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We’ve finished Hollywood Week on American Idol and, by the time you read this, Vegas Week. This means we’re approaching the live performances, when the contestants start getting winnowed down but, more important, we begin to see how the new judging panel interacts with the contestants, and each other, live and off the cuff.
I’ve said …
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I’ve said before that I think it would probably be best if this season of The Office were its last; the show may not be called The Boss, but it is Michael Scott’s story above all, and I’d hope that the show might get a liberating creative burst from not just sending off Steve Carell but going out in a blaze of glory.
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Some of cinema’s greatest scenes can be attributed to the music that accompany them. TIME picks the best movie albums.
“Blame It on the Alcohol,” last night’s breezy, sharply written episode of Glee, takes an Afterschool Special topic and spikes it with wry. Cued by Principal Higgins’s insistence that the Glee Club should commemorate Alcohol Awareness Week with an appropriate number performed at a general assembly, the kids choose “Tick Tock” by Ke$ha …
Big Love is anomaly among HBO shows, in that it avoids the obligatory nudity and rarely utters a curse stronger than “G.D.” With these self-imposed restrictions, the series has to find subtler ways of providing its shocks. Sunday’s episode, “D.I.V.O.R.C.E.,” boasted two jolts—mouth-to-mouth scandals that touched on the series’ …
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Last week, I posted here about my anxiousness, and excitement, but mostly anxiousness, about David E. Kelley remaking Wonder Woman for NBC. If there’s one thing from the 1970s original I don’t expect to survive, sadly, it’s the extra-length theme song (above), and credits combining …
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The Criterion Collection recently announced it would move its films from Netflix’s streaming service to that of its competitor, Hulu. In addition to having rights to many of cinema’s most beloved and classic movies, Criterion is …
TIME’s Feifei Sun and Claire Suddath pick the most unforgettable dresses ever to appear at the Academy Awards
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Astute Tuned Inlanders may have noticed that last week, I finally began updating my favorite-links blogroll, at left, and pruning or correcting some of the broken links. I plan on expanding the list with some new favorites too, but, you know, baby steps.
Along those lines, this seemed like a perfect time to poll the Tuned In readership: …
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I’m away this week, but Tuned Inland shall not be abandoned in my absence. TIME’s prolific movie critic Richard Corliss will be contributing some guest Big Love and Glee posts in my absence (and the week of Oscars, yet!), sometime Tuned Inlander Steve Snyder will be stopping in, and I’ve also programmed Robo-James with some discussion …
Unknown, Liam Neeson’s standard-issue conspiracy thriller, hopes to be mistaken for a Jason Bourne film — or, better yet, a sequel to Neeson’s 2009 hit Taken
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Objectively, as a critic, I probably wasn’t supposed to like “Threat Level: Midnight,” in which Michael Scott’s long-gestating movie finally came to fruition. It probably wasn’t plausible that the entire office would participate, and the episode was essentially like a giant, well-produced …
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Spoilers for last night’s Community coming up:
A typical episode of Community—there aren’t any typical episodes, but humor me—can really be reviewed on a few levels: the basic sitcom level (how funny was it), the format level (how well did its parody or formal experiment work, on its own and with the storyline) and the story-arc …
