Too Many Stars, Not Enough Sky?

Something of a cri de couer over the weekend by Hugh Pearman in The Sunday Times of London, registering his exasperation over the global frenzy to commission buildings by the familiar roster of architecture stars. I disagree, but I lived through the ’80s and ’90s in New York, when much was built and almost all [...]

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Test Pilot: K-Ville

FOX Test Pilot is a semiregular feature this summer sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots may be rewritten, recast and reshot before airing, and end up much better or worse. But, premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so let’s get on with… [...]

80 Years of Robots in Hollywood

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Movies robots aren’t just mindless automatons. They can often be metal marvels with their own charismatic personalities. TIME looks at cinema’s long tradition of smart silver screen machines.

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Big Love Watch: Help Me, Rhonda

HBO Big Love is on a tear right now; while this episode didn’t quite match last week’s, it was again one of my favorites yet. It feels like the first season was just a prologue to this one–the show spent some slow time building its wide web of relationships, and we’re now seeing that pay [...]