TIME, feeling the need for speed, decided to choose the best car chase scenes of all time.
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Justified Watch: Mom, Baseball and Apple Pie
Spoilers ahead for the season finale of Justified:
It could not have been more fitting that the climax of this fantastic season of Justified, “Bloody Harlan,” came with Mags Bennett telling a lie about her family, encased in a truth about family. Facing Loretta, whose father she poisoned, and staring down her own possible death, Mags …
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Judging American Idol: The Final 5
Last night, the five remaining contestants on American Idol each sang a song from the present and one from a generation ago — a theme otherwise known as Now and Then; or, A Song, Plus Another Song to Make This Last 90 Minutes. Who made the past a blast? Who was a bad acid flashback? Click the pix to read my reviews.
Thor: A Minor Marvel
The Norse god faces two daunting challenges: to vanquish his enemies in mythological Norway and modern-day New Mexico, and to top Fast Five at the box office
The Beaver: Are We Ready to Forgive Mel Gibson?
Mel Gibson’s real-life meltdown wrecked his career. His meltdown in Jodie Foster’s new drama, ‘The Beaver,’ could help save it
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America Loves TV More, Televisions Less
Is nothing sacred, America? The Nielsen company reported yesterday that the number of US households with a television actually decreased by over a million last year; this marks the first decline in household TV ownership since 1992 (when figures were corrected to match census data).
Does this mean the nation is rejecting TV? Not the …
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Glee Watch: When Times Go Bad, When Times Go Rough
Spoilers for last night’s Glee:
Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is a classic of pop rock, a genre that Glee introduced itself to the world with (Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'”). And it’s a notoriously personal work, inspired by the couplings and decouplings within the group, compounded by gossip and misinformation outside the group—pretty …
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Scott Pelley Named as CBS's Anti-Couric
CBS News made official today what had been unofficial for a while: Scott Pelley will succeed Katie Couric as anchor of The CBS Evening News, starting June 6.
The announcement is pretty much the opposite of everything Couric’s was: it’s not groundbreaking, risky or surprising. He’s a competent, well-known CBS fixture—and falls into a …
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Bin Laden's Death, The Comedy!
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The killing of Osama bin Laden presented late-night comics an opportunity, as well as a challenge: how do you satirize good news?
Jimmy Fallon (above), went the tried-and-true route of spoofing his network’s own programming, with a response to the news from “Donald Trump,” who complained that …
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The Morning After: Shaken and Stirred
In the middle of closing something for TIME’s second special issue within a week (a wedding and a funeral! it’s like a Hugh Grant comedy up in here!) so no time for a lengthy review of last night’s How I Met Your Mother, though I don’t think “The Perfect Cocktail” would have borne one out anyway. It’s not unusual for an HIMYM episode to …
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Bin Laden's Death, Reported By a Media His Attacks Shaped
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When Osama bin Laden sponsored the attacks against America in 2001, there was no YouTube, blogs were just rising as a medium, and TV was shaped by the aftermath of the mass killings. But the news of his death was broken last night on Twitter, a medium that didn’t exist on 9/11. Keith …
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Game of Thrones Watch: Snow Job
Before you read this post, have your valet being you many, many cups of wine, then settle in to watch last night’s Game of Thrones:
“Winter is coming.” We know that. We’ve seen the ads, we’ve read the posters, we’ve had HBO repeat the tagline to us constantly for months. Winteriscomingwinteriscoming.
And yet, when I watched the …
Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Werner Herzog’s 3-D Trip
Land of Forgotten Dreams is an enthralled and mostly enthralling guided tour of what Herzog describes as “one of the greatest art discoveries in the history of human culture