Have you seen the trailer for Pixar’s new movie, Brave? The animation studio’s new film follows a young Scottish girl who wants to be a warrior but whose family tries to force her into becoming a demure, ladylike maiden. On …
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The Morning After: Light the Foos
For the past few years, I’ve been doing a year-end list of 10 best episodes as well as 10 best TV series. I resisted doing the episodes list at first, because I’m lazy and because there’s too much out there for me to pretend my …
Top 10 Least Sexy Sex-Filled Movies
“F— you. We've been in your living room. We were at your birth. You filmed it for us and showed us the placenta and now you want some privacy?”
Year-End Awards: National Board of Review Says ‘We Go with Hugo‘
America’s most venerable movie group also cites The Descendants, Dragon Tattoo, Harry Potter and virtually every other film but Your Highness
Grammy Nominations: Who Got Snubbed? Who Didn’t?
Maybe Beyonce will have to pull a Kanye at this year’s Grammy Awards.
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Mitt Romney’s Toughest Crowd… Fox News?
In this week’s print TIME, Joe Klein has a cover story on Mitt Romney’s inability to close the deal with Republican primary voters. For months, the polling trendline has looked like this: Romney has been cruising flat on the moving sidewalk of his campaign, while watching Rick Perry, then Herman Cain, and now Newt Gingrich rise past him …
Today’s Movie Trailer: Disney’s John Carter
Walt Disney Pictures’ John Carter doesn’t premiere in theaters until March 2012, but that doesn’t mean that Disney won’t crank up the old buzz machine to get people talking about the interplanetary action flick.
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A Second Look At: American Horror Story
Ghost stories are not usually stories about ghosts. They’re stories with ghosts, stories around ghosts, stories in which ghosts figure. There might be an interesting backstory to the ghosts, but the story itself, generally, is …
Shame: Michael Fassbender’s Naked Launch
In a ferocious but remote performance as a Manhattan man addicted to sex, the Irish-German star reveals more than his acting skills
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HBO Signs David Milch and His New Partner, William Faulkner
HBO announced today that it signed a new contract with one of its favorite writers, David Milch, who created Deadwood, John from Cincinnati and various projects that never made air for the network, and whose horseracing drama Luck debuts next month. (A sneak preview will air Dec. 11.) In connection with the deal, the network has also …
Ex-FBI Agents Lash Out At Eastwood’s J. Edgar—Hoover Not Gay!
Clint Eastwood’s biopic of famed lawman J.Edgar Hoover is ruffling a few feathers among former FBI agents
Dragonsong: The Unforgettable Anne McCaffrey
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Anne McCaffrey died a week and a half ago, on November 21. I never met her — she lived in Ireland in a house called Dragonhold that she …