The cops have staked out the concert hall. The lead performers are nowhere to be found. The crowd is growing rowdy. The show must go on.
Yet, just when all hope seems lost for a great Blues Brother reunion at the Palace Hotel …
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Arrested Development to Definitely Possibly Happen Again
As surely as there is always money in the banana stand, there is always eternal optimism—encouraged by remarks by Arrested Development principals every half year or so—that the cast members of the show will reunite again and make the much-rumored Arrested Development movie. Sunday at the New Yorker Festival in New York City, …
Top 10 Haunted-House Movies
Why do these people always stay?!? As Paranormal Activity 3 hits theaters, TIME takes a look at at the best of its brethren.
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The Blu-Ray Menace; or, Who Really Owns Star Wars?
You may recently have noticed a disturbance in the Force, as if billions of voices suddenly got royally pissed off and cried out in Internet discussion threads. The impetus: a report, later confirmed by the New York Times’ Dave …
Top 10 Shirtless Movies
This weekend, as moviegoers take in the remake of Conan the Barbarian in all its bare-chested, chiseled-torso glory, TIME takes a look at other movies in which clothing was clearly optional
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The Path to the White House Runs Through AMC Mob Week
AMC announced that it’s scheduling its first-ever Mob Week next month, to be hosted by none other than former federal prosecutor, former NYC mayor, former TIME Person of the Year, former Presidential frontrunner, former Presidential primary washout and current, well, AMC movie-week host, Rudolph Giuliani.
As with Sarah Palin’s TLC …
Top 20 Worst Summer Blockbusters
Maybe it’s the heat, but there’s something about the dog days of summer that sends people running to bad blockbusters in droves. TIME takes a look back at the worst big-budget flicks of steamy seasons past.
Top 10 Ways Harry Potter Will Live On
For the Boy Who Lived, the story is now over. But fear not: TIME takes a look at the ways the wizard will live on even after the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” credits roll
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Netflixed Off: Will You Pay Netflix's New Price Hike?
You may have heard a sound yesterday, as if millions of voices cried out at once and examined their entertainment budgets. Netflix yesterday announced that it was splitting its base plan—$9.99 a month for unlimited streaming plus one DVD rental at a time—in two: $7.99 for one or the other, effectively hiking the price nearly six …
Top 10 Coolest Harry Potter Spells
From incantations that protect against the dark arts to charms that will stuff a week’s worth of luggage into your purse, TIME takes a look at the best spells from J.K. Rowling’s famous wizards
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Conan O'Brien's TV Show That Became a Stage Show Becomes a Movie
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Been watching Conan O’Brien’s new TBS show but long for those early rebel days when he was unemployed? When the beard was new and we were young and his career became an act of improvisation? When he was an outsider and only you and the five jillion people who followed him on Twitter …
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They Are Making Battleship Into a Movie. No Seriously, They Are Making Battleship Into a Movie.
It says so right here in Variety. What’s more, the movie based on the naval-combat board game has an honest-to-God good director attached, Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights). (Taylor Kitsch is in it! Riggins!)
OK, I had a snarky post all ready to go. (Imagining the tearful romantic scene before the climactic battle: “You sank… my …
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Peter Jackson Reportedly to Direct The Hobbit; But Can He Top Rankin-Bass?
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The big-screen adaptation of The Hobbit is reportedly close to solving its directing dilemma, with Peter Jackson himself, according to The Hollywood Reporter, in talks to direct the Lord of the Rings prequels.
No, this isn’t a TV story, but the Tolkien books are dear enough to me to …