Jason Segel puts a ring on Emily Blunt in the new rom-com, but it’s not funny how far away the altar is
The Illustrated Life: Top 10 Graphic Memoirs
To celebrate Alison Bechdel’s highly anticipated new release, Are You My Mother?, TIME looks back at other unforgettable autobiographical comics
Morgan Spurlock on Mustaches, Mantyhose and Mansome
Documentarian Morgan Spurlock likes stunts. For Super Size Me, he gorged himself on McDonald’s burgers and fries to make a point about obesity. He dealt with product placement, marketing and advertising in The Greatest Movie Ever …
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David Simon, Blogger
A while ago, there was a controversy in people-who-write-about-TV circles when David Simon, creator of The Wire, complained in a New York Times interview about certain post-Wire coverage that he thought trivialized the show’s …
The Dandy Warhols’ This Machine: The Indie Rockers Go Goth
After eighteen years, eight studio albums and a major labor falling out, Portland’s bohemian hipsters return with a hypnotic, haunting collection
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The General Election Kicks Off, With a Slow Jam and a Quick Pivot
One of them spoke on cable news and one on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. One reminded America of its entrepreneurial roots and one jammed on stage with The Roots. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama both took the spotlight last night, the former to launch his general-election message in a primary-victory speech and the latter to pitch his …
Bernie: (Jack) Black Comedy About Real-Life Murder
The actor reteams with his School of Rock director Richard Linklater for a playful tale about a murderous East Texas undertaker
Dancing With the Stars Watch: Motown Mo’Results
There is some jive turkey going on in this week’s results
Marvel’s The Avengers: A Superhero Roundup That’s Almost Super
Joss Whedon convenes a half-dozen comic-book all-stars to gang up on poor evil Loki. It’s a fun party too bustling to worry about greatness.
Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet’s Prize-Winning HHhH
The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my …
Lindsay to Play Liz on Lifetime — Who Should Be Next?
Now that the scandalous starlet has signed on to portray Elizabeth Taylor in the upcoming television movie Liz & Dick, TIME picks other young actresses who should play Hollywood legends.
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Girls Watch: The Group
After the comedy’s pilot, “Vagina Panic” was a funnier, more structured episode, about sex and the idea that none of us is as special as we’d like to think we are.
“I hate to say this to the AMC executives and everyone else in the business, but I will never watch 'Walking Dead' live again.”