President Obama Made America A Mixtape
Political playlists aren’t easy. If there’s one off color lyric — or if the artist doesn’t agree with your agenda — you’ve got a minor scandal on your hands. Remember the uproar when Obama invited rapper Common to a White House poetry event? Or when Tom Petty, Sting and John Mellencamp all separately asked George W. Bush to …
The Vow: How Many More Movie Romances Does Rachel McAdams Have In Her?
We make this vow to The Vow: We will rewatch you when sick on the couch.
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The Morning After: 30 Rock at 60 Minutes
Watching a very good episode of 30 Rock is like rushing up and down a joke rollercoaster with a jet engine strapped to the back of the car. “Hey Baby, What’s Wrong?” was an hour long and was not a very good episode of 30 Rock, …
Which Is The Better Best Picture: It Happened One Night or Lawrence of Arabia?
The readers of TIME.com are choosing the BEST Best Picture of All-TIME. Come back every day to vote on a different match-up. Polls close at 9 pm EST.
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10 Things We (Still) Kinda Hate About The Phantom Menace
To mark the new 3-D release of the first episode in the ‘Star Wars’ saga, we grimly catalog some of its big failures and disappointments
Listen to TIME’s Fashion Week Playlist on Spotify!
It’s Fashion Week in New York City and Manhattan is crawling with eccentric designers, stylish socialites and hungry models looking for next season’s big trend. It seems that our invitation to Marc Jacobs’ show got lost in the …
In Darkness: How a Swindler Became a Schindler
Agnieszka Holland’s Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of a Polish-Catholic sewer worker and thief who kept Jews alive in Nazi-occupied Lvov
Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy?
In this efficient spy chase film, the star plays a CIA rogue who messes with Ryan Reynolds’ pretty mind
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The Morning After: How the Mighty Have Fallen
I mentioned earlier on this blog that I’ve decided to save hours and sanity by skipping the American Idol auditions this season. I make an exception, at least partially, for the Hollywood round, which is one of my favorite parts …
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House Pulls the Plug. Too Soon or Too Late?
The patient had been diagnosed some time ago by TV-biz observers, but Wednesday Fox called House M.D.‘s time of death for the end of this season, after eight years on air. Fox cited “the decision” that Hugh Laurie and the …
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JC Penney and Ellen, Lowe’s and All-American Muslim: A Tale of Two Bigotries
JC Penney did the right thing this week, standing by its celebrity spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres despite a conservative activist group’s demand that it drop association with her because she’s gay. The group, One Million Moms, asked Penney to “remain neutral in the culture war” by firing a gay celebrity. (“Neutrality” must mean not …
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island—The Rock’s Latest Family Role
A majestic mountain of muscles, Dwayne Johnson is fully capable of using his pectorals to catapult small objects hither and yon, a skill he demonstrates with berries in the blithely idiotic family movie Journey 2: The Mysterious …