Hey guys, guess what? TIME is now on Spotify!
My colleagues and I will soon be posting regular playlists to the music platform, but we thought we’d kick things off in style with an inaugural playlist based on TIME’s 100 Best Songs of All-Time.
TIME Recommends: The Trotsky
Who says young people aren’t politically motivated? From New York to Oakland, the men and women of the Occupy movement have put their comfort and their safety on the line to demand, um, a whole lot of things. Which underscores …
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Regis Signs Off
Regis Philbin, the most televised man in history, ends a run of affable irascibility this morning as he airs his last Live with Regis and Kelly. A few years ago, when he was about to debut as host of America’s Got Talent, I spent …
The Incredible Year of Michael Fassbender
In this week’s Holiday Movie Preview special in TIME, I profiled Michael Fassbender, who’s had an incredible year — playing Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, Magneto in X-Men: First Class, Carl Jung in David Cronenberg’s A …
Happy Feet Two: Mr. Miller’s Poppy Penguins Save Their Own Planet
In his effervescent sequel to the 2006 hit, director George Miller softens the eco-message and ups the pleasure ante for 97 mins. of 3-D delight
Today’s Movie Trailer: Titanic 3-D. Will Our Hearts Go On?
James Cameron’s 1997 classic will be re-released on April 6. Get ready to fall for Leonardo DiCaprio all over again.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part I. More like Breaking Yawn
The world’s most insipid young lovers, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), finally consummate their love in Breaking Dawn—Part 1, the fourth installment in the Twilight series. This is cause for …
Chelsea Handler: The Anti Oprah
In this week’s issue of TIME, Karl Taro Greenfeld profiles Chelsea Handler, who, he says, is “the final iteration of decades of salty female comics, from Phyllis Diller to Joan Rivers to Kathy Griffin to Sarah Silverman.”
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Up All Night, Modern Family and TV’s Feminism for Men
In last night’s Up All Night, stay-at-home dad Chris (Will Arnett) and wife Reagan (Christina Applegate) are looking for a part-time babysitter so Chris can get some time to himself. One of his first requirements: “I don’t want a …
Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan
Nearly a century apart, Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas and D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation contrast a sassy black family with a racist masterpiece
Jonah Hill Babysat My Two-Year Old Son
You know how people show you photos of their kids on their phone, and they get so wrapped up they forget what they were in the middle of talking about before their phone came out?
That’s what happened with my Jonah Hill …
Beware Bella’s Belly: The Top 9 Disturbing Movie Pregnancies
The new Twilight movie features a particularly gruesome birth scene. TIME takes a look at the nine (months, you know) most frightening film pregnancies.
The Incredible Gravity of Being Alejandro Escovedo
Ask Alejandro Escovedo how he is capable of leaping between so many musical modes — with intense performances that have him breaking hearts one minute, snapping guitar strings the next — and he often answers: “I have a good …