The giddy goof-fest The Muppets is a Disney production, but actor Jason Segel, who was born in 1980, is the person most responsible for bringing Jim Henson’s puppets back to the big screen. He shares credit for the screenplay …
Movies
Hugo: Scorsese’s Magnificent Dream Machine
Turning from violent men to a poignant waif, the director pays luminous tribute to old films—in his best new film of the millennium
A Dangerous Method: Freud Had the Theories, But Jung Had the Sex
Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley fall into a mad passion in David Cronenberg’s what-if film about the first analyst to have an affair with his patient
Arthur Christmas: Santa Goes Corporate
If you love Wallace & Gromit, the series of shorts that established Aardman as the wittiest people to ever play with clay, then Arthur Christmas may seem a disconcertingly different animal.
The Artist: A ‘Silent’ Film to Sing About
This tribute to Old Hollywood is being touted as a potential Oscar-winner. But it is better than that: a zesty romance to leave audiences glowing.
Michelle Williams Is Magical in My Week with Marilyn
In 1956, Colin Clark, son of famed art historian Kenneth Clark, used the family name to land a job as Laurence Olivier’s third assistant director on The Prince and the Showgirl, a film featuring the improbable romantic pairing …
Breaking Dawn to Its Critics: “Bite Me”
With nearly $300 million in three days, the vampire epic proves irresistible to its fans and impregnable to reviewers’ scorn
Natalie Wood in Pictures
As new information on the death of Natalie Wood surfaces, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office has relaunched the investigation into her untimely death in 1981. Here, TIME looks at Wood’s life and career.
TIME Recommends: The Trotsky
Who says young people aren’t politically motivated? From New York to Oakland, the men and women of the Occupy movement have put their comfort and their safety on the line to demand, um, a whole lot of things. Which underscores …
The Incredible Year of Michael Fassbender
In this week’s Holiday Movie Preview special in TIME, I profiled Michael Fassbender, who’s had an incredible year — playing Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, Magneto in X-Men: First Class, Carl Jung in David Cronenberg’s A …
Happy Feet Two: Mr. Miller’s Poppy Penguins Save Their Own Planet
In his effervescent sequel to the 2006 hit, director George Miller softens the eco-message and ups the pleasure ante for 97 mins. of 3-D delight
Today’s Movie Trailer: Titanic 3-D. Will Our Hearts Go On?
James Cameron’s 1997 classic will be re-released on April 6. Get ready to fall for Leonardo DiCaprio all over again.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part I. More like Breaking Yawn
The world’s most insipid young lovers, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), finally consummate their love in Breaking Dawn—Part 1, the fourth installment in the Twilight series. This is cause for …