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'Tintin' star Jamie Bell has an eclectic taste in music. Here, here proves it. Presenting his ultimate playlist.

On a crisp morning in October, Peter Vack, star of MTV's 'I Just Want My Pants Back,' took us on a tour of his favorite local antique stores and cafes in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Meet Kristina V, Kolfinna K, Megan Will, Veronika Vilim, and Janice Alida. Five models who'll be burning up runways in 2012.

Contract Killer: Zombies [Free]
Stock up on ammo and prepare to meet the undead. It’s your turn to save humanity from hordes of bloodthirsty corpses by storming zombie-infested cities with weapons blazing. Obliterate all those in your path to rescue civilians and usher them to sunnier, less underworld-friendly environs. An excellent game for those hell-bent on exploring the heady thrill of exploding cerebrums.

As the original girl with the dragon tattoo, Noomi Rapace cultivated her vengeance-seeking alter ego. With two big-ticket films on the horizon, she’s looking at an even brighter future. Lisbeth who?

Hospitality, Hospitality (Merge)
We’re always up for some early ’90s-style indie-pop, and this album’s a charmer. Not every track is a gem, but when these Brooklynites hit their mark, their music is as fun and infectious as it gets. “Friends of Friends” belongs on every college radio playlist worth its salt. And speaking of campus, here’s another standout: “Liberal Arts,” wherein vocalist Amber Papini sings about the futility of pursuing “a B.A. in English Literature / instead of law or something more practical.” The album is perhaps a bit twee for some tastes, but what Hospitality do they do very well: idiosyncratic pop that’s catchy without falling into verse-chorus-verse predictability. (Fun fact: the “Su Chia, Su Chia, Su Chia!” chorus of “Betty Wang” is the title character’s Chinese name).

Carnage
The easiest way to shock the bourgeoisie is to hold up a mirror, something Carnage director Roman Polanski knows a thing or two about. Adapted from the Tony-winning play by Yasmina Reza, this barbed and lively film owes everything to its exceptional leads—Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, and John C. Reilly—and is so agoraphobic it could almost have been filmed on a stage set. The scene is contemporary Brooklyn, with its peculiar liberal clash of granola and BlackBerrys. Two couples, one haughty in its feigned lack of pretension, the other pretentious in its delusions of grandeur, meet in an apartment one winter afternoon to discuss an afterschool brawl that involved the child of one pair thwacking the offspring of the other with a stick. It doesn’t take long for everything to come apart at the seams. After several hysterical monologues and a prodigious amount of vomit courtesy of Ms. Winslet, what remains is a miasma of hypocrisy and self-delusion, which is not to say the whole affair isn't terribly funny. If nervous laughter is a sign that you’re too close to home, Carnage cuts to the quick. —Megan Conway

January 3—Lindsay Lohan is released from rehab, no joke. (Because aren’t Lindsay jokes played out by now?) 5—Cirque Du Soleil hopes to un-stiffen those upper lips when its limber show, Totem, premieres at London’s Royal Albert Hall. 10—Although we wouldn’t really call Matt LeBlanc an actor, he plays one on TV! Showtime’s Episodes premieres tonight, in which Joey portrays a version of himself.

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One man’s leftovers are another man’s masterpiece, at least in the case of U.K. artist Ruben Ireland, who’s extended his creative palette to include a few unusual elements. “Steak-and-kidney pie has thick oils and juices that can create an incredible variety of dark, murky browns and light, crispy browns,” he says, detailing the possibilities of making art from food. “It also gives the paper a strange kind of sheen.”