For your water-cooler needs — and so you can get excited about distribution deals — we rank the Tribeca Film Festival movies that will be worth paying attention to.
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TIME 100 Confirms the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood
After steering Meryl Streep to her third Oscar win and The Artist to a near-sweep of the Oscars, Harvey Weinstein is back on top. Johnny Depp spoke with TIME about the producer who “isn’t afraid of a duke-’em-out.”
Today’s Movie Trailer: Prometheus Makes Us Want to Buy a Michael Fassbender
Saying something doesn’t necessarily make it so. To hear star Michael Fassbender and director Ridley Scott talk about Prometheus over the past several months, you’d think it was the worst thing imaginable for the film to be a …
Spoiler Alert: Why Everyone Is Talking About The Cabin in the Woods
A new, semi-regular series in which we totally spoil one of the weekend’s films. If you saw The Cabin in the Woods, please chime in below.
Nyuk Nyuk! The Hunger Games Eye-pokes The Three Stooges
Katniss wins a fourth consecutive weekend. Her latest victims: the Farrelly brothers’ revival of the Stooges franchise and the kids in The Cabin in the Woods
The Trailer You’ve Been Waiting For: ‘Looper’
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis play the same man at different points in his life in the action film ‘Looper.’ Watch the ‘Looper’ trailer—a trailer that had its own trailers—here.
The Three Stooges: When Slapstick Meets Sentiment
The comedy trio of Hollywood’s Golden Age might have been coarse, brutal and mildly sociopathic, but those Stooges were worlds smarter than these wan ones
The Lady: Michelle Yeoh as Political Heroine Aung San Suu Kyi
Hong Kong’s martial-arts goddess brings her grave grace to the role of Burma’s imprisoned insurgent in a stately, intimate bio-pic
The Cabin in the Woods: Burning Down the House of Horror
Five college kids go into the woods in Drew Goddard’s directorial debut. What comes out? Pain-loving zombies, a wicked sense of Buffy-style humor and a film that finally shakes up the slasher-movie genre.
Eye Jabs & Head Raps: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos of The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges didn’t invent physical farce and extreme slapstick. But they were the best at it. What began as a Vaudeville act in the 1920s made the leap to television and film, keeping audiences laughing for six decades. In …
Miss Representation Doc Director on Why the Media (Still) Hates Women
The writer-director of ‘Miss Representation’ — on DVD today — spoke to TIME about the Hollywood boys’ club, the ‘war on women’ and the future of documentaries.
Nameless Gangster: The Korean Mob Film Scorsese Would Be Proud Of
The newest gangster film reinvigorates the genre. Let’s hope it gets a wide release.
The Week Ahead: Let’s Hear It For the Girls
Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EDT.)
Girls premieres Sunday at 10:30 pm on HBO
One of the year’s most eagerly anticipated and ubiquitously …