Writer-director Ry Russo-Young collaborated with the ‘Girls’ girl on this post-nuclear-family dramedy with a pensive power
An Open Letter to Rihanna: Please Use More Words
Dear Rihanna,
We’re worried about you. Not because of your tumultuous romantic life, and not because the makeup artist for your latest Vogue cover shoot appears to have had a vendetta against you. No, our concerns are purely …
Paranormal Activity 4: Jumping the Shock?
In its new chapter, the once-terrific minimalist horror series takes a nose dive by simply repeating old gimmicks
Feature Film Fashion: Hollywood Costumes at the Victoria & Albert Museum
The Muggles Take Manhattan: J.K. Rowling Live at Lincoln Center
Maybe you were watching that other debate, I don’t know. Your time is your own. As for me, I spent last evening at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City watching J.K. Rowling and Ann Patchett talk about …
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Debate Watch: The Fact-Check Heard Round the World
We don’t yet have pop-up fact-checks at Presidential debates. But for one crucial moment, we did have Candy Crowley.
Broadway Revivals: Why I Hate Hamlet — and Cyrano Too
I am, luckily, a theater reviewer who doesn’t have to review everything I see. I try to write about the shows that stand out in some way — both good and bad. Some shows are just too routine to bother with. Others don’t have …
Dancing with the Stars Results Watch: Everyone Can Stop Complaining Now
The DWTS results are in and one contestant finally got her due
Oscar-worthy: Actor John Hawkes Searches for Love in The Sessions
After his first Oscar nomination in 2011, Hawkes skipped the fortune and used his new fame to make a low budget movie about a polio survivor who hires a sex surrogate to deflower him. TIME talks to the actor about his method, …
Four Beauties, Three Beasts and a Hulk: Where the New CW Series Goes Wrong
The CW’s new ‘Beauty and the Beast’ may steal from Whedon, cop shows and Marvel Comics, but it somehow manages to miss the entire point of the original fairy tale it’s based on
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TV Tonight: American Horror Story: Asylum
Set in a 1960s sanitarium for the criminally insane, AHS’s second season begins as a more focused, if equally frenetic, screamfest.
Denzel Washington in Flight: A Crash Landing That Soars
The star boldly portrays a flawed hero in Robert Zemeckis’s potent drama
Which Pop Song Do You Want Played At Your Funeral?
If you pick which music you listen to every day of your life, why stop there? NME reported yesterday that fewer than a third of British funerals feature traditional hymns as a soundtrack to the event, according to Co-operative …