Everybody needs a side gig, even the weatherman. A co-anchor on NBC’s The Today Show, Al Roker is also a novelist. He has co-written, with Dick Lochte, three murder mysteries starring chef/sleuth Billy Blessing: The Morning Show …
When Men in Black 3 hits theaters next Memorial Day, almost a decade will have gone by since we last saw Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones together on screen.
A few weeks ago I was walking along a New York subway platform when I noticed the movie poster for Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve. It’s the follow-up (same director, same writer, same producers) to 2010 Valentine’s Day. Both are …
No, seriously. On our list of the best movies of 2011, chosen by Richard Corliss — our film critic of 31 years — the fourth sequel to 2001’s The Fast & The Furious comes in at number 10.
At some point in his career, novelist Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude) realized that he didn’t need to shy away from writing about pop culture in his books. (Though, as he says, “I don’t even like the term pop culture. It’s culture!”) He realized that having his characters engage with the songs and albums …
The new Twilight movie features a particularly gruesome birth scene. TIME takes a look at the nine (months, you know) most frightening film pregnancies.
The studio behind the bulk of the past decade’s great animated films has released a full-length trailer for its next film. Brave, out next June, is Pixar’s first film to star a female protagonist (voiced by Boardwalk Empire‘s Kelly Macdonald).
Now that the Harry Potter series has been put to bed and the Twilight story is its in final stages, Hollywood needs a new franchise that can appeal to both children and adults. Place your bets, then, on The Hunger Games, the first movie of which will be released next March. Here is the film’s first full trailer. It stars Jennifer …
This week, almost two months after their amicable break-up, R.E.M. will release a 40-song retrospective titled R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011. Bassist Mike Mills spoke to TIME about why he …
There will be two live-action Snow White movies next year. One starring Julia Roberts (titled Mirror Mirror) and this one, Snow White and the Huntsman. Starring Twilight’s Kristen Stewart as the title character, Thor himself (Chris Hemsworth) as the Huntsman and Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen, it looks oddly similar to a Lord of the …
By this point, German director Werner Herzog is a pro at jumping back and forth between fact and fiction. In the 1970s and 80s, he made some truly great and mysterious movies — Aguirre: The Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kaspar …
Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and the new Out of Oz, picks the five things he’s really enjoying right now.
The runaway lawnmower that is Hollywood just keeps chewing up our beautiful ’80s franchises.
