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"FacebookPinterestThumbnail image for russellpeters.jpg\n\n\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n2. Get a (brilliant) history lesson from Steve McQueen. One of the year&amp;amp;#x2019;s most talked-about films hits theaters Friday: 12 Years A Slave. The McQueen-directed film is based on the 1853 Solomon Northup autobiography by the same name\u2014Northup was a free black man who lived in the North with his family before being lured away, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. The film stars Chitwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Here&amp;amp;#x2019;s what our own Tom Carson had to say about comparisons to another historical drama masterpiece:\n\nSome of my fellow failed celebrity chefs\u2014er, colleagues\u2014are already comparing 12 Years A Slave to Schindler's List, but I think that's simplistic. What the two movies share is, chiefly, the unavoidable limitation of a happy ending, since they're both about the exceptions who got rescued from evil and not the millions who weren't. Otherwise, McQueen's vision is all his own. Read the rest of Carson&amp;amp;#x2019;s review &amp;gt; here.\n\n\n\n3. Decode how the Julian Assange saga became a first-rate thriller. The Fifth Estate director Bill Condon on how he made a bunch of IM chats between WikiLeakers so damn tense: &amp;amp;#x201C;That was the big challenge here: It&amp;amp;#x2019;s two guys with laptops. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s a private conversation they&amp;amp;#x2019;re having in public. That&amp;amp;#x2019;s how we came up with these letters that go off the screen and into the room. We let what&amp;amp;#x2019;s happening on the screens take over their environment.&amp;amp;#x201D; See it for yourself in theaters Friday.\u2014DEVIN GORDON\n\n\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n4. Let Little Miss Sunshine scare the shit out of you. Haunter\u2014a new horror flick hitting theaters Friday\u2014doesn&amp;amp;#x2019;t sound particularly scary: teen girl, haunted house, lots of foggy weather. And that&amp;amp;#x2019;s why you&amp;amp;#x2019;ll be totally unprepared when you&amp;amp;#x2019;re clutching the stranger next to you in the theater. Also, when security escorts you out. Abigail Breslin plays the rebellious teen and\u2014spoiler alert!\u2014 she and her family are actually dead. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s a ghost story in reverse. Thing is, she knows but her family doesn&amp;amp;#x2019;t and they continue to obliviously live out the last day of their lives over and over and over again. Until shit gets real. Turns out, the house was haunted all along, which is bad news\u2014unless you like horror movies. In which case, this one&amp;amp;#x2019;s unexpectedly fun. And scary.\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterestNever Trust A Liberal Cover[2].jpg\n\n5. Don&amp;amp;#x2019;t let Ann Coulter drive you crazy. Because she&amp;amp;#x2019;s back, despite never going away. The nine-time New York Times Bestselling author\u2014related: HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?\u2014has a new book out today: Never Trust a Liberal Over 3\u2014Especially a Republican. As you&amp;amp;#x2019;d expect, the book attacks Liberal Republicans\u2014and all liberal, everything\u2014and delivers advice for conservatives in the next election cycles. We&amp;amp;#x2019;ll just let the book speak for itself\u2014here, the chapter titles in order from &amp;amp;#x201C;SERIOUSLYYYYY?? ^#&amp;amp;*@%$&amp;amp;.&amp;amp;#x201D; to &amp;amp;#x201C;Oh, Ann.&amp;amp;#x201D;\n\n Muslims: Why You&amp;amp;#x2019;re Barefoot in an Airport Right Now\n Immigration: Addressing America&amp;amp;#x2019;s Chronic Shortage of Fertile, Unskilled Illiterates\n &amp;amp;#x201C;Keeping Abortion Safe&amp;amp;#x201D; and Other Liberal Oxymorons\n Liberal Behavior: Porn Surfers, Liars, and Welfare Suppliers\n Slavery, the KKK, and the Trail of Tears\u2014I Give You the Democrat Party\n Democrats: They Can&amp;amp;#x2019;t Be Trained\u2014They Can Only Be Beaten\n Guns and Crime: Guns Do Kill People, Thank God\n If Chuck Schumer Is Smiling, Vote Nay!\u2014and Other Good Advice for Conservatives\n Media: Does Barack Obama Have Nude Polaroids of Everyone in the Mainstream Media?\n America&amp;amp;#x2019;s Enemies, Foreign and Democratic\n PC Police: Shoot First, Hug Later\n Liberals and Science: Regulate Al Gore&amp;amp;#x2019;s Refrigerator\n Courts: The Third Branch of Liberalism\n Higher Re-Education\n I have a Savior, and His Name&amp;amp;#x2019;s Not Obama\n Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of a Fellow Republican\u2014with the Following Exceptions\n Not Far from the Tree\n Will This Be on the Midterms?