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Today’s Movie Trailer: The Amazing Spider-Man
“How’d you get up there?” asks Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy to Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker at the start of the newly released trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. “Fire escape,” he responds. “It’s 20 stories,” bats back Stacy …
The Bachelor Watch: Drama in Panama
Bachelor rules: No kissing instructions, no ex-boyfriends, and definitely no scrapbooking.
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TV Tonight: The River
There’s a school of thought that says the scariest thing in a horror movie (or TV show) is the thing you can’t see. Another approach is to scare the hell out of the audience with images they can see–the more imaginatively …
Counting Down Dickens’ Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House
Bleak House is the great writer’s grandest, most virtuosic achievement.
Requiem for Mr. Tough Guy
Ben Gazzara, born a street kid in Manhattan, died there on Friday, at 81, of pancreatic cancer—one of the few opponents tougher than he was.
What is the Best Best Picture of All-TIME?
Follow along (and vote) as TIME readers pick Oscar’s top Best Picture winner ever. Click on the matchups below on the dates indicated to participate.
Which Is The Better Best Picture: The Godfather or Terms of Endearment?
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, and take a look at the full bracket.
Downton Abbey Watch: The Ballad of Sad Lady Edith
I think we all know where we have to begin here: Poor Edith. Poor, poor, sad, pathetic, wobbly-chinned Edith. This episode dangled in front of her everything she has always wanted: a romantic future with her cousin (a little …
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Madonna, Clint and the Rest of Super Bowl XLVI Halftime
I went into last night’s Madonna Super Bowl halftime show expecting to hate it: yet another performer whose appeal can charitably be described as “nostalgic” (see The Rolling Stones, The Who, etc.) blasting out a set of oldies …
Counting Down Dickens’ Greatest Novels. Number 2: Great Expectations
The older Dickens got, the darker his books. With Great Expectations, he asks: How long can a society ignore the nefarious, corrupt or compromised sources of its wealth?
Too Old to Rock? Axl Rose and 9 Other Aging Heavy-Metal Icons
The Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials of 2012
Animals, beer, women in bikinis, aging actors — all the things that one would expect from Super Bowl commercials were present and accounted for this year. TIME grades the ads of Super Bowl XLVI.