Very Short List

You might not be surprised to find a magic wand hanging next to a hidden camera in a toy shop, but what about a real-life magician working at the C.I.A.? Back in the 1950s, the Agency did in fact employ ...

Are you looking for a movie with a bit of everything—love, sex, style, wit, thrills and mystery? Search no further than Pedro Almodóvar’s latest, Broken Embraces (in limited release 11/20).

Just weeks after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid made Robert Redford into a megastar in 1969, the actor turned up in a very different kind of picture—a documentary-style movie about a fearless skier with an all-consuming desire for Olympic gold. ...

We don’t like it when our computers get too smart (cough, Terminator movies). But even we can’t resist the charming Web site Let Them Sing it for You, which allows you to type in lyrics and have your computer sing them back to you .

Sure, it’s sometimes easier not to know how the proverbial sausage gets made, and finding out sure isn’t pretty. But the eye-opening, fascinating (and somewhat terrifying) documentary Food, ...

Ever wondered what would happen if Garfield were to meet Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus? Or if Beavis and Butt-head were left waiting for Godot? Probably not. But luckily comic-book artist R. ...

Sometimes even our most cynical selves (heavy with balloon-boy hoaxing) can’t help but be won over by sweetness. Such is the case with the charming and affecting video “One Love.”

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (in theaters 11/6) should come with a warning label: The film is often so harrowing and heartbreaking that it can be hard to watch. But you should—thanks ...

You may never have found Waldo, but it won’t take you long to discover Liu Bolin. This talented Chinese artist has taken blending in to a whole new level in these incredible photographs, in which he disappears, chameleonlike, into his surroundings.

For the less scientifically inclined among us, reading about nuclear reactors or 3-D modeling might seem daunting. So how about watching such topics instead? Wired has put together a collection of short ...

The mighty Internet has given us many shiny and intricate options for ultimate time-suckage. But the lo-fi, perfectly simple and perfectly fun The Virtual Piano proves that bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better.

When Chris Rock’s five-year-old daughter asked him why she didn’t have “good hair” (a.k.a. straight and silky), it motivated him to explore the role that hair plays in the self-esteem and pocketbooks of the black community. ...

From the thrills of his 2008 campaign to photos of his kids in the Oval Office to his chatty appearances on late-night television, President Obama sometimes seems as much a pal as president. And now, thanks ...