New This Week
- For our second installment of State Songs, former Texan Jonathan Meiburg—of the band Shearwater—plays the Roy Orbison classic “It’s Over.”
- Five writers made the South By Southwest pilgrimage this year, and they are kind enough to recap and tweet the experience here.
Don’t Miss
- Inventory celebrated the return of David Bowie by looking at 15 notable David Bowie cameos, and looked at adult-oriented side projects from 11 children’s entertainers.
- In Dispatches From Direct-To-DVD Purgatory, Eric Roberts’ anthropomorphic feline in A Talking Cat?!? ruined all other films for Nathan Rabin.
- Jason Heller considered whether the vinyl revival has gone too far, and Todd VanDerWerff examined what we talk about when we talk about Girls.
- Neal Pollack talked to us about surviving the “alternadad” hype in Money Matters.
- The lackluster Burt Wonderstone inspired us to spend the week with five far better films about magicians in Watch This.
- Noel Murray once again asked himself “Why Is This Commercial?” and whether those cute AT&T commercials are pointed enough to work as advertising.
This week in Great Job, Internet!:
- As of this writing, the Internet has given Rob Thomas $3.3 million to make a Veronica Mars movie and set several Kickstarter records.
- The works of Stanley Kubrick were given an animated tribute, and we discovered that Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, and a bunch of other great comedy people reenacted Sixteen Candles in 2004.
- Louis C.K. demonstrated why he’s not to be interrupted, no matter how nice you think his boots are.
What are we arguing about this week?