Moviegoers who caught Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol this weekend (in early release on 425 IMAX screens) were able to see: Tom Cruise run from a Kremlin bombing, Tom Cruise run from a Dubai sandstorm and Tom Cruise run down …
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Homeland Watch: Playing It Close to the Vest
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, stop watching that breaking-news alert about your dad and watch last night’s season finale of Homeland.
“I swore an oath to defend the United States of America against enemies both …
PopulistMusic
Top 10 Overplayed Holiday Songs
By Thanksgiving Day each year, more than 150 radio stations nationwide begin to broadcast Christmas music 24/7. TIME presents the most incessantly spun jingles.
Sherlock Holmes and The Chipmunks: When Sequels Are Weak-quels
The soft openings for two top franchises bring more bad news to Hollywood: now the industry can’t even bank on retreads
Galley Girl: Eric Weiner’s ‘Ikea God’ and a Pack of Publishing Old-Timers
Publishing reporter Andrea Sachs writes about the book industry here every weekend.
Growing up, Eric Weiner was hardly a soldier in the army of the Lord. He describes his family as “gastronomical Jews” (think bagels, lox
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Mission: Impossible 4: Cruise Control
With Pixar’s Brad Bird at the helm of this bustling live-action feature, the aging Tom Terrific tries to restore the covenant between a star and his fans
Mariah Carey Fatigue: All I Want For Christmas Is Some New Holiday Music
Listen to TIME’s Protest Song Playlist On Spotify
The Protester is TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year. In honor of that decision, we’ve put together a playlist of protest songs
Christian Bale Roughed Up in Failed Attempt to Visit Chinese Activist
My Five Things: Al Roker
Everybody needs a side gig, even the weatherman. A co-anchor on NBC’s The Today Show, Al Roker is also a novelist. He has co-written, with Dick Lochte, three murder mysteries starring chef/sleuth Billy Blessing: The Morning Show …
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Christopher Hitchens, RIP
Christopher Hitchens, the brilliant, pugilistic essayist and journalist, died Thursday of cancer at age 62. This is not a personal remembrance of Hitchens; I didn’t know him. It’s too bad, because from all accounts knowing “Hitch” was a bracing experience, involving arguments and legendary drinking bouts that Hitchens, inevitably, would …
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Top 10 Literary Sidekicks
The new Sherlock Holmes movie features Jude Law as an action-star Watson. TIME takes a look at nine of literatures other great comrades.
Alvin and the Chipmunks, or The Burdens of Parenthood
Every parent sacrifices: hours logged at cold skating rinks, wet soccer fields, airless American Girl stores. And that’s the stuff that comes after toilet training. Then there are the movies targeted at children too young to …