Looking back at my review of the first live 30 Rock in October 2010, I thought it was a fun experiment but not a great episode of the show. The jarring thing about the transition was not the live performance per se but the live …
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Best of Both Worlds: Fringe Gets One More (Final) Season
One mark of the way TV has matured as a storytelling form is that you can now be equally happy to hear that a show you love is getting renewed and that it’s going off the air. As dramas in particular tell more ambitious …
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Dead Tree Alert: The Year of the Nontroversy
Who’s nicer to dogs? Whose idiot supporters said more obnoxious things than the other guy’s idiot supporters? Who didn’t eat a cookie that it would have been more advisable for him to eat? These are some of the burning issues that have faced America as the general election of 2012 has gotten under way. And in my column in the print TIME …
Jason Segel on The Five-Year Engagement
“We’re, like, the least masculine writers in Hollywood,” deadpans Jason Segel, star of The Five-Year Engagement (out today), which he penned with buddy Nicholas Stoller. To wit: his latest flick, The Five Year Engagement, …
Dark Knight and a Vampire-Slaying President: Summer 2012 Movie Preview
The 25 most anticipated movies coming (soon) to a theater near you
Cinecittà: Celebrating 75 Years of the Venerable Italian Studios
Few film studios can claim to have seen as much history as Cinecittà, which has been the hub of Italian cinema for seven decades. Founded by Benito Mussolini in 1937 to film propaganda, Cinecittà was the site of 300 films in …
The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe Solves a Serial-Killer Mystery
In this fitfully diverting thriller, the haunted author racks down a crafty psychopath whose crimes mimic Poe’s most gruesome stories
Sound of My Voice: You’ll Want to Listen to This Cult Leader
Forget, just for a moment, the hubbub over HBO’s Girls and Lena Dunham to consider Brit Marling, another talented 20-something who writes her own strong female leads
The Beach Boys: New Song, Old Sound
Yesterday, two decades after they last produced an original studio album, pop icons The Beach Boys released a new single, “That’s Why God Made the Radio,” off their upcoming album of the same name. The song features the three surviving original Beach Boys (Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine) along with semi-original Beach Boys David …
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TV Tonight: The Costco Craze
Like most shoppers, I believe I am smarter than most shoppers. I shop at Costco, for instance—so I tell myself—because I’m savvy about the quality of the products I buy, about knowing what I want and finding it without assistance and about the savings of buying in volume.
But in truth, I also shop at Costco because, oh holy God, …
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TV Tonight: What Are Parks and Rec’s Politics?
The Pawnee City Council race heats up in tonight’s Parks and Recreation with an episode written and directed by star Amy Poehler, in which Leslie Knope has a high-stakes TV debate with her main opponent, Bobby Newport (Paul …
The Pirates! Band of Misfits: Yo-Ho-OK
The new stop-motion comedy from the Aardman Studios is better than most animated films — except for most other Aardman films
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Talks to TIME
For some people, Julia Louis-Dreyfus will forever be inseparable from her Seinfeld alter ego Elaine. For a vastly smaller number, she’s more memorable as the title character in The New Adventures of Old Christine. Now she’s playing a new character, and as far as fictional careers go, it’s a step up: the Vice President.