With ‘The Grey’ depicting the dangers found on the frozen plains of Alaska, TIME takes a look at movies that had a chilling effect on audiences
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The Grey: Wolves Near a Plane
Mountain man Liam Neeson battles a lupine conspiracy in this fitfully engrossing but logorrheic thriller
Why to Read Dickens Now (Or Watch Him on TV)
Starting tomorrow, Jan. 27, we will blog his ten best novels. Why don’t you follow along with us?
Costume Designer Eiko Ishioka Dies at 73
The Oscar-winning designer behind such movies as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Cell passed away Saturday, Jan. 21 in Tokyo. The wedding dress above, worn by Sadie Frost in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 adaptation of the famous …
Ben Folds Five is Reuniting!
Yesterday, Ben Folds announced that he’d reunited with his former bandmates Darren Jessee and Robert Sledge to record a new Ben Folds Five album.
Wilco’s New Video is Also a Popeye Cartoon
Wilco released a music video for “Dawned on Me,” a song off the band’s latest album, The Whole Love. And get this, it’s also the first hand-drawn Popeye cartoon in 25 years. The video is a partnership between the Chicago …
Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close’s Quiet Man
The Oscar-nominated actress bases her performance of the title character, a lady disguised as a man, on Charlie Chaplin.
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For the Love of Beets: Are You Ready for an Office Spinoff About Dwight?
Steve Carell is gone, the ratings for The Office have been dwindling, but don’t think NBC isn’t going to try to squeeze more overtime yet from its closest thing to a primetime scripted hit. (At least until it manages to get …
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There Is a Rap Song About Ron Swanson
There is a rap song about Ron Swanson. Why are you even reading the rest of this post? Why haven’t you just clicked “Play”? What more could you possibly need to hear?
Well, all right: the track comes from Adam WarRock, whose past work includes a full album about Firefly (“M to the A to the L!”) and whose Parks & Rec EP also includes a …
This Man on a Ledge Is Pretty Wobbly
The rage against the economic machine that exploded forth from movie theaters in late 2011 (Margin Call, Tower Heist, In Time) continues in Man on a Ledge. In this slight, but crowd-pleasing caper, a blue-collar hero (Sam …
Only 5% of Directors in Hollywood Are Women. What’s Up with That?
According to an annual survey, of all the directors, executive producers, writers, cinematographers and editors who worked on the 250 top-grossing films of 2011, only 18% of them were women
Bridesmaids‘ Melissa McCarthy: Hilarious Performance, Not Oscar Worthy
This year’s Oscar nominations are vacuous in so many ways – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a preposterous choice for best picture – but the focus of the ire “coming out of me like lava” is the Academy’s nomination …
The Original Godzilla: New Criterion Release Celebrates the Greatest Monster Movie
Heavily re-edited and distributed in America ‘Godzilla, King of the Monsters,’ Criterion has revived Ishiro Honda’s original masterpiece, a complex and haunting monster morality play