Big Miracle: A Slice of 80s Nostalgia, With a Side of Whale
This energetic family movie, about a pod of whales trapped in Alaskan ice, is less insipid than it looks.
10 Questions with Maya Rudolph
In this week’s TIME Magazine, Editor at Large Belinda Luscombe talks to Maya Rudolph, former Saturday Night Live cast member and star of last summer’s hit comedy Bridesmaids. Currently, she can be seen alongside Christina …
Chronicle: It’s Carrie Plus X-Men, With Found Footage
A troubled teen gets telekinetic powers, and films himself flying high and going mad, in this diverting, annoying horror movie
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Dead Tree Alert: Smash: Broadway’s West Wing, or Its Studio 60?
NBC’s musical-about-a-musical, Smash, debuts next Monday, but after the massive promotional blitz, you’d be excused for feeling like you’ve already seen the entire 15-episode season. (The pilot has been available for streaming and download for a few weeks now.) NBC has high hopes for the show–I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t do huge …
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Top 10 Atari Arcade Games
In this week’s TIME Magazine, we write about a group of 10 original Atari programmers who are banding together to form a new casual gaming company. Here’s a look at some of the old company’s best coin-op titles.
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The Morning After: Portlandia
I have not, if you are a regular reader of this blog and have been wondering, given up on American Idol, not yet. But I’ve sworn off watching the audition rounds, because of, um, my religion. (Got-other-things-to-do-ism.) …
The Simpsons‘ Greatest Guest Voices
Counting Down Dickens’ Greatest Novels. Number 5: Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend has one major flaw, for which I can’t quite forgive it. But it also has some of Dickens’ strangest, most haunting characters.
Don Cornelius and the Legacy of Soul Train
A photographic look at the seminal dance program and its late creator.
Perfect Sense: Love in the Time of Catastrophe
What would you do if you started losing your senses, one at a time? Ewan McGregor has the right idea: cuddle up to Eva Green
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Love, Peace and Soul: RIP Don Cornelius
Soul Train host and TV-music pioneer Don Cornelius has been found dead in his Encino, Calif., home of a suicide, according to police. My colleague Madison Gray has more of the details, and it’s a sad ending to the life of someone who brought us one of the purest expressions of joy ever to take the form of a TV show. But Soul Train wasn’t …
‘Soul Train’ Creator Don Cornelius Dies in Suicide
The ‘Soul Train’ creator is credited with bringing urban culture and R&B music into the homes of millions. He was 75