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The Broadcast Television Critics Association has announced the nominees for its first Critics Choice Television Awards, to be aired June 20 on Reelz, which you may know from the Kennedys miniseries or from various movie reruns. True to its name the group recognized a number of, well, critical favorites like Community, Fringe, Louie and …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, invite your father’s bannermen over and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“The Pointy End” is the first episode of Game of Thrones (and the only one this season) written by George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire source novels. In that saga, Martin responds to several …
Richard Ayoade’s feature debut lives inside a boy’s roiling soul while finding the human comedy in his desperation. From either aspect, it’s a cagey delight
The past two decades have seen the rise of the big-budget superhero movie. TIME picks the best that the genre has to offer.
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General second-season spoilers for Treme below:
I haven’t been blogging about Treme much this second season, partly because I’m cutting back on weekly reviews at Tuned In, but partly because the show offers both too much and too little to talk about. On the one hand, the show still takes its time, and—with exceptions like LaDonna’s …
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James Arness, who for 20 years personified the upright Western lawman as Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke, has died of natural causes at age 88. I’ll be honest: Gunsmoke was before my time as a TV viewer, and is enough outside my taste as a critic that I never watched it much as an adult. But …
Mike Mills’ autobiographical feature can be winsome and cute, but it’s also an insightful portrayal of loss, grief and love
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Say what you will about what MTV: it is a channel that has always known what it is, even if “what it is” changes every three years or so. In its early years, there was a distinct idea of what an MTV video looked like. There was, with Beavis and Butt-Head and Daria and experiments like …
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The Daily Show is not live TV, so when Jon Stewart responded Wednesday to Anthony Weiner’s inability to identify “with certitude” whether a certain Twitter photo was of his own crotch, Stewart noted that the show had not had time to generate a full segment. The show made up for …
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The good news first. Well, at least it’s potentially good news. Jane Lynch is the host of the next primetime Emmy awards! Yes, I liked Neil Patrick Harris too, but apparently he can’t host everything all the time and he was good enough to endorse Lynch on Twitter and he has a point. Lynch is personable, she’s a good stage performer, …
Something — some thing — is terrifying the good folks of Lillian, Ohio, but what is it? A gas-station attendant, his face blanched with fear, sees it and screams; all we see is his body being jerked out of the frame. A …
The prequel has all the makings of a smart fantasy parable, but it torpedoes its lofty intentions with flights of idiocy so wrongheaded as to be almost endearing
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Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next season’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so …
