First Take: 'Where the Wild Things Are'

SPIN's Phoebe Reilly on the loveable moments and enduring lessons of Spike Jonze's adaptation, in theaters now.

It was a weekend of wild things, particularly of the lupine variety: unfit parents in Colorado cried wolf, SNL guest Shakira howled like a wolf, and a movie about a boy dressed as a wolf opened in theaters nationwide. Had it not been for that balloon rumpus, the latter would have easily been the most captivating spectacle.

Listening In: Jesse Eisenberg

Musical-theater enthusiast Jesse Eisenberg, costar of this month's zom-com Zombieland, on the soundtrack to his life.
Jesse Eisenberg in <I>Zombieland</i>

What's the first rock album you owned?
My sister bought me Green Day's Dookie when I was 11 because, according to her, I was gay. I'd only listened to musical theater up until that point, so it was something of an intervention. It confused me. I couldn't figure out what Dookie was about. I realized later that not every album has to have a plot.

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Photos by Nick Haymes

Actor Eli Roth Reveals His Favorite Music

The Hostel writer/director and costar of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds on the soundtrack to his life.
Eli Roth with Brad Pitt in <I>Inglourious Basterds</I>

What music were you obsessed with in high school?
Iron Maiden. When I was 13, I silk-screened an Iron Maiden Eddie on the back of my Repo Man and Clockwork Orange T-shirts. Even though I was really fat, I avoided getting beat up because the tough kids would pass me their jean jackets and be like, "Do Eddie from Number of the Beast."

Q&A: Aziz Ansari

The comic costar of NBC's Parks and Recreation and the film Funny People, on the soundtrack to his life.
Aziz Ansari

What was the first album you bought with your own money?
Vanilla Ice’s To the Extreme, but let’s not put it all on me. Plenty of people were into the Ice Man. It’s not like Vanilla Ice sold ten records, and I’m one of the ten people that bought it. We all got fooled. I just happened to be at the age when it was the first album I bought.

MTV Movie Awards: Samberg, K-Stew, Eminem, and More

SPIN's Phoebe Reilly riffs on the night's six most amusing -- and most appalling -- moments.
Andy Samberg and Kristen Stewart

In case you missed the MTV Movie Awards last night -- or only half-watched it, like I did -- here's our verdict on the night's hot topics:

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