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No Rebuttals: The Top 10 Movie Debate Scenes
In honor of the Presidential debates, we make a case for some of the best on-screen arguments in cinema
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What’s Your Funeral Song? Comments of the Week: Oct. 13–19
This week, in response to the news that Adele had made it onto the list of the most popular funeral songs in the U.K., along with perennials like Frank Sinatra and Celine Dion, we asked you which pop song you would want played at …
Comments of the Week: Oct. 6 – 12
This week, let’s take a look at the suggestion box.
From courtobserver’s comment on James Poniewozik’s piece “Big Bird Is a Republican“: Sesame Street should only teach 25 letters of the alphabet.
If you’re middle class, like
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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 …
How Does Adele’s ‘Skyfall’ Stack Up Against the Best and Worst James Bond Theme Songs?
Comments of the Week: Sept. 29–Oct. 5
We’ve all had just about enough of debates this week, and there’s more to come. So instead let’s turn to our commenters for some cold, hard truths. Or—at the very least—cold, hard …
How Did Ben Affleck Go from Armageddon to Argo?
Try to think back to Ben Affleck circa 2000, in the years after Good Will Hunting and before he directed Gone Baby Gone. The Daredevil years. The Bennifer years. There might be a bit of cognitive dissonance, but yes, that’s the …
Comments of the Week: September 22–28
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, …
Comments of the Week: September 15–21
Sometimes you just need to mix it up, go a little wild, do something crazy, et cetera. And this week, that’s what we’re doing with the comments of the week. No theme! That’s nuts, right? We know. It’s nuts. But we hope in a good …
Comments of the Week: September 8 – 14
This week, it became clear that our commenters know the difference between good and bad.
Jason Robbins’ knows what’s good, in reference to Richard Corliss’s review of The Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas:
“This is no speed racer.”
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Comments of the Week: September 1 – 7
The political conventions have consumed much of the past two weeks, but our commenters are always good at distracting us, at least for a little while. (Or a long while, if you actually follow through on all the movie suggestions …
Comments of the Week: August 25 – 31
Everybody needs an editor. Sometimes it’s us and sometimes it’s the world—so thankfully we (and the world) have you guys. If there’s anything bogus going on in television, movies and music, you guys are on it!
For …
Comments of the Week: August 19 – 24
We know we usually pick out five of the best comments of the week, but one this week was so far our favorite that we are giving it a solo show. In response to James Poniewozik’s post about the nostalgia inspired by commercials, …