We have a champion! Dancing with the Stars picked a new winner last night. After weeks of winnowing the herd, only three “stars” remained. But much like Highlander, there can be only one.
Prosthetic Chins and the Bible: Kenneth Branagh on Becoming Sir Laurence Olivier
The actor talks to TIME about what it was like to play the towering star in My Week With Marilyn
Stop Moping, Muppets. Of Course We Want You Back
The giddy goof-fest The Muppets is a Disney production, but actor Jason Segel, who was born in 1980, is the person most responsible for bringing Jim Henson’s puppets back to the big screen. He shares credit for the screenplay …
Hugo: Scorsese’s Magnificent Dream Machine
Turning from violent men to a poignant waif, the director pays luminous tribute to old films—in his best new film of the millennium
A Dangerous Method: Freud Had the Theories, But Jung Had the Sex
Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley fall into a mad passion in David Cronenberg’s what-if film about the first analyst to have an affair with his patient
Kate Bush Explores Nature on 50 Words For Snow
Using winter as her backdrop, Bush delivers a sparse, beautiful and ultimately pure album
Arthur Christmas: Santa Goes Corporate
If you love Wallace & Gromit, the series of shorts that established Aardman as the wittiest people to ever play with clay, then Arthur Christmas may seem a disconcertingly different animal.
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Poll: Fox News Viewers Less Informed (Except About the Nutritional Value of Pepper Spray)
So here’s a finding that may or may not surprise you: a Fairleigh Dickinson University poll of New Jersey residents found that Fox News viewers were less well-informed about current events than respondents who watched no news at all. Our public discourse being the predictable thing it is, this means it’s time to debunk the poll and/or …
The Artist: A ‘Silent’ Film to Sing About
This tribute to Old Hollywood is being touted as a potential Oscar-winner. But it is better than that: a zesty romance to leave audiences glowing.
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A Second Look At: Terra Nova
For half its first season, Terra Nova has felt like a series that was actively fighting against its most interesting qualities. You had a civilization starting from the wilderness to save humanity from extinction. You had a group …
House Watch: The Double-Your-Pleasure Edition
Not one but two patients this week on House M.D. And House climbs into the back of a police cruiser once again. More below, but first a spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen “Dead and Buried,” snap up your Akubra hat and watch …
Dancing with the Stars: Season Thirteen’s Final Performances
Last night on Dancing with the Stars, the three finalists pulled out all the stops to impress America in the hopes of winning the coveted Mirror Ball trophy. Ricki Lake, Rob Kardashian and J.R. Martinez each performed two dances, …
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Top 10 Movie Shrinks
As ‘A Dangerous Method’ offers revealing portraits of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, TIME sets up appointments with 10 of cinema’s most memorable psychiatrists and therapists.