TIME celebrates the 25th anniversary of Top Gun’s release by listing everything we love about the Tom Cruise flick
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Upfronts 2011: NBC Hopes for Turnaround, Trump Not Running for President (UPDATED with Video)
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The headline first: At NBC’s upfront schdule presentation to advertisers today in New York, Donald Trump announced that he is not running for President. (As I told you in February.) The announcement, which may have stunned political reporters who forgot that Trump did the same thing in 1988 and …
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Upfronts 2011: J. J. Abrams, Kiefer Sutherland Return On Fox's Schedule
Fox, which previews its new series for advertisers this afternoon in Manhattan, released its 2011–12 schedule today, including four new comedies, three dramas and a new unscripted series. Among the highlights: Alcatraz, the much buzzed-about prison enigma from J. J. Abrams; The X-Factor, from Simon Cowell; the return of Kiefer …
Restless: Gus Van Sant Draws a Blank
The other night we had the pleasure of meeting Mia Wasikowska, the wan, wonderful young actress who has played the title roles in Alice in Wonderland and Jane Eyre and was in Cannes to promote her new film, Restless. Tall and polite, and flashing deep dimples she almost never reveals on screen, the 21-year-old Australian rhapsodized …
We Need to Talk About Kevin: The Face of Pure Evil
When a child dies, it is a tragedy for the parents, an upsetting of the natural order. But when a child kills, is the parent also guilty of the crime? We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay’s solid, scary film that became …
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Game of Thrones Watch: A Little More Conversation, A Little More Action
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, retire to your deck—overlooking a terrifying thousand-foot drop—and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
The first few episodes of Game of Thrones, because they had such a vast world to establish, involved a lot of talking: characters talking about history, about dragons, about who …
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Upfronts 2011: A Dozen for NBC
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NBC announced its 2011–12 schedule today, the first of the big networks to show its hand for Upfronts Week. (Click here for clips of all the upcoming shows.) I’ll have some thoughts on the previews we see after the upfronts presentation tomorrow, but here are some highlights, followed by the …
Wu Xia: Martial Arts Majesty
Wu Xia, which will be called Dragon when The Weinstein Company releases it in the United States, brought the Festival’s weekend slate roaring to life. An antidote to the slow, overweight Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger …
Johnny Depp’s Pirates Sinks on the Riviera
Today two action films invaded the stately art house that is the Cannes Film Festival. In line with the Festival’s policy of keeping the slate of pictures competing for the Palme d’Or pure and rigorous, Pirates of the Caribbean: …
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Programming Note: Upfronts, Here We Come
Monday through Thursday is “upfronts” week, when the major broadcast networks (plus some party-crashers like the Turner cable networks) present their schedules for next year to advertisers. (Cable has been holding its own upfronts piecemeal for the past couple of months.)
From the business end of TV, it’s the beginning of a ritual …
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Friday Night Lights Watch: Are We There Yet?
Quick spoilers for last night’s Friday Night Lights below:
I had planned, this week, to return to my regular schedule of reviewing Friday Night Lights for its NBC run, which I’ve dropped the ball on, so to speak, for the last couple weeks. You know what God does when you make plans: He dumps a bunch of other assignments on you, gives …
Unlawful Killing: Was Princess Diana Murdered?
Will they show the death photo? A week after that question dominated U.S. news in the wake of the Osama bin Laden killing, all of Cannes — or, rather, many in the British press reporting on the film festival — was …
Top 10 Movie Wedding Scenes
Lars von Trier’s Melancholia has one of the longest movie wedding scenes we can recall. TIME looks at cinema history’s most memorable matrimonial moments.