If you didn't see The Avengers in its opening weekend, you might have been the only one: the superhero mash-up scored the biggest opening weekend ever with an estimated $200.3 million in its first three days. The story of Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk and co. trying to save the world from an evil alien army is a smashing crowd-pleaser, complete with big explosions, confusing scientific jargon and winks toward the Marvel diehards.

Last night, as I was slipping under the covers to catch some shut-eye, I suddenly had a thought. "Is Andy Griffith dead?" I honestly didn't know. While I couldn't come up with a reason for why I was wondering it in the first place, I was able to reach for my phone to quickly find the answer to my original query. It turns out that Andy Griffith is alive. Phew! But it got me thinking: shouldn't there be a place you can go to find out if a famous person is alive? Well, sure, why not this very site? (Didn't you know that 95% of blogging is actually just performing Google searches? Now you do!) I asked some colleagues and friends if they could name some celebrities whom they honestly did not know were still alive. 

Every day there are some topics that are trending. Since many of them don't make sense, we provide easy contextualization. Also, this way, you won't actually have to know anything about anything.

Chances are, your friends who watch Mad Men still haven’t stopped talking about how amazing / intense / dramatic / Drapetacular (a new adjective created by Mad Men fans solely for the purpose of describing this episode) this past week’s episode was. But one fan of the episode is pretty surprising: David Pryor, the Vice President of brand development at Jaguar USA.

Oh, Greta Gerwig. The Helen of Troy of Mumblecore; the face that launched a thousand Kickstarter campaigns.

Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, an Aliens precursor, won’t be out until Friday, but anticipation is building—in no small part thanks to bits and pieces released on the web. Today’s tidbit is one of the most interesting of them all. A two-minute featurette has dropped explaining how the film’s namesake spaceship was designed.

After winning the Jury Prize at Cannes last year, it was only time before Maïwenn’s third film, Polisse, would make its way into American cinemas. The actress-turned-director and writer may be best known to audiences in the states for her roles in films such as High Tension and The Fifth Element, but she has been writing and acting throughout her entire career, leading up to her most lauded work to date. Both unnerving and jarring, Polisse dives into the world of France’s Child Protection Unit, a police division that handles the children’s safety from sexual abuse to teen crimes. Based on real cases, the film gives a broad overview of the daily life in the unit and they way in which these police must deal with keeping their work and personal lives at a distance. Maïwenn not only co-wrote and directed the film, but she also co-stars as a photojournalist sent in the document the unit. We spoke to Maïwenn about taking on such a heavy subject, how she and her actors prepared, and the challenges of having such a multi-hyphenated job title.

This Friday, Snow White and the Huntsman hits theaters. It's the second attempt to resurrect the fairy tale this year. The first one sucked balls. Like any fairytale, this one can be read on many levels. To help you prepare for the release on Friday, we've prepared a syllabus of some films to watch and books to read to gird yourself for Charlize vs. Kristen.

Hang on to your straw fedoras, gay guys and 14-year-old girls, because the first official trailer for Tom Hooper's big-screen adaptation of Les Misérables, the most spirited musical telling of poor French people in the history of Broadway, is finally online! And everyone's here! Hugh Jackman! Russell Crowe! Emaciated Anne Hathaway! Amanda Seyfried! That guy from Savage Grace (J/K, no one saw Savage Grace) who kind of looks like a snake! Everyone but Taylor Swift, thank God. (Remember when we were all worried that Taylor Swift was going to be in Les Mis? We dodged a bullet there.)

As you can see in the below newly released clip from the upcoming mafia flick Killing Them Softly, Ray Liotta gets beaten up in a mobile home. People being beat up in trailers has a long and hallowed history in the anals of American cinema. Also in the annals of cinemas! But as one used the internet to research this hallowed history, one finds that things didn't go as planned. In fact, one breaks the internet.