Great news for comic book fans and devotees of Comic Con, which started yesterday in New York City: after 50 years, the Amazing Spider-Man series is ending in December with Issue #700, but Marvel has announced that a new series, …
Adele’s ‘Skyfall’ Debuts but Doesn’t Skyrocket on Billboard Chart
It’s time again for our weekly recap on what’s happening in the charts from Billboard, the music industry’s longtime standard bearer in measuring airplay and sales of singles and albums. This week we have three new singles …
Today’s Movie Trailer: Anthony Hopkins in Hitchcock
How better to keep Halloween celebrations going than with a scary movie—or, at least, a movie about a scary movie. The upcoming Hitchcock, debuting at the AFI Fest on Nov. 1 and due in theaters Nov. 23, goes behind the scenes for the making of Psycho. And if you didn’t already know that it was no ordinary movie shoot, the trailer …
Just How Scary Is Sinister?
Scary, but you’ll still sleep… Ethan Hawke plays a true crime writer who gets a little too close to his latest project—the investigation of a gruesome multiple murder
Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct?
The new Nobel laureate has been accused of being both subtly subversive and too close to the party line
Judd Apatow: In a Family Way
Judd Apatow’s upcoming movie, This Is 40 (out Dec. 21), is a family film. Not that kind of family film: it’s still rated R, and it’s still a Judd Apatow movie. Picking up a subplot from 2007’s Knocked Up and running with it, This …
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Dead Tree Alert: Big Bird Is a Republican
OK, he’s not, literally. (Though he was the first one to see the elephant. Coincidence?) But as I write in my print TIME column this week, one thing that’s been lost in the debate over PBS funding is that PBS not only serves …
Seven Psychopaths: Smart, Violent, Crazy Fun
Martin McDonagh convenes a killer cast for his shaggy Shih Tzu crime comedy
The Iran Job Director on Sneaking Into Iran to Follow an American Basketball Player
German-American director Till Schauder spent five years following Kevin Sheppard, 33, a former American college basketball player who went to Iran to play as a journeyman athlete. The result, the documentary The Iran Job, is …
Ben Affleck’s Argo: Can a Fake Movie Save Real Lives?
This fact-inspired story of an audacious caper during the Iran hostage crisis has all the makings of an Oscar winner, but that doesn’t mean it’s a great film
David Quammen Talks Life on the Front Lines of Virology
Back in 2003, a new virus that would be called SARS jumped from a bat to a civet cat to human beings, eventually infecting thousands and killing nearly 800 people. That’s just one example of the threat that animal microbes can …
National Book Awards: Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Robert Caro Among Finalists
The 20 finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards were named this morning by David Steinberger, chairman of the board of the National Book Foundation. The winners in each of the four categories (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and …
Tig Notaro Live: The Best Medicine
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
There are few people who deserve the term “badass” as much as Tig …