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Last night’s episode brought us into hour 4.5 of the “Sophia Watch.” In the history of drawn-out subplots, this one’s slowly making its way to the top of the pile. But the hunt for the missing girl finally spun off another decent storyline, albeit one that was resolved entirely too soon.
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, finish playing that fortuitously instructive board game with your ersatz family and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire. As I’ve mentioned in these reviews before, Boardwalk Empire is a tale of three generations: Jimmy Darmody’s, which fought the Great War; the Commodore’s, which came of age around or just [...]
R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills spoke to TIME about why he never wanted to sing lead and what he thinks is the band’s best song.
His new one-man show is a rare musical in a fall season filled with earnest dramas. A look at this fall’s hits, misses and the in-between.
The Greek epic earned $32 million its first weekend, but Modern Warfare 3 did $400 million its first day—so who’s the champion of the young-male demographic?
Once a week, we will recap the most interesting news in book publishing. This time around, Ma Kardashian hits the bestseller list and Song of Achilles gets an early rave.
It’s been a little more than a month since the fourth season finale of Breaking Bad and I still can’t get this song out of my head.
In last week’s TIME, I took an early look at TLC’s new reality series, All-American Muslim, debuting Sunday night; I also blogged about it earlier here at Tuned In. Here’s one more reminder to catch this deeply intriguing, uncharacteristically thoughtful reality series about five Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan. Over at TheAtlantic.com, Alyssa Rosenberg has [...]
Who still has the patience for that all too-familiar cinematic hero, the guy who gets out of prison vowing never to return to a life of crime and then immediately gets sucked back in by some paternalistic gangster?
One of the very first articles I wrote for TIME magazine was about CBS trying to relaunch its low-rated morning show, The Early Show, with a new anchor team. It hired Bryant Gumbel (remember him?) and Jane Clayson (remember her?) and plopped them in a voguish glass-walled studio (remember those?). And then—not much. The Early [...]
Fresh off his freeze-tastic performance in the GOP Presidential debate Wednesday night, Rick Perry showed up on Late Show with David Letterman to try to turn embarrassment into embarrassment-ade, reading a list of top 10 excuses for his onstage forgetfulness. Did Perry help himself out? The minimum standard for an appearance like this is that [...]
From movies about nuclear holocaust to films of flesh-eating zombies, here is a selection that may help prepare you for the end of the world
Tarsem Singh’s myth-illogical epic offers a feast for the eye, scraps for the mind
You knew Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill was going to be terrible. So we suggest you check out any of these gender-bending roles.
The thinking seems pretty clear: the Academy doesn’t want two problems in the same year, and Bob Hope’s dead, so it’s going with the known-est of known quantities.
There will be two live-action Snow White movies next year. One starring Julia Roberts (titled Mirror Mirror) and this one, Snow White and the Huntsman. Starring Twilight’s Kristen Stewart as the title character, Thor himself (Chris Hemsworth) as the Huntsman and Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen, it looks oddly similar to a Lord of [...]
We can’t say that this is the worst Adam Sandler movie ever made, but that’s only because we missed ‘Grown Ups’
The director, banned at Cannes for a Nazi joke, is dead serious in this ravishing, troubling, borderline-brilliant vision of life on a doomed planet—ours
Mountain man Liam Neeson battles a lupine conspiracy in this fitfully engrossing but logorrheic thriller
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
Alexander Payne's tale of a grieving Honolulu husband has been touted as Oscar bait but it's closer to Hawaii Five-No
As the television star turns 90, TIME takes a look at her storied and hilarious career.
Ben takes the women fly fishing, which is totally not a metaphor for the show as a whole.
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 |
Chandor spoke to TIME about what one has to do to get nominated for an Oscar and his film's unique release strategy.
