On Friday, audiences will be streaming in droves to see The Avengers, a superhero roundup filled with aliens, Norse gods and giant green rage monsters. But before that movie begins, they’ll see the trailer for a very different kind of superhero movie, The Dark Knight Rises.
Dancing with the Stars Watch: Putting the Classy in Classical
A full orchestra plays as one team earns the first perfect score of the season. It’s Classical Night!
Watching TV Without Cable? Fine. But You May Have to Pay for Cable Anyway
The cord-cutting era may be getting cut back itself. According to a report in the New York Post, the online video outlet Hulu (a joint venture of NBC, Fox and ABC) is considering requiring that its users prove they have a cable …
Music Video Website Vevo Wants to Tell You What to Listen To
Music fans can feel like they should be listening to all of the music, all the of the time. Thankfully, music platforms like Vevo are working to help cut through all that…you know, noise.
On Tour: Esperanza Spalding Will Restore Your Faith In Music
Fittingly, it all starts with a radio. The first notes of Esperanza Spalding’s album release tour aren’t notes at all—like a listener impatiently channel-searching, radio static gives way to her onstage horn section, as the …
The Morning After: You Can’t Go Home Again
Quick thoughts on the season finale of The Good Wife below:
One concern I’d had as season 3 of The Good Wife went on was that the show might be attempting to hit the reset button, returning to the circumstances of the series’ …
Midnight in Peking: Has Paul French Solved a 75-Year-Old Murder?
On a frigid winter morning in 1937, an old man walking near the Fox Tower of Peking’s crumbling city wall discovered the body of Pamela Werner, a 19-year-old English student. She had been bludgeoned and repeatedly stabbed, her …
Girls Watch: Ready for Their Close Up
With “All Adventurous Women Do,” you’ve now seen as many episodes of Girls as I’d seen before I reviewed it. Rather than recap the episode line by line, let me unpack two scenes from it that helped confirm I was sold on this …
The Dirty Little Secret of HBO’s Game of Thrones: The People Don’t Want War
Megan Draper and TV’s Best Female Characters: TIME Gives the Bechdel Test
How are women faring on tv these days? Alison Bechdel’s new book, Are You My Mother?, came out last week and we thought it would be a good time to revisit her litmus test for female presence in movies and television.
For …
Mad Men Watch: Daughters’ Disappointments
Megan scores, Peggy shacks up and Sally sees the dirty city. This week’s episode had us experiencing our first time again.
Game of Thrones Watch: Three Wishes
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, broil a chunk of raw meat and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“They say he can’t be killed.” “And do you believe them?” “No, my Lord. Anyone can be killed.”
Arya Stark is a …
An Early Summer Heat Wave: The Avengers Sizzles Abroad
While the U.S. box-office winner was Think Like a Man, the new superhero movie, opening exclusively overseas, blew away the competition