not to mention the unlikely ascent of a certain billionaire megalomaniac.

Requiem for a Dream. A friend and I were looking for a good movie. I said, "Let's get this one, it has a GIANT EYE on the cover." We took it home and spent the night curled up in a fetal position, crying on the couch.

Spoiler alert: Gugu Mbatha-Raw is later revealed to be Tatiana Maslaney.

Kirk Cameron.

a movie about the Inklings filtered through the hazy, hallucinatory musings of Charles Williams, novelist and occultist.

This movie is so gorgeous. Just heartbreakingly beautiful in every way.

Howard Dean.

As someone who adores Nebraska, how would you say this album rates? I love the storytelling and O'Connor-esque influences on the earlier album, but have actually never heard Tom Joad.

I really hated the Winklevii by the end of The Social Network. I've never seen Burton's Alice because I don't think I could bear to see him ruin one of my favorite novels.

They are an awful band, and the best thing I can say about this song is that it's less awful than anything else they put it.

I enjoyed the first movie, but found the second one kind of dull and thought it repeated too many of the same notes from the original.

Game of Thrones. I've read much of the first book and seen the entire first season. But I can't seem to get it, and I don't know why.

SEAN BEAN is in this movie? *books tickets*

liked for the surprise Gormenghast reference

my ten-year-old mind was blown when I realized Jaleel White was the voice of Sonic in the original cartoon.

this is good news, as I've always felt he and Emma Watson should be in a movie together.

what are the best animes? I have seen the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimaya and Azumanga Daioh

Someday they'll raise the character limit & no one will notice because we're so used to tweeting in 140-character bursts.

this is the first genuinely funny Newswire I've read since O'Neal left.

wait, who thought this was a good idea