Three top comedy stars and the director of SNL’s funniest videos team up for a tired comedy with sci-fi elements. These guys can be so smart — where are their brains?
Ruby Sparks: (500) Days of Bummer
Designed to be this summer’s hot indie comedy, the latest from the duo that directed ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ woos but doesn’t seduce
Today’s Movie Trailer: Life of Pi
Yann Martel’s best-selling novel is the story of a boy who gets shipwrecked on a boat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker — sort of. Of course, there’s so much more to the story than that. It remains to be seen how Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee will handle the narrative, but if the first trailer is any indication, the movie …
Bourne Legacy Featurette Explains Links Between New Movie and Trilogy
The Bourne Legacy makes no claims to stand on its own, apart from the trilogy that gave this new movie, opening Aug. 10, any life at all. In fact, Universal studio executives want you to know all about the connection, hoping for …
I Hate This Book So Much: A Meditation
(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.)
I cannot stand this book I’m reading right now.
It’s a novel. It’s by a writer who is generally described as Great, but who I’ve …
TCA 2012: Palins, Monkey Join NBC Media Circus
When you have a successful lineup of acclaimed shows at the Television Critics Association, all you need to do to get attention is to bring out the talented stars and creators who made the shows. When your network is in a, er, “rebuilding year,” you haul out all the stunts you can.
At NBC’s “meet the stars” cocktail party, poolside at …
Zoe Kazan: Not a Dream, a Surprise
“I’m not manic, I’m not a pixie and I’m not a dream girl.”
The Next Batman: Is John Blake the New Bruce Wayne?
The end of Christopher Nolan’s final Batman movie hints at a new protector of Gotham City, but who is John Blake, really? Be warned: spoilers ahead for those who haven’t seen ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
Sherman Hemsley, Jeffersons Star, Dies at Age 74
Sherman Hemsley, the onetime stage actor who became a pop-culture fixture as dry-cleaning entrepreneur George Jefferson on All in the Family and The Jeffersons, has died at age 74.
As Norman Lear created him and Hemsley brought him to life, George was an example of how the same things that make sitcom characters outsized and hilarious …
TCAs 2012: NBC’s Monkey Business
NBC, in the past several years, has not had a lot of ratings success. But at least it had some respect. The Office was a hit, and then when it wasn’t a huge hit, it still received praise for performances like Steve Carell’s. …
Dark Knight Rises App Is a Musical Tour of Gotham City
Composer Hans Zimmer puts customized Batman sounds on your iPhone
The Dark Knight Rises Survives the Darkest Night in U.S. Movie History
While grieving over the Aurora killings, Americans still flocked to theaters, giving the finale to the Batman trilogy the all-time top opening gross of any 2-D film
Sugar’s Copper Blue Reissued: 20th Anniversary of Bob Mould’s Groundbreaking Album
1992’s album of the year hits stores again today. Here’s why it deserves another listen