Amy Nicholson

*See also: Joss Whedon's The Avengers Grossed $1.5 Billion. His Next Film? A Shakespeare Play He Shot in His Backyard "I don't usually apologize for killing people," Joss Whedon says. But in The Avengers, when Whedon had horned villain Loki stab S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson, a good-hearted geek, fans were......

"Who are you?" pleads a doomed man as Benedict Cumberbatch looms into his first close-up in Star Trek Into Darkness. The answer is Khan. And that's not a spoiler — it's a selling point. A less secretive director would trumpet that his $185 million movie stars Star Trek's greatest villain,......

In 1972, the year after their first self-titled comedy album, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong played the Berkeley Community Theater with jazz-fusion group the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Forty summers later, in 2012, the duo performed at the Gathering of the Juggalos alongside acts like Insane Clown Posse, Twiztid and Blaze Ya......

Steve Jobs will be directed by Aaron Sorkin. Jobs stars Ashton Kutcher. But this year's third Steve Jobs bio­pic, Funny or Die's iSteve, has its own advantage: It's first. On April 15, audiences can watch the hour-plus feature on Funny or Die's website, while Sorkin continues to cast his lead......

Tattoo Nation documentarian Eric Schwartz isn't inked himself — "I'm nicknamed 'The Virgin,' " he admits — but when he started photographing tattoo conventions, he stumbled across an untold, half-century history of color and style inextricably linked to California. Unlike the permanent art they've created, these tattoo artists and their clients......