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Legendary Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami turns to the neon sprawl of Tokyo for Like Someone in Love, where his actors find some gentle insight. But the expat director retains something of the air of a wide-eyed tourist, which isn't always to the film's credit.

Military leaders are among those warning Congress of the consequences of the automatic spending cuts set to kick in at the beginning of March. But many on Capitol Hill seem resigned to the cuts taking place.

The potential Democratic Party contest between 89-year-old Sen. Frank Lautenberg and 43-year-old Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker had been shaping up to be a generational battle royale. Alas, it won't happen now that Lautenberg has announced that he won't run for re-election in 2014.

The vote makes the former Republican senator the first defense nominee to be filibustered.

Jonathan Coulton quizzes contestants on the lost verses of "If You're Happy and You Know It," in which the lyrics hint to certain things. The song should really be re-titled, "If You're An Inanimate Object And You Know It." Clap your hands.

Here at Ask Me Another, we're a little obsessed with this hit British series, if not for the hats alone. Dowager Countess-in-training Jonathan Coulton doles out these Downton-inspired clues about famous people with "royal" names.

You guessed it—this game involves palindromes! That's a word or phrase that's spelled the same forwards as it is backwards. Puzzle guru John Chaneski helps keep our contestants from being 'drab as a fool; aloof as a bard.

The Chilean political drama No is the first film from that country to be nominated for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award. The powerful, poignant film uses an unlikely main character to chart the surprising end of a dictator's reign.

The documentary Raising Adam Lanza seeks a more complete view of Nancy Lanza and her son, a young man who was described as smart and awkward as a teen — and who later killed 27 people in Newtown, Conn. The documentary is built on the work of PBS Frontline and The Hartford Courant.

The clock is ticking on the sequester. That's the Washington term for the across the board spending cuts that will take effect March 1st unless Congress acts to put them off.