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Why HBO Renewed Game of Thrones Despite Its Mildly Disappointing Opening-Night Ratings

For one thing, the media can't stop talking about the show.

Who Are Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Playing in The Dark Knight Rises?

Find out!

Diane Lane on Cinema Verite and What She Really Thinks of Reality TV

"It's an oxymoron."

The Royal Wedding Will Be Royally Streamed on Royal YouTube

Phew!

J.J. Abrams Producing Swashbuckling Robot Movie

Take that, 'Real Steel.'

Charting Glee’s Quinn Fabray’s Violent Mood Swings

We got dizzy just making this slideshow about her season-two flips.

Gossip Girl Recap: All I Ever Wanted Was a Simple Fairy Tale

Alas, like the centuries-old folklore from which the popular Disney stories originally derived, fairy tales on the Upper East Side are more complicated.

Beyoncé’s New Single Is Here!

Hear her new single, "Girls (Who Run the World)."

The Help Trailer: Emma Stone and Viola Davis Clean Up

It's the movie adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel.

Chaos, a Show You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, Is Pulled by CBS

Meanwhile, 'Running Wilde' makes a semi-comeback via FX.

Font of Knowledge: Futura’s Great Moments in Pop Culture

What do Ron Swanson, Sandra Bullock, and J.J. Abrams have in common? One elegant typeface.

City of God’s Fernando Meirelles Is Developing an Aristotle Onassis Biopic

We hear it will be a 'Godfather'-like take focusing on his rivalry with RFK.

Coachella in Photos: Crystal Castles, the Kills, Wiz Khalifa, and More

Plus: Cee Lo Green, Arcade Fire, Cage the Elephant, Chromeo, Best Coast, and more, in our weekly concert roundup.

The 8 Cheesiest Lines From Lifetime’s William & Kate Movie

Highlighting great achievements in painful romantic drivel.

Born Bad

A barreling dramatic poem in six-part dissonance, Debbie Tucker Green's Born Bad is an upsettingly funny family portrait, slashed with box cutters and stuck back together with guilt, hurt, and blood. The members of a nameless clan of Jamaican descent lob bitter recriminations and bitterer memories at one another, as the mystery of the family's dysfunction slowly ravels out in language as musical as it is distressing.

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