From a biker chick to a superhero, TIME takes a fond look back at some of our favorite movie mothers
Avengers 2 in the Works: 10 Ways to Prep For the Superhero Sequel
Like many modern superhero movies, last weekend’s big box-office buster The Avengers revealed there’s going to be a sequel. It’s no spoiler that the next round’s villain is introduced mid-credits, except maybe to those …
Damon Albarn’s Dr Dee: The Blur Frontman Takes a Moody Detour
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
Dr Dee might not be the place in Damon Albarn‘s canon you want to call …
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Programming Note: Out of the Office, and Out at the Upfronts
I’m going to be away with the Tuned In family for a long weekend through Monday night, so I’m going to miss the first day of Upfronts Week, in which the major networks (on Monday, NBC and Fox) announce their fall schedules for advertisers. Fortunately, NBC and Fox have obliged me by announcing many of their fall pickups early. I wrote a …
Harry Potter Producer To Make Paddington Bear Film
The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that producer David Heyman (of the Harry Potter movies) and director Paul King (of British TV comedy The Mighty Boosh) are working on a “modern take” on Paddington Bear.
For anyone deprived …
Tonight You’re Mine: A Ball-and-Chain, Rock-‘n’-Roll Romance
They meet, they fight, they’re handcuffed together. How else can two people who hate each other fall in love at a Scottish music festival?
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Dead Tree Alert: Mad Men—Now in Color!
My column in this week’s print TIME (subscription required) is a midseason update on Mad Men. In it, I look at how the show’s (literally) brighter, bolder 1966 color palette reflects (figuratively) the less subtle times it’s …
Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows: Death Warmed Over
In their eighth film together, the star and his favorite director turn the ’60s horror soap opera into a middling pastiche
Where Do We Go Now?: A Dramedy About Women Trying to Stop War
They want peace. How do they get it? With belly dancers and hashish, for starters.
Happy Birthday Hulk: Celebrating 50 Years of the Big Green Monster
Girl in Progress? Eva Mendes Spins Her Wheels
Eva Mendes is the cutest Bad Mother around in Patricia Riggen’s amiable but slight single mama drama
From TIME’S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children’s Books
The curmudgeonly author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are sat down to talk about the kinds of stories children like to read and what makes such stories good (and bad)
Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer
For Orwell, being a book critic was hell. But I’m a lot luckier than he was—the job is so different now.