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.
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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 …
Music Monday: Rihanna’s Talk That Talk
Rihanna is on a roll. One year after releasing Loud, the album that gave us the Grammy award-winning “Only Girl (In the World)” — as well as “What’s My Name?” “S&M” and “Man Down” — the Barbadian pop music …
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
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 …
The Descendants: George Clooney’s Tragedy in Paradise
Alexander Payne’s tale of a grieving Honolulu husband has been touted as Oscar bait but it’s closer to Hawaii Five-No
7 Lessons From the Lost Steve Jobs Interview, Showing at a Theater This Week
UPDATE: TIME has been provided with an exclusive excerpt of Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview. See the clip here.
Following the death of Steve Jobs on Oct. 5, there were some who compared him to Henry Ford — singling out the …
Drake’s Take Care Was Worth The Wait
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
In this moment, I feel like a proud parent whose bosom is swollen with …
Music Monday: Childish Gambino’s Camp
I’m pretty sure this is the first hip-hop album to name check Terry Gross.
London Boulevard Calling: Don’t Answer
Who still has the patience for that all too-familiar cinematic hero, the guy who gets out of prison vowing never to return to a life of crime and then immediately gets sucked back in by some paternalistic gangster?
Immortals: Crash, Bash and Flash of the Titans
Tarsem Singh’s myth-illogical epic offers a feast for the eye, scraps for the mind
Jack and Jill: What An Awful Drag
More than 24 hours has passed since I watched the new Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill and I am still dead inside. It made me feel as if comedy itself were a dirty thing, mainly practiced by people eager to express ugly feelings …
Lars von Trier’s Melancholia: The End of the World as He Knows It
The director, banned at Cannes for a Nazi joke, is dead serious in this ravishing, troubling, borderline-brilliant vision of life on a doomed planet—ours