Happy Independence Day! I hope it's not raining wherever you are, and that you're reading this while taking a leisurely dip in a pool, awaiting your neighborhood's fireworks. Don't ruin your computer, though! Be careful! To entertain you either before or after the big night, we have Rolling Stone's favorite American indie films, Facebook's emotion-manipulating experiment, and a day with Comedy Central's Nathan Fielder. Let's go!

• This week, Rolling Stone put together a list of the 30 greatest American indie films, featuring Sherman's March, Funny Ha Ha, and She's Gotta Have It. Is your favorite in the list? (I'm asking you right now.) (Yes or no?) (Hello?!)
   
• Throughout this week, you may have seen just about everyone you know share something on some form of social media about Facebook's emotion-manipulating experiment. To help get your head around it, here's Wired with everything you need to know.
   
• "In Age of Extinction, the plot is a losing Cards Against Humanity hand and the people are stick figures, but the machines are astoundingly detailed, with thousands of articulated parts that move at incomprehensible speeds. 'I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime,' Bay famously said once, but this one feels like it’s aimed at a future generation of children who’ll be born with hypersensitive compound eyes, like fruit flies or horseshoe crabs." Grantland’s Alex Pappademas wrote about what he calls "the year of the self-loathing summer movie."
   
• "Why Are All the Cartoon Mothers Dead?"
   
• Nick Cannon hinted in an interview this week that he might play Richard Pryor in Lee Daniels's Pryor biopic, though previously there were rumors that Michael B. Jordan or Eddie Murphy might take the role. 
   
• "How the 'PayPal Mafia' redefined success in Silicon Valley"
   
• For Indiewire, Paula Bernstein interviewed Barry Freeman and Howard Fridkin, two former MPAA raters who have started Film Ratings Advisors, a consulting company that helps filmmakers "get the rating they want without sacrificing their film's integrity."
   
• "Well, I've always been interested in the Hollywood history. Basically, that is my interest. And then I've always made silent films with music for accompaniment." Harmony Korine interviewed Kenneth Anger for Interview.
   
• BBC1 officially announced Sherlock's fourth season this week, which will begin with a one-off special. Yay!

"Miss me?" #Sherlock, the hit @BBCOne drama, will return for a Special, followed by a series of three new episodes. #221back

— BBC One (@BBCOne) July 2, 2014

• Midnight Rider filmmakers Randall Miller, Jody Savin, and Jay Sedrish were charged with involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass this week in the death of 27-year-old camera assistant Sarah Elizabeth Jones. 
   
• Indiewire put together a list of their worst and most disappointing movies of 2014 so far, featuring A Million Ways to Die in the West, Dom Hemingway, and Only Lovers Left Alive. Did your least favorite or biggest disappointment make the list? (Hello?!)
   
• "I’ve always wanted to do it just for the family – not for broadcast or anything, for family and close friends, whoever, who just wanted to see it." Liz Jobey spoke to Robert De Niro about Robert De Niro Sr.
• The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes spilled some juicy Notebook gossip this week in an interview with VH1, claiming that Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams had a mutual on-set hatred of each other the whole time. Our love babies! 
   
• For The Dissolve, Keith Phipps wrote about the "straight-faced lunacy" of Airplane!
   
• "The second pass is to give better form to your App Store mandala. Your fog of idea is now cast in harsh binary. Somewhat less mutable. Edges. A messy dream splashed clean with ice cold water. We’re awake. Now the fun." Craig Mod on how apps are made.
   
• Entertainment executive Michael Eisner and House of Cards screenwriter Beau Willimon spoke about how writers and directors can more easily get away with graphic content and villainous characters than ever before, in conversation for The Atlantic.
   
• "I benefit from the fact that when I tell people I’m a comedian, they’re surprised." Grantland writer Mike Powell spent some time with Nathan Fielder ahead of the premiere of the new season of his incredible Comedy Central show, Nathan for You.
   
• And finally, because it's Independence Day weekend: Independence Day recreated by pug puppies, in under two minutes.