For the first time in 15 years, a Christian album is No. 1. TIME examines how Christian music hit the mainstream and why it’s here to stay
PopulistMovies
Gross, Point Blank: 10 Most Disgusting Eating Scenes From Movies
From incredible to inedible, TIME presents a 10-course menu of filmdom’s most gut-churning eating scenes
Tuned InTelevision
TV Tonight: Revolution
First things first: I do not care whether the premise of NBC’s Revolution—all electricity, even batteries, ceases functioning, and civilization collapses—is physically plausible. I don’t know how the catastrophe happened. It …
Anderson Twofer: Resident Evil 5 and The Master Nail Big Openings
Paul W.S. Anderson’s horror franchise and Paul Thomas Anderson’s non-Scientology drama upstage the 3-D rerelease of ‘Finding Nemo’
Postcards from the Festivals: Seven Films at Toronto and Venice
What did you miss by skipping the September fests? This batch of movies, some worth catching
Comments of the Week: September 8 – 14
This week, it became clear that our commenters know the difference between good and bad.
Jason Robbins’ knows what’s good, in reference to Richard Corliss’s review of The Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas:
“This is no speed racer.”
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Ninjas Keep Noisy Theater-Goers In Line
One London theater takes a startling approach to disruptive behavior
Lil Wayne Is Rabid, Raw on Dedication 4
The rapper’s latest mixtape contains moments both great and questionable
Tuned InNews Media
Dead Tree Alert: Check, Please
My column (subscription required) is back in the print TIME magazine this week, and it catches up on what’s been one of the major distinguishing media features of the 2012 campaign: the rise, and limitations, of fact-checking in …
Lindsay Lohan’s “Walking Pneumonia” and Six Other Unbelievable Celebrity Excuses
Lindsay proves once again that just because you’re a star doesn’t mean the rest of us were born yesterday
Google Takes Guess Work Out of ‘Degrees of Kevin Bacon’
Spoiler alert: this post contains the name of an actor with a Bacon number higher than 6
Tuned InTelevision
Glee Watch: Long-Distance Relationship
Spoilers for last night’s Glee below:
Glee, more than maybe any show on TV right now, has mastered the art of disappointing me just enough that I can never permanently give up watching it. When I try to remember season 3, I …
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: A Teen Angel’s Dreamy Angst
Emma Watson of the Harry Potter franchise comes to America to comfort a lonely high-school freshman in Stephen Chbosky’s film of his young-adult best-seller