With its eighth-season premiere on Monday night, House M.D. graduated into an elite status of TV dramas that survive beyond seven years. Among the others are Law & Order, E.R. and C.S.I. — all of them procedurals.
Music Monday: The Quiet Melodies of Feist’s ‘Metals’
Four years ago, Leslie Feist—who performs under her last name—released The Reminder. Its hit single “1234” (remember the whimsical music video that accompanied it?) became so pervasive that the snippet used in Apple’s iPod …
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The Morning After: Return Flight?
Busy, busy, busy! As I mentioned in my Homeland post the other day, Sunday is quite the crowded viewing/blogging night for me right now, what with Breaking Bad wrapping up, Boardwalk Empire back in the regular rotation, and The Good Wife, Homeland and The Amazing Race, among other shows, competing for DVR space and time. In the …
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: Jail Baiting
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, put down that copy of Tom Sawyer—or David Copperfield, or whatever—and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
Two men begin this episode of Boardwalk Empire, “Ourselves Alone,” in …
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Breaking Bad Watch: Up On a Roof
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather up the family and some of your closest armed guards and watch last night’s Breaking Bad.
When I take notes on any show I’m reviewing, I like to include little side …
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Arrested Development to Definitely Possibly Happen Again
As surely as there is always money in the banana stand, there is always eternal optimism—encouraged by remarks by Arrested Development principals every half year or so—that the cast members of the show will reunite again and make the much-rumored Arrested Development movie. Sunday at the New Yorker Festival in New York City, …
Box Office: Surprise! Dolphins and Jesus Beat Cancer and Dead Kids
Parents drove their kids to see family films this weekend, turning the other new movies into roadkill. Audiences had no sixth sense for the Shyamalanish Dream House and 50/50 couldn’t bring moviegoers to its bedside.
Top 10 Haunted-House Movies
Why do these people always stay?!? As Paranormal Activity 3 hits theaters, TIME takes a look at at the best of its brethren.
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TV Weekend: The Bootleg Empire of Ken Burns’ Prohibition
There may be nothing more gratifying and unifying for people than coming together in disdain for a past idea, now universally agreed on to be stupid. One of the greatest of these in American history is alcohol prohibition, not merely the impetus for the criminal events of Boardwalk Empire, but the case study for the idea that the best …
Dream House: You Wouldn’t Want to Live There
Director Jim Sheridan is just going through the motions in this misfiring psychodrama
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Dead Tree Alert: The Post-Post-9/11 Drama of Homeland
This week in the print edition of TIME, I review what was pretty easily my favorite new series of the fall, Showtime’s Homeland, starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis and debuting Sunday night. It’s subscription-required, as …
Are You There, Audiences? It’s Me, Margaret
Anna Paquin is spectacular in Kenneth Lonergan’s long-delayed follow-up to You Can Count On Me
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 50/50: Cancer Lite
This comedy doesn’t live up to its killer premise and affecting backstory, despite the lead actor’s beautifully judged performance