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Spotify, Ayn Rand, and Leonardo DiCaprio, on this week's arts and culture podcast.

Supernatural trans-species PG-13 eroticism? In the first half of the last Twilight installment, Stephenie Meyer's already gothic saga loses what little restraint it had — and tips over into territory that's both absurd and, given the target audience, a little alarming.

Hunger director Steve McQueen and star Michael Fassbender reunite for a stylishly composed story about a sex addict and the sister whose own obsessions may be key to understanding his pathology.

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent-film icon (Jean Dujardin) is about to face a challenge with the arrival of talkies — while a young extra (Berenice Bejo) stands on the verge of stardom. (Recommended)

Daily Beast and Newsweek editor Tina Brown explores the work of newspaper columnists through readings that propose a new way of looking at the 2012 election and the scandal at Penn State.

Clips from newsreels, propaganda films and Hollywood spy dramas help flesh out a documentary about World War II double agent Juan Pujol Garcia, who sold secrets to the German high command — but was secretly working for the British.

A young orphan stumbles on a mystery while living in a Paris train station.

Michelle Williams tackles screen icon Marilyn Monroe in a movie about moviemaking — she's filming a comedy with Laurence Olivier, and it's not going well.

A recent parenting conversation about boys friendships featured moms and researcher Niobe Way, who finds that boys crave and value deep friendships with each other, but American ideas of masculinity make these bonds tougher to keep as boys grow older. Now two fathers and a young male weigh in on the research and discuss their own friendships.

Commentator Sarah Ventre says that the biggest problem with last week's Emmy Awards wasn't how lacking they were in cultural diversity, but how little she saw that problem discussed.