IDOL GAMES

Shawn Amos, 05/25/12

Amos Content Group

We'll take a trip down Internet memory lane in this week's "60 Seconds of Social Media" to see how it all began.

Annette Insdorf, 05/25/12

Director of undergraduate film studies, Columbia University, and author of PHILIP KAUFMAN

"Road movies" may be associated primarily with American film -- from The Grapes of Wrath to Easy Rider -- but the Brazilian director Walter Salles is growing into a master of the genre.

Gregory Weinkauf, 05/25/12

Poet, pundit, award-winning entertainment writer, lives to dance

It's a raucous, rollicking ride, as visually stunning -- in truly sensational 3D -- as it is hilarious and exciting. The Oscars, which usually lean Heavy and Significant, really should launch a category for Funnest Picture.

Chris Krapek, 05/25/12

Film Blogger

Full frontal male nudity is the manifest destiny of dick jokes. It's all the hard -- and sometimes flaccid -- work of our forefathers of comedy finally paying off. Charlie Chaplin would be so proud.

Christina Cauterucci, 05/25/12

Communications professional and graduate student; editor, Where the Girls Go

Though it's impressive that a mainstream television show centered on queer women has seen such success, the show's distorted depiction of lesbian culture is something to mourn, not celebrate. Young queers deserve positive, nuanced examples of lesbians in mainstream media.

Rollo Ross, 05/25/12

Film festival guru, entertainment expert, premiere whore and sometime slayer of dragons

It's Day 10 of Cannes and the annual festival fatigue has well and truly set in. I arrived at the press junket for the new HBO movie Hemingway and Gellhorn to find most of the other journalists there acting like doped up zombies. Even Nicole Kidman tells me how exhausted she is before my interview starts...

Noel Gallagher, 05/25/12

Singer/Songwriter: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Did a show a couple of days ago at the Budokan. Quite a prestigious gig. Bob Dylan played here back in the day as did a little known band from Liverpool called The Beatles. It's quite a big deal. Up there with Madison Square Gardens, Wembley Stadium, the Hollywood Bowl and erm... the Boardwalk!!

Michael Varrati, 05/25/12

Actor, writer, and pop culture enthusiast

The advent of the digital era has made the concept of disposable celebrity a living, breathing albatross around the neck of entertainment culture.

Anya Marina, 05/25/12

Singer/songwriter

I said when I started this column that I'd be checking out some of the various theories that floated up to explain the fact that my fellow she-performers and I just don't get the action that our male peers do while on the road. "Guitar as Cockblock" was my favorite.

Leslie Sisman, 05/25/12

Writer/editor, PopcornDiary.com

Before the opening credits, we can already see why this film has been so phenomenally successful in Europe. It's hard to imagine a more joyful film.

G.L.O.C., 05/25/12

Women of a Super High Caliber

Not every pilot written by a woman will be picked up, but women are garnering more attention for their work in television and their presence will only continue to grow in upcoming years.

Maureen Ryan, 05/25/12

TV critic, The Huffington Post

Why is hate-watching the only realistic option? Because loving or even liking this expensive misfire is simply not possible. Don't let the fancy names in the cast fool you: "Hemingway and Gellhorn" is a stupid, stupid movie.

Jonathan Kim, 05/25/12

Film Critic for ReThink Reviews, the Uprising Show, What the Flick?!

Why, ten years after an underperforming sequel, is there a Men In Black 3? Are there burning questions about agents J (Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) that were left unresolved? Is there an arch-nemesis still on the loose?

Mike Ragogna, 05/25/12

Radio Personality on Solar Powered KRUU-FM, Music Biz Vet

Kimberly Nagaran, 05/25/12

TV enthusiast; Online blogger

The Superstars each found and chose two amateur protégés to sing alongside them in the coming weeks. Sorry, America, but it looks like you won't get a hand in choosing this show's winner.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin, 05/25/12

Producer extraordinaire (Ramone) and acclaimed singer-songwriter (Evin)

This week our playlist includes music by John Lee Hooker, Bee Gees, Pretenders, Bernard Herrmann, Pyyramids and more.

Abe Schwartz, 05/25/12

Writer, producer, consumer

One of my favorite shows is Parks and Recreation. I recently had the chance to sit down, drink iced tea and talk with staff writer, Aisha Muharrar, who is both insanely talented and a much more patient iced tea drinker than me.