+Review Movies | 112 days ago

Real Steel Review: Babes in Mad Max Land

By Mary Pols
Everett

Despite the presence of Hugh Jackman, this futurist drama gets mired in ‘bot-dom, which leads to boredom

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Tuned In+Television | 112 days ago

The Morning After: Straight Outta Eagleton

By James Poniewozik
NBC

Last night’s Parks and Recreation, “Born and Raised”—in which Leslie Knope encountered the Pawnee version of birtherism—was the strongest yet of the new-season episodes and one that gives me great hope for what it can do with her campaign storyline

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 113 days ago

The Morning After: The Fast Food and the Furious

By James Poniewozik

Quick spoilers for last night’s return of South Park below: Some last-minute deadlines prevent me from giving the longer writeup I was hoping to “Ass Burgers,” which resolved the sort-of-cliffhanger from the midseason finale. I found a lot to like in the episode, like the topical spoof of vaccine paranoia. (Even the semi-insensitive representation of [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 113 days ago

Women Watch TV Like This, But Men Watch TV Like This

By James Poniewozik

Over at ThinkProgress, critic Alyssa Rosenberg (whom you should be reading if you aren’t already), has a thought-provoking post on all the new fall shows with female stars, and whether or not  those shows are actually speaking to a female audience. “This was supposed to be a great fall for women on television, but several [...]

+Review Movies | 114 days ago

The Ides of March: Ladies and Gentlemen, President George Clooney

By Richard Corliss
Everett

The crinkly liberal icon stars with Ryan Gosling in a savory, skeptical drama about political dreams and how to shatter them

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 114 days ago

RIP Steve Jobs: He Let Us Inside the Media

By James Poniewozik

I spend most of any waking weekday inside Steve Jobs’ idea. I wake up to an alarm clock set by my iPhone, which is docked to it. I get up and go for a run, listening to my iPod Nano on shuffle. Back home I get dressed, listening to NPR (iPhone app). Breakfast time and [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 114 days ago

TV Tonight: George Harrison: Living in the Material World

By James Poniewozik

Elsewhere at time.com, TIME film critic Richard Corliss reviews Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison documentary, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, which airs in two parts on HBO tonight and tomorrow: The “quiet Beatle” — the one who told an interviewer, “I’m even more normal than normal people” — was also the nicest Beatle: the [...]

+Review Movies | 114 days ago

Scorsese’s George Harrison Doc: Within Him Without Him

By Richard Corliss
HBO

Living in the Material World is a fitting, sonorous tribute to the pop idol, movie producer, spiritual searcher and constant gardener

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 114 days ago

It's All About the D'Oh: Is This the Way The Simpsons Should End?

By James Poniewozik

The TV news-o-sphere has been buzzing for the last day or so about reports that Fox has threatened to stop producing new episodes of The Simpsons if its voice actors do not accept a substantial—as in, nearly by half—pay cut. Considering that the show has been one of TV’s biggest successes since it began life [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 114 days ago

A.C. Nielsen, Godfather of TV Ratings, Dead at 92

By James Poniewozik

Some might say that TV is too much a business of bean counters, but Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., who died Monday, was perhaps the most culturally influential bean counter of them all. Because, after all, the beans whose counting he revolutionized were all of us. TV is a commercial business, and shows (excepting public TV) [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 114 days ago

Glee Watch: Gotta Dance!

By James Poniewozik

In my review that posted earlier this morning, I neglected to mention one of the biggest reasons to root for the success of American Horror Story. It could give Ryan Murphy a full-time distraction, so that the new team of writers can get Glee under control, free from the need to throw in more and [...]

+TV Recap Dancing with the Stars: Season 13, Episode 6 | 114 days ago

Dancing with the Stars Results, Week Three: Kristin Cavallari Gets a Reality Check

By Melissa Locker
ABC

Welcome to TIME’s Dancing with the Stars recap, where we’ve barely dried our eyes from Monday night’s weepathon.

+Books | 114 days ago

Q&A with Palin Advisor-Turned-Novelist Nicolle Wallace

By Claire Suddath
Joe Corrigan / Getty Images

Nicolle Wallace knows politics. Her new novel, It’s Classified, explores what would happen if a woman plucked from relative obscurity became Vice President of the United States

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 114 days ago

TV Tonight: American Horror Story

By James Poniewozik

Friends, I am not here today to argue that American Horror Story is, if I may use a critical-theory term, “good.” At least if one judges it by such factors as coherence, consistency or plausibility of characters’ motivations. The new series (FX, Wednesdays) comes from producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Like their current show, [...]

+Photos Movies | 115 days ago

On Set With Audrey Hepburn

By Jared T. Miller
Attention To Detail

A behind-the-scenes look at the star of Breakfast At Tiffany’s fifty years after the release of the actress’ most famous film

+Photos Music | 115 days ago

When We Was Fab: George Harrison

By TIME PHOTO DEPT.
Terry O'Neill / Getty Images

George Harrison died ten years ago today. TIME takes a look at the quiet, peaceful Beatle.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 115 days ago

The Rabbit Done Died: NBC Kills Playboy Club, Adds Brian Williams

By James Poniewozik

As the 2011-12 TV season begins its third week, it has claimed its first victim: NBC’s The Playboy Club, whose ratings plunged as low as its necklines, has been cancelled. Playboy was one of the most hyped new fall shows this year, though the attention was hardly all positive; Gloria Steinem, some local affiliates and [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 115 days ago

Elsewhere on Time.com: Dancing Every Week

By James Poniewozik

As I like to say, there’s one thing you have to give TV credit for: there’s a lot of TV on it. Too much for me to review, or even acknowledge, as one man with one blog. But if you have not noticed, my colleagues at Time.com’s NewsFeed have been beefing up their weekly TV [...]