club?
Sundance: You’ll Never Guess Who Jack Black Just Hooked Up WithIt's a shocker.
Bill Maher Thinks the American Sniper Is More Like a ‘Psychopath Patriot’Maher doesn't think Chris Kyle is very Christian.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Talks Campus Rape and The Hunting Ground at SundanceShe wants to "flip the incentives" so that universities report sexual assault.
Sundance: (Very) Early Oscar Buzz for Jason Segel’s Portrayal of David Foster Wallace"Transformative."
Glee Recap: A Suitcase Full of Glitter and TearsThe show returns to its darkly hilarious roots.
Broad City’s BodyByTrey.Biz Is Also Real, Also AmazingCha-chinga!
Kevin Costner’s New Moves: The Actor on Stepping Into Racial Politics With Black or White“One of the reasons I financed this film is so the script that I read—the script I just could not ignore—would not become a casualty of conventional moviemaking.”
The Sundance Sexfest Continues With Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman’s Naked Dance PartyBoth stars go full frontal ... but there's a twist.
Julia Roberts Is Making a Batkid Movie????????????She will produce and star?????!!???
"Everyone is giving [cookies] to me thinking that I cannot stop eating cookies."
A Vulture Says FarewellTusk!
Netflix Gets Duplass Brothers to Create 4 Very Mumbly Feature FilmsIt's a Sundance miracle!
It Follows Trailer: How to Make STDs Even ScarierA horror movie about a sexually transmitted something.
Eminem, Danny Brown, and the Rest of Motor City Represents in ‘Detroit Vs. Everybody’Featuring Eminem, Big Sean, Danny Brown, Royce da 5'9", Trick Trick, and Dej Loaf.
Submarine Thriller Black Sea Is a Rattling Good RideStarring Jude Law and Scoot McNairy.
Benedict Cumberbatch Dresses Like Original Sherlock, Looks GreatSpoiler alert.
The Prototype Festival Gives Opera-Makers — and Courtney Love — Space to Try New ThingsCan it grow without disappointing those who treasure it most?
Is This Week’s Bob’s Burgers Musical Number the Best One Yet?We have the exclusive preview.
Did You Root for the Americans During the ‘Miracle on Ice’? Red Army Will Make You Sympathize With the Other SideA new documentary looks at Russian hockey in the 20th century.
