The year’s best coming-of-age film has slipped in just under the wire. Pariah, which opens this week with a limited release geared towards awards season, opens in a lesbian club where shy Brooklyn teenager Alike (Adepero Oduye) …
Top 10 Movie Trailers of 2011
Approved for appropriate audiences, we present the most entertaining movie trailers of 2011
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Vacation Robo-Post: The Worst TV Shows of 2011
At the end of the year, we pause to honor the accomplishments of the creative, talented individuals whose efforts fill our calendar with thrills and laughter. Which gets pretty boring after a while! So let’s end 2011 by …
From Rin Tin Tin to Snowy in Tintin: Hollywood’s Most Memorable Movie Dogs
Cameron Crowe: Hollywood’s Most Predictable DJ
Cameron Crowe makes uplifting movies about men (always men!) who follow their dreams — and fall in love in the process. They’re endearing, sweet films and they’re almost always set to a familiar selection of music that feels …
Mish Imp 4 Cruises on a Very Merry Day After Christmas
The box office sprang back to life on Boxing Day, with Tom Cruise’s action adventure and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse as the prime winners
United State of Pop 2011: Mashing Up the Year in Music
TIME’s Favorite Cultural Moments of 2011
Dear reader, you’re probably as exhausted as we are from this month’s onslaught of Top Ten lists. (Don’t worry, we have a couple more we’re rolling out later this week.) But those deal with the macro. Here’s a bit of the micro …
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Vacation Robo-Post: The 2011 Cincy Awards
Two years ago at Tuned In, I invented a new kind of TV award, or perhaps “award.” Like a lot of critics, I always list the best shows of the year, and the worst. But that inevitably leaves out a certain, often more …
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Generation X-Mas: The Rise of A Christmas Story
How an upstart film became a holiday icon for the post-boomer set.
The 12 CDs of Christmas
This article originally ran on December 22, 2006.
‘Tis the weekend before Christmas, and something like a hundred million Americans are heading to a place called home. They still call it that, though they’ve lived far away for …
Q&A: Charlie Brown Christmas Producer Lee Mendelson
This interview originally ran on December 25, 2010.
Lee Mendelson is a first-rate storyteller, which isn’t a surprise seeing as he’s been doing it for more than 50 years. An award-winning television producer, Mendelson is the …
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Programming Note: Dashing Through the Snow Edition
It’s that time of year, when the Tuned In family overpacks the Tuned Inmobile, heads out to the Tuned In homeland in Michigan, and prays that a blizzard does not immobilize New York City again just before we return. I’ll be away …