Rihanna’s new music video is simultaneously depressing and uplifting.
PopulistMovies
Top 10 Movie Swordsmen
The latest Three Musketeers film hits theaters this weekend. TIME looks back at cinema’s best swashbucklers, samurai and swordsmen/women.
The Police Academy Guy Who Does The Sounds Covers Led Zeppelin
Sgt. Larvelle “Motor Mouth” Jones from the Police Academy movies really knows how to rock
R.E.M. Says Goodbye With Its Last Single
There’s always been a strange comfort in Michael Stipe’s grizzled, slightly nasal voice. Though I’ve never counted R.E.M. among my favorite bands, he’s managed to permanently lodge himself in some part of my brain.
He’s so …
Tuned InTelevision
The Morning After: X, Men
With Tuned In having been folded into TIME Entertainment, I’ve been trying to decide which of the old blog features do and don’t work in the new format—among them, The Morning After open-discussion posts for last night’s TV. But because I like having that option—and don’t have the time right now to post at more length—let’s give it …
Tuned InTelevision
I Let My Babies Watch TV. And I Regret Nothing!
On Tuesday, the American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirmed a longstanding statement that children under the age of two should not watch television. This is not exactly a new position. Doctors and development experts have urged parents to keep young children away from screens for years. And the AAP itself made much the same statement about …
Dancing with the Stars Week 5 Results: Carson Kressley Has
to Go Go
On last night’s Dancing with the Stars, the Queer Eye guy goes bye-bye.
Paranormal Activity 3: Three’s a Shroud
The third in the haunted-house thriller series meets the standard set by the original: less gore, more scare
Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy
I didn’t read Claire Tomalin’s Charles Dickens: A Life because I’m a Dickens guy. I’m not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was …
Presenting TIME’s New iPad App: Populist
In 2005, TIME launched the first of a series of comprehensive culture lists: The 100 Greatest Movies of All-TIME. Compiled by Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel, it named the best films—in our legendary critics’ very …
A Wonka Box Set and a NY Times Documentary
“Sooner or later,” the Canadian media baron Moses Znaimer said decades ago, “everything is on TV.” Now it’s all on DVD. Or do I mean Blu-ray? And how soon before discs will be as antediluvian as videotape and all media …
M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming: Pure Bedroom Pop
M83’s Anthony Gonzalez has finally done what so many artists have tried but failed to do: make a pure pop record for the bedroom floor.
Batman: Arkham City—A Knight to Remember
In the same way that Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight was a follow-up that expertly improved upon an already solid original, so too does Arkham City build a richer and more satisfying experience on the sturdy foundation of …