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Intermission: The Best Cellphone Movie You've Ever Seen
Shame on the people filming fights at fast-food restaurants with their cellphone cameras. They could have been doing this.
News
4 Things The Hunger Games Can Teach Us About the War on Women
Katniss manages to destabilize and ultimately upend a government hell-bent on manipulating her to its nefarious ends.
Culture
Overrated: Bully's R Rating Should Mean the End of the MPAA
Teenagers will be barred from watching a documentary about what teenagers actually say and do to one another.
Culture
Mapping the Movies: 50 Films for 50 States Infographic
For fans of maps and cinema, take a look at Reddit user Subtonix's U.S. map that replaces state names with films that take place there.
Culture
Incredible Video: A 6-Month, 2,200-Mile Appalachian Trail Hike Shortened to Five Minutes
Thanks to this film, you can hike the entire East Coast in the time it takes to boil water.
Culture
The Upside of The Help Controversy: It Made Us Talk About Race
The Help has been accused of revisionism and racism. But it's also made a young black media activist want to record her grandma's story.
Education
Is College Worth the Money? Answers from Six New Graduates
Their answers about whether their degrees are worth it might just surprise you.
Culture
Dive! A New Documentary About Eating from the Trash (and Food Waste)
Check out the trailer for Dive!, a new documentary about a crew of dumpster divers and why they eat so well in America.
Culture
35 Movies in Two Minutes
This brilliant film strips 35 movies down to their most iconic imagery and presents them all in a single, fluid two-minute animation. Going in...
Culture
Want to Boycott Rupert Murdoch? Good Luck with That
If you say goodbye to NewsCorp, you say goodbye to The Simpsons, Hulu, FX, the National Geographic Channel, and a lot more.
Environment
The Climate Change Movie That Doesn't Care if You Believe in Climate Change
Don't believe in climate change? Don't give a shit about the polar bears? This new documentary is for you.
Lifestyle
Dealbreaker: He's A Man-Child
Whenever I’d ask Gordon a serious question, he’d start re-enacting a courtship scene from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
Culture
Video: Here's a Real House Being Lifted with Balloons, Like in Up
It's from the National Geographic Channel's new show, How Hard Can It Be?, and it's incredible.
Education
GOOD Education: Best Practices
A roundup of lessons learned from GOOD's entire event series on fixing education in America.
Culture
How the Film Industry's Big Budgets Are Killing Movie Theaters
With Netflix streaming on the rise, pricey movie theaters are less and less attractive. Let's lower film budgets and thus ticket prices.
Culture
How Hollywood Maligns Characters Who Don't Drive
In the world of Hollywood films, argues Slate's Tom Vanderbilt, those people who either don't or can't drive are portrayed as losers. He opens...
Culture
Infographic: Visual Proof That Movies Are Getting Worse
Hipsters constantly complain that cinema isn't as good as it used to be. According to this chart, they might be right.
Lifestyle
How SOPA Would Kill Fun
What we’re facing here is the death of fun, a ban on giggling alone at your desk.
