Film

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  Newswire We bid farewell to The Office and met HIMYM's mother this week on The A.V. Club

  Here’s what you may have missed this week on The A.V. Club.

  May 17, 2013 | 5:40pm -

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  Newswire There's already been a jewel heist and a gun scare at this year's Cannes

   And it's only day three.

  May 17, 2013 | 5:11pm -

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  Newswire Spike Lee directing a movie about a 1990s gold prospector

   It was just lying there.

  May 17, 2013 | 2:23pm -

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  Great Job, Internet! Caption Contest: Star Trek Into Darkness goes through the looking glass

  Trek into a pretty decent movie

  May 17, 2013 | 2:00pm -

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  Newswire David O. Russell and Leonardo DiCaprio get hip to the "assassinating JFK" trend that's so hot right now

   Suddenly everyone's doing it.

  May 17, 2013 | 1:37pm -

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  Newswire John Slattery smooth-talks his way into directing some of the best character actors around in his feature debut

   That Slattery can talk anyone into anything.

  May 17, 2013 | 12:36pm -

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  Watch This With Beavis And Butt-head Do America, Mike Judge skewered the idiocy of cinematic adventures

  MTV’s couch-potato satirists “huh-huh” their way through an epic quest.

  May 17, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Newswire It's time for the speculation about Christopher Nolan directing a James Bond film to begin again

   As it must every time there is a new Bond film now.

  May 17, 2013 | 10:56am -

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  Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2013, Day Two: Iranian director Asghar Farhadi chases A Separation with another stunning drama

  Looking at the festival's second day.

  May 17, 2013 | 10:38am -

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  Interview Sarah Polley on laying her family history bare in the new documentary Stories We Tell

  “There’s a moment of catching my breath and wondering if I would have ever made it in the first place if I thought this many people were going to see it.”

  May 17, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  AVQ&A What are your favorite and least favorite cultural baits and switches?

  Stop jerking us around, pop culture.

  May 17, 2013 | 12:00am -

• Great Job, Internet! Watch the opening scene of Casino Royale recreated with Legos

  Are there Lego guns?

  May 16, 2013 | 5:15pm -

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  Newswire Date Movie's Friedberg and Seltzer to next point out the existence of the Fast & Furious franchise 

   There are these movies with cars. Also, here are some other things you have heard of, next to the cars.

  May 16, 2013 | 3:22pm -

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  Great Job, Internet! Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Shaun Of The Dead with a day-by-day photo diary from Edgar Wright

  Memories.

  May 16, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Newswire The Internet does not believe that making Melissa Joan Hart a movie star is worth $2 million

   Thanks a lot, Zach Braff.

  May 16, 2013 | 12:56pm -

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  Movie Review Star Trek Into Darkness

  J.J. Abrams beams a menacing Benedict Cumberbatch into his rebooted franchise.

  May 16, 2013 | 12:20pm -

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  Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2013, Day One: Sofia Coppola offers the first misfire of the festival

  Our look at the first day of Cannes.

  May 16, 2013 | 11:15am -

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  Watch This Laura Palmer lives—however briefly—in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

  David Lynch’s coda/prologue to his hit TV series has a power all its own.

  May 16, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Newswire Reese Witherspoon, Jena Malone, and Martin Short are also joining Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice

   Anderson needs more intoxicated people to take on the police.

  May 16, 2013 | 10:47am -

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  Movie Review Frances Ha

  Greta Gerwig re-teams with Greenberg director Noah Baumbach for a winning comedy about friendship and impending adulthood.

  May 16, 2013 | 12:06am -

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  Movie Review Black Rock

  Three friends fight for their lives in a thriller that seems to resent its obligation to thrill.

  May 16, 2013 | 12:05am -

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  Movie Review Pietà

  How did this punishing new parable from Kim Ki-duk win the top prize at Venice?

  May 16, 2013 | 12:05am -

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  Movie Review Augustine

  A doctor and his patient spar for power in an overreaching period drama.

  May 16, 2013 | 12:04am -

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  Movie Review Erased

  Gratuitous violence can’t compensate for the massive failings of this Aaron Eckhart actioner.

  May 16, 2013 | 12:03am -

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  Movie Review The English Teacher

  Julianne Moore plays the title role of a contrived comedy.

  May 16, 2013 | 12:02am -

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  Movie Review 33 Postcards

  There must be cheaper ways to boost the Chinese and Australian tourism industries…

  May 16, 2013 | 12:01am -

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  Interview Noah Baumbach on how Frances Ha helped him see New York City with new eyes

  “She’s a romantic figure, and part of her task in the movie is to wake up to certain realities.”

  May 16, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Movie Review State 194

  For the uninitiated, here’s a documentary primer on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  May 16, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Newswire Disney quietly kills its gussied up version of Merida, the Brave princess

  The lesson here is that petitions sort of work sometimes.

  May 15, 2013 | 1:35pm -

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  Contest Chicago, see The Hangover Part III early and for free

  Hey, that rhymed.

  May 15, 2013 | 1:25pm -