Screenwriter-star Brit Marling enters a new atmosphere in the dreamy sci-fi film Another Earth
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South Park's Coming Back for Two More Years! Should It?
The most recent midseason finale of South Park, “You’re Getting Old,” generated a lot of talk among fans about whether it suggested that Trey and Matt were tired of doing the show and were about to call it quits. (The episode, surprisingly poignant for one largely involving poop jokes, focused on Stan’s growing cynicism and his …
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The Morning After: The Chatting Cure
Last night, Showtime debuted Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy, or rather imported it. Kudrow’s bite-sized comedy, about Fiona Wallace, a former financial professional who restyles herself as a therapist—dispensing counsel in three-minute video-chat sessions—began online three years ago. The TV version expands the story and fleshes the …
Happy Sweet 16: Top 10 Reasons Why Clueless Is Still Awesome
As our favorite ’90s teen movie turns sweet 16, TIME takes a look at its best moments
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From "Humble" to Pie as Murdoch Takes the Stand
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“This is the most humble day of my life,” declared Rupert Murdoch to a parliamentary committee today, and I can see why he would want to say that. They say you should always begin with a joke.
You can say what you want about the embattled CEO of News Corp.* and his performance, his …
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The Morning After: Junk Shots
Because my TiVo apparently decided that I was too happy, it decided yesterday evening on its own to switch the channel and start recording Hoarders on A&E. I always find the show fascinating and depressing, and fascinating in how depressing it is. The stories of the junk fiends, burying themselves in stuff usually as a reaction to deep …
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Murdochalypse or Schadenfreude? The Wall Street Journal Defends Its Boss
When Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corp. acquired the Wall Street Journal in 2007, a big question was how editorially independent the newspaper would be able to remain. If nothing else, the Murdochalypse (not my coinage) precipitated by the British phone-hacking scandal has provided a test. First, Murdoch favored his national American newspaper …
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Breaking Bad Watch: Cuts Like a Knife
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, put on your Kenny Rogers T-shirt and finish up researching collectible minerals on the Internet; you’ll need your full attention to watch last night’s season premiere of Breaking …
Top 10 Long-Running Movie Franchises
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2,” will be one of 2011’s highest-grossing films. TIME takes a look at other gargantuan film franchises.
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Friday Night Lights Watch (Repost): Let's Go Home
Last night, one of TV’s greatest drama about family, community, faith–and, incidentally, football–Friday Night Lights, came to an end on NBC. When this excellent, moving finale aired in February on DirecTV, I reviewed it here. For those of you who have been watching on NBC, I reprint it below. Spoilers, obviously:
In my preview …
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More Executives Flying Out the Window at News Corp.
In the crisis-public-relations business, they often say you dump bad news to the media on a Friday afternoon. This apparently is also the case if the crisis is in the media, as some high-level executives have exited News Corporation in the continuing phone-hacking scandal. First, Rebekah Brooks, erstwhile editor of News of the World, …
Top 10 Ways Harry Potter Will Live On
For the Boy Who Lived, the story is now over. But fear not: TIME takes a look at the ways the wizard will live on even after the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” credits roll
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Vince Gilligan, the Skipper: A Breaking Bad Q&A
Jim Poniewozik chats with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan on set