Christopher Kompanek's posts

Everybody has to start somewhere. In Firsties, we talk to some of our favorite pop-culture figures about the many…

In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they…

As The Lonely Island, Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, and Jorma Taccone have made a career writing songs that parody…

Clive Owen has played many impeccably dressed yet morally flawed characters, beginning with Jack Manfred, the…

Over a four-decade career, Nick Cave has taken on a lot of roles besides the frontman of The Bad Seeds. He’s scored…

Australian pop star Kylie Minogue is best known for her chart-topping hits like “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” and…

French actress turned writer-director Julie Delpy has been crossing between the worlds of French and American cinema…

Dustin Lance Black is best known for writing politically charged biopics like Milk (which won him the Best Original…

Director Abel Ferrara doesn’t tend to hold his tongue. He’s best known for the blunt noir films King Of New York and …

Belgian directors and brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne may not be household names, but they are no strangers to…

Documentary filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky have been working on their Paradise Lost films for nearly 20…

From her breakout roles in Bend It Like Beckham and The Pirates Of The Caribbean onward, Keira Knightley has exuded…

Ryan Gosling has made a name for himself playing characters who live on the fringes of society: his breakout role as…

Creed Bratton is best known as the endearingly creepy paper salesman at Dunder Mifflin on The Office, but with the…

Director Michael Winterbottom first worked with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon nearly a decade ago in 24 Hour Party…

Drifting between documentary and narrative forms, Werner Herzog has made more than 50 films over the course of…

As a correspondent for The Daily Show, John Oliver uses a sincere, formal delivery to mask his comedic intentions.…

Bored To Death creator Jonathan Ames began writing novels more than two decades ago, publishing his first, I Pass…

On his fourth album, Harlem River Blues, Earle turns his focus from rural backwaters to the Big Apple, where he…

Since her breakout role as Patrick Fugit’s older sister in 2000’s Almost Famous, Zooey Deschanel has carved out a…