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Interesting insights into how Women and Beauty have been perceived over the past century.

Must. See. Now! Actors Nathan Fillion and Clark Gregg chat with director Joss Whedon about their new film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing .

Whoah! The new Phoenix song/video "Entertainment" is pretty fantastic. It could almost be too ambitious, but  Entertainment  is just that, entertainment, and it successfully (even heroically) juggles several complex story lines, crossing time and countries, into one humble song narrative with finesse. Entertainment is lofty: The plot contains a Major Love Story, some costume drama, a bit of communism, several doses of revenge, hate, longing, loss, even murder, and redemption…Pretty ballsy to attempt weaving issues as thematically dense as these are into one little old rock video.   But, it works.  (And not just because it's cast with incredibly gorgeous actors, either.)    I guess this is why smart music producers hire good directors, like  Patrick Daughters , to make these things.  Key word:  Smart. Heck, I truly enjoyed it.  Frankly, I always appreciate having something worth pondering while rocking out. So much more brave than just trying to be ambiguous for

Jess Desom's extremely cool handiwork breaks down then re-weaves all the different scenes and goings on in Hitchcock's masterpiece, Rear Window, capturing one total narrative as seen from James Stewart's apartment over the course of the film into one three minute mini-masterpiece. Must see. Sort-of hammers home the truth that perspective is all.