It takes a while, but the new Pixar movie about a Scottish princess reveals its grand artistry and a Brave heart
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Why Didn’t Morning TV Love Ann Curry?
Maybe Ann Curry and Conan O’Brien should get together for a drink sometime. For a long while, she was second banana on NBC’s Today show, where she had read the news since the late ’90s. After Katie Couric left the program, her …
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Four-score and Seven Corpses
A moribund version of Seth Grahame-Smith’s mashup novel springs to life only when Abe is railsplitting the undead
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Dead Tree Alert: Blowhardball: The Not-So-Special Comment of HBO’s The Newsroom
Sunday night, HBO premieres The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s attempt to do for cable news what The West Wing did for politics: present a romanticized version of a beleaguered institution, with a cast of hard-working idealists, long …
Remembering Andrew Sarris: A Great American Film Critic
He changed the way people look at movies. He wrote the most influential book on American films. He was a mentor and a friend. He is irreplaceable.
Is Seth MacFarlane Getting Serious?
As serious as spandex, apparently
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: Love in the Ruins
Writer/director Lorene Scafaria makes a comic apocalyptic film. It’s Melancholia-lite, with elements of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. And it works
To Rome with Love: Woody’s Roman Holiday
Not up to the standard set by Midnight in Paris, Allen’s ensemble wanders all over the place, like a tourist without a map. Thank goodness for Alec Baldwin
Benjamin Walker on Becoming an Axe-Wielding President in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“If you wanted to compare him to a superhero, I guess you’d have to compare him to Batman”
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Digital “Freeloaders”: Paying for the Pipes, But Not the Piper
Should audiences have to pay for digital entertainment? Is it really true that they’re not willing to? Though it’s nominally about music, the controversy that has blown up around an NPR blog post—in which a 20-year-old intern …
The Invisible War: When Soldiers Rape Soldiers
Women victimized by sexual abuse speak out in a poignant, powerful documentary that just might change the system
Today’s Trailer: Twilight: Breaking Dawn—Part 2
Edward Cullen’s family is in danger? What a surprise
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Test Pilot: Nashville
Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next season’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that …