-
Movie Reviews
The Grey: Wolves Near a Plane
Mountain man Liam Neeson battles a lupine conspiracy in this fitfully engrossing but logorrheic thriller
-
Populist
Top 10 Oscar-Nomination Snubs
The list of movie greats who never won an Academy Award is long and sad, but there are significant artists and pictures eliminated from contention before Oscar races even begin. Here are 10 classics the Academy ignored
-
Oscar Nominated Films
The Descendants: George Clooney's Tragedy in Paradise
Alexander Payne's tale of a grieving Honolulu husband has been touted as Oscar bait but it's closer to Hawaii Five-No
-
Photos
Happy Birthday Betty White: The Last Golden Girl Turns 90
As the television star turns 90, TIME takes a look at her storied and hilarious career.
More Galleries
-
TV Recaps
The Bachelor Watch: Fishing For Love
Ben takes the women fly fishing, which is totally not a metaphor for the show as a whole.
-
Box Office Report
Underworld Overachieves, Red Tails Flies High and Haywire Gets KO'd
As Kate Beckinsale vamps her way to the top of the weekend charts, Haywire's Mixed Martial Arts pinup Gina gets pinned...
1 Underworld Awakening $25.4M 2 Red Tails $19.1M 3 Contraband $14.2M 4 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close $10.5M 5 Haywire $9M -
-
Q&As
Margin Call Director J.C. Chandor on VOD and the Awards Season Hustle
Chandor spoke to TIME about what one has to do to get nominated for an Oscar and his film's unique release strategy.
-
Fess Parker, star of numerous Disney movies (Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier)—and TV’s Daniel Boone—has died at age 85. I’m a generation too young to have many firsthand memories of him (for some reason, I was never a fan of the old Disney movies as a kid), so most of my recollections of [...]
Going outside its current stable of reporters and anchors, ABC is hiring longtime CNN international reporter Christiane Amanpour to host the Sunday-morning This Week interview show vacated by George Stephanopoulos. TV Newser has the details; among them, that she’ll start in August, until which White House correspondent Jake Tapper (who’s been doing a strong job [...]
Can’t make it to Texas to see one of the 1,700 bands performing at the 2010 SXSW festival? You can console yourself with this list of the 10 most famous — and infamous — moments in music-festival history.
I realize that I have not really written about Human Target in this space yet. I don’t have a good excuse, but I have a reason: boredom. That is, the show hovers for me in some limbo between good and bad, neither good enough that I want to note it nor interestingly bad in any [...]
Yesterday, I got the ABC logline and press release for next week’s Richard Alpert-centric episode of Lost. (SPOILER ALERT: Richard “faces a difficult choice.” I really hope that didn’t blow the whole series for you.) What interested me most was the title, “Ab Aeterno.” Which made me think: Oh, yeah—Latin. What was up with the [...]
Alex Chilton, a great American songwriter, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack in New Orleans, at age 59. First with The Box Tops but most importantly with the Memphis band Big Star, Chilton all but invented American power-pop, even if most people will know him more by the bands he influenced than by his [...]
Spoilers for last night’s American Idol final-twelve elimination last night:
In your late-night update for the week: * Two weeks into his restoration, Jay Leno is still leading David Letterman in the ratings, albeit with fewer viewers than when he left the Tonight Show. * Dave, meanwhile, had fellow Leno-basher Jimmy Kimmel on his own show (above) to fondly reminisce about the Jaypocalypse. * And [...]
Here’s what your favorite political obsessive is going to be doing today, now that Rep. Dennis Kucinich has already had his minute in the spotlight announcing his support of the health-care bill: poring through the C-SPAN Video Library, a collection of every video on the public affairs network since 1987. The database is massive and [...]
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get a beer, heat up a TV dinner, soak in a little bit of the homespun wisdom of Michael Landon, then watch last night’s Lost.
Last night, the final twelve contestants on American Idol performed the music of the Rolling Stones. Did they start you up? Did they give you satisfaction? Click on the pictures for one TV critic’s individual (and definitely non-music-expert) reviews:
Two decades after she was a Golden Girl, Betty White has managed to become TV’s It Girl. First she got a (prescient) career achievement award from the Television Critics Association and a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild. Then the 88-year-old landed in one of the best Super Bowl ads (above) this year, [...]
The first thing you need to know about Jessica Simpson’s The Price of Beauty is that it contains a possessive, not a contraction. It is a show called The Price of Beauty that stars Jessica Simpson. The title is not telling us that Jessica Simpson Is The Price of Beauty. But in a way both [...]
American Idol‘s final 12 kick off the finals tonight with the music of The Rolling Stones (look for my picture-gallery reviews to post overnight), and somewhere Tyler Grady is cursing fate that he never got the chance to properly show off his Jagger strut. The choice of artist means that, as sure as the sun [...]
Tonight FX debuts Justified, its Elmore Leonard-based US marshal drama starring Timothy Olyphant. I liked what I’ve seen a lot, and my review ran long enough ago that I figured I should point you to it again: It seems like TV networks have been talking about remaking the western for longer than they actually made [...]
Just caught up on How to Make It in America, the first episode to air since the review copies HBO sent me. In my review, I, like most critics I’ve seen compared the series to Entourage (with which it shares a producer). The makers of the show have resisted the comparison, though it’s meant as [...]
A moment of silence, please. A decade late, the Tuned In home office has entered the 21st century, with the adoption of a flat-panel HD screen. To make room, I have finally decommissioned my last cathode-ray tube set and, along with it, my last operating VHS tape deck. For a little historical perspective, back when [...]