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n7. Watch these sports documentaries for answers. Schooled: The Price of College Sports does a great job at making you angry\u2014the EPIX documentary, which airs Wednesday, looks at the business of big-time college sports, namely basketball and football. The lesson: players are basically getting screwed. Hear from college athletes, advisors, historians, and others about how these sports rake in bank for the schools, coaches, and NCAA while the actual players go broke.\n\nOn November 25, 1980, a boxing match went down that would become one of the most talked-about bouts in the sport&amp;amp;#x2019;s history\u2014Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Dur&amp;amp;#xE1;n. Plenty of bad blood made the action that much more intense...and the ending that much more mystifying: Dur&amp;amp;#xC3;&amp;amp;#xA1;n turned to the referee during the eighth round and quit with the words, &amp;amp;#x201C;no m&amp;amp;#xE1;s&amp;amp;#x201D; (&amp;amp;#x201C;no more&amp;amp;#x201D; in Spanish). No M&amp;amp;#xC3;&amp;amp;#xA1;s finds out what happened and follows Leonard to Panama to meet up with his old rival for answers. Tune in to ESPN tomorrow night to check it out\u2014before then, check out how it went down.\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Ride the shockingly awesome sound waves of All Is Lost. Director J. C. Chandor returns this month with the epic, ambitious man-versus-sea adventure All Is Lost, starring Robert Redford and...a lot of water. The movie has, like, three words, and they&amp;amp;#x2019;re not all that memorable. What is: the staggering richness and texture of the ocean sounds. (I mean it. You&amp;amp;#x2019;ll leave the theater thinking this.) Here, sound designer Steve Boeddeker walks us through how he got them all.\u2014LAUREN BANS\n\n The Indian Ocean: &amp;amp;#x201C;We went out on the San Francisco Bay in a boat that was very similar to Redford&amp;amp;#x2019;s in the movie. But we had to watch out for certain things: If the wind sounded even remotely like it was blowing through trees in the distance, we couldn&amp;amp;#x2019;t use it. Or birds. In the movie, Redford is so far out, there are no birds.&amp;amp;#x201D;\n The Thunder: &amp;amp;#x201C;I had a recording from a long time ago taken during a storm in St. Louis. They get a lot of storms there that don&amp;amp;#x2019;t have rain. But the key was to have it be mostly subwoofer, so that it was really rocking. We tried to keep away from that clich\u00E9d whitewashed spray sound as much as possible.&amp;amp;#x201D;\n Diving Underwater: &amp;amp;#x201C;That was easy! I just turned off all the treble.&amp;amp;#x201D;\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterestcover of humans of new york.jpeg\n\n9. Stare at strangers. Humans of New York was born out of an idea to create a photographic census of New York City in 2010\u2014today, it continues to be one of our favorite photo-blogs. The images\u2014accompanied by captions that document photographer Brandon Stanton&amp;amp;#x2019;s interaction with the subject\u2014are colorful and insightful, sometimes haunting, always beautiful. Stanton has assembled a collection of his photographs for his new book, Humans of New York, out tomorrow. Here, Stanton shares with us one of his favorite shots from the book.\n\nFacebookPinterestfavorite photo for humansofnewyork.jpeg\n\n&amp;amp;#x201C;This photo really sticks out in my mind because out of the thousands of conversations I've had, it was probably the most emotional I've ever gotten on the street. It was pouring down rain, and I noticed this old woman walking toward me with this very colorful umbrella. I took her photo, then huddled under the umbrella for a conversation. When I asked her for a piece of advice, she said: \"I'll tell you what my husband told me right before he died. I asked him: &amp;amp;#x2018;Moe, how am I supposed to live without you?&amp;amp;#x2019; He told me: &amp;amp;#x2018;Take the love you have for me, and spread it around.&amp;amp;#x2019;\"\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n10. Call Carrie&amp;amp;#x2019;s mom. The Carrie remake is out on Friday, starring Chlo&amp;amp;#xEB; Grace Moretz as Carrie and Julianne Moore as the awesomely crazy mom. To promote the horror flick, the studio released a &amp;amp;#x201C;CARRIE BUCKETS OF BLOOD iPhone App&amp;amp;#x201D; through which you can make personalized gifs of the prom scene because, #kidsthesedays. The best part of the app though is the option to &amp;amp;#x201C;call Carrie,&amp;amp;#x201D; which dials up a hotline that plays an automated recording in which you hear Moore throw Carrie into a closet while saying, &amp;amp;#x201C;GO IN YOUR CLOSET AND PRAY. PRAY LITTLE GIRL. 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