Valuable life lessons can be learned by thinking things out from another perspective, walking a mile in another’s shoes, going all Freaky Friday on somebody—or by reading the comments section of TIME Entertainment. This week, …
Psy Talks ‘Gangnam Style’ and Newfound Fame
“I’m still a nobody here. I’m just enjoying the situation.”
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Sub Commanders: Talking With Last Resort‘s Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek
Last night was the premiere of ABC’s military-political thriller Last Resort. At the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles in July, after watching the pilot, I sat down with creators Shawn Ryan and Karl …
New York Film Festival 2012: 10 Films to Watch
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Director Rian Johnson on Looper’s True Meaning
“You have to have something bigger than time travel that’s worth asking an audience to sit in the dark for two hours.”
Billboard Chart Decoded: ‘Gangnam Style’ Vs. Maroon 5
Welcome to our weekly recap of what’s happening on the weekly Billboard singles and album charts. Compiled on the basis of weekly sales and, in the singles charts, radio and streaming airplay, the Billboard listings have for …
Won’t Back Down: Maggie Gyllenhaal Burns to Be Erin Brockovich
Maggie Gyllenhaal gives an intense and over-the-top, I-want-my-Oscar performance as a fictional school reformer
J.K. Rowling: More Harry Potter Possible
With today’s publication of J.K. Rowling’s first foray into grown-up fiction, The Casual Vacancy, you’d think the Harry Potter author would be having a muggle-centric news day. But, even as The Casual Vacancy bows, Rowling has …
Travel Advisory for Hotel Transylvania: Avoid this Establishment
The world’s monsters are all scared of humans, so they hide out at a hotel run by Count Dracula (Adam Sandler). Let’s call it Motel Monsters, Inc.
Pitch Perfect: Back to School Isn’t Usually This Much Fun
In this raunchy comedy set in the world of competitive collegiate a cappella (yeah, that’s a thing), Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Elizabeth Banks hit all the right notes
Looper: (500) Days of The Terminator
Joseph Gordon-Levitt battles his future self — Bruce Willis — in Rian Johnson’s thoughtful, confident sci-fi crime drama
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TV Tonight: Last Resort
A really good drama pilot is like a submarine. It’s densely packed, purposeful and efficient; there’s little wasted space or dead weight. Everything on board has to justify its existence and preferably serves multiple functions. …
J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy: We’ve Read It, Here’s What We Think
It’s not really possible to open The Casual Vacancy without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There’s no point pretending they’re not there. I know I had a lot of, …