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In the print TIME magazine out now, I review (subscription required) David Milch and Michael Mann’s new HBO series Luck, which debuts Sunday and which I loved. Eventually. Yes, this is another critic flogging a cable drama by …
The first half of season two was very, very, very…slow. We’re hoping the second half finds more zombies and shooting. Who’s with us?
Truth and beauty are the victors in this playful, autobiographical tale of a French couple fighting for their son’s life.
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I’m closing a piece for the print TIME today, so I didn’t have time for a writeup of last night’s 19th GOP Presidential debate. (See my colleagues at Swampland for their political take.) I simply want to give you a chance to discuss it, and to note this: we are in a country recovering from a massive recession/near-depression, coming off …
From Devo to Nada Surf, a look at the one-hit wonders who go on to become much more
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With ‘The Grey’ depicting the dangers found on the frozen plains of Alaska, TIME takes a look at movies that had a chilling effect on audiences
Mountain man Liam Neeson battles a lupine conspiracy in this fitfully engrossing but logorrheic thriller
Starting tomorrow, Jan. 27, we will blog his ten best novels. Why don’t you follow along with us?
The Oscar-winning designer behind such movies as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Cell passed away Saturday, Jan. 21 in Tokyo. The wedding dress above, worn by Sadie Frost in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 adaptation of the famous …
Yesterday, Ben Folds announced that he’d reunited with his former bandmates Darren Jessee and Robert Sledge to record a new Ben Folds Five album.
Wilco released a music video for “Dawned on Me,” a song off the band’s latest album, The Whole Love. And get this, it’s also the first hand-drawn Popeye cartoon in 25 years. The video is a partnership between the Chicago …
The Oscar-nominated actress bases her performance of the title character, a lady disguised as a man, on Charlie Chaplin.
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Steve Carell is gone, the ratings for The Office have been dwindling, but don’t think NBC isn’t going to try to squeeze more overtime yet from its closest thing to a primetime scripted hit. (At least until it manages to get …
