Often the hardest part of picking the 10 Best Plays and Musicals of the year is deciding which one deserves the No. 1 spot. This year it was the easiest: War Horse, the spectacular stage version of the World War I-era …
Golden Globe Nominations: Pitt and Clooney In, Spielberg and Malick Out
They love George Clooney, Ryan Gosling and of course Brangelina. They’re so over Spielberg. And they didn’t care at all for The Tree of Life.
This morning, when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe award …
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Frenzied With Benefits
Guy Ritchie sends Robert Downey, Jr., and Jude Law on another chase-filled case; but this sequel is no equal to the savory 2009 original
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NBC Announces: America’s Got Howard Stern
Your chances of winning the next edition of America’s Got Talent for butt bongo just got better.
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Golden Globe TV Nominations: Another Round of Hits and Disses
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for January’s Golden Globe Awards this morning. I got over my caring-who-the-Golden-Globes-pick problem a while ago. The awards are fun as a show—I never miss …
She’s a Dancing Machine: Girl Talk’s 71-Minute Long Music Video
The girl hustles into the ballet studio to the disapproving glare of the dance teacher, and takes her place at the barre. You can tell from the start that she doesn’t belong there among the stern, steely bunheads. Her eyes are …
The Artist Leads 2011 Golden Globe Nominations With Six Bids
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Silent film is taking over Hollywood’s awards scene. The silent-era tale “The Artist” heads the Golden Globes with six nominations, among them best comedy or musical and acting honors for its French …
Firth’s Theorem: Awards Season and the Anglophile Biopic
In a recent issue of TIME, we postulated Firth’s Theorem, a simple equation for calculating a movie’s odds of winning nominations and statuettes during awards season. Here’s how it works:
1) Is the movie about famous, …
The Top 10 Video Games of 2011
Today’s Movie Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator
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Louis CK Wins the Internet (and a Bet on Human Decency)
On Saturday, comedian Louis CK did what was arguably a stupid thing. He made his latest concert video, Live at the Beacon Theater, available for streaming and download at his website for five bucks. The stupid part, depending on your view of human nature, is that he put up a version of the video that had no copy protection—you download …
Polanski’s Carnage: When Talk Turns Toxic
“We’re all decent people, all four of us.” Michael Longstreet (John C. Reilly) says to his wife and their two new friends in Roman Polanski’s Carnage. At that moment, viewers know they’re being fed an unintended-irony pill. It …
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ABC Shuffle: Amanpour Out, Stephanopoulos Back In, Tapper Robbed
Withits Sunday-morning news show This Week trailing third in the ratings, ABC has decided to reshuffle the decks and turn back the clock. Christiane Amanpour, the international-news reporter who took over the show in 2010, is returning to CNN to host an international-affairs show (while also reporting for ABC); and she’ll be replaced …