Tuned InTelevision
The four remaining Republican Presidential candidates debated on CNN from Mesa, Ariz., last night, and God help us, it may actually have been the last debate of this GOP primary, ever again, for now. (There are no more debates presently scheduled,* after a planned face-off next week was scrapped, but as the New York Times reports this …
Tuned InTelevision
Tonight, Top Chef: Texas ends continues its season finale, which began last week with what may well have been the dumbest challenge theme the show has ever done. After whisking the four finalists off to Vancouver—because as we all know, British Columbia is the Texas of the North—it ran them through a gauntlet of three Olympic-style …
James Bond seen through a gun barrel. Blood. Beaches. Icebergs. Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Bad guys. Badder guys. Airplanes. Trucks. A helicopter. An open road. Pilots. A strange man walking ominously in front of a dark building. Guns. New York City. Surfing. Skiing. A servant carrying a tray of drinks on the …
Tuned InMusic
Watching a screener of PBS’ very good American Experience documentary, Clinton, which airs next week, I was reminded of watching Bill Clinton’s acceptance speech at the 1992 Democratic Convention. When Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop” swelled up at the end of the speech, I remember thinking, That’s it. He’s going to win the election. Now, …
Legendary movie critic Richard Corliss knows a thing or two about romance — well, at least romance on the silver screen. A while back, he told us about some of favorite cinema kisses, including Gone with the Wind, From Here to Eternity, To Catch a Thief and other movie classics.
Honest Abe faces down the vampire apocalypse in the gritty, absurd new movie trailer
Tuned InReview
There were many, many musical performances last night at the Grammy Awards, and I am not here to review them for you: TIME’s music critic, Claire Suddath, has that taken care of for you right here. But though there was a lot to comment on—Adele’s potent comeback from throat surgery, Nicki Minaj’s staging of an early-’70s horror …
Tuned InTelevision
JC Penney did the right thing this week, standing by its celebrity spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres despite a conservative activist group’s demand that it drop association with her because she’s gay. The group, One Million Moms, asked Penney to “remain neutral in the culture war” by firing a gay celebrity. (“Neutrality” must mean not …
Matt Damon is out and Jeremy Renner is in for the fourth entry in the Bourne series. Renner, who gave us a glimpse at his secret agent abilities with Deember’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, will star alongside Ed Norton, …
Today, as we celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens by unveiling the final book in our Blogging the Dickens series, PBS has gone and unveiled a trailer for their upcoming Dickens miniseries, Great Expectations.
“How’d you get up there?” asks Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy to Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker at the start of the newly released trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. “Fire escape,” he responds. “It’s 20 stories,” bats back Stacy …
M.I.A. released a music video for her song “Bad Girls,” and at first glance it appears to be a political statement about women drivers in Saudi Arabia. Then again, maybe the Sri Lankan rapper adopted a stylish Arabic aesthetic because it looks cool. It’s hard to tell with M.I.A. Either way, it’s a fun video and I think we can all agree …
Tuned InTelevision
The Trump primary is over. Thursday in Las Vegas, Donald Trump took to the podium to endorse Mitt Romney, who just over a month ago made headlines by spurning a debate that Trump planned to moderate in Iowa. With Trump’s backing of his “tough, smart sharp” fellow businessman, we are probably done—fortunately or unfortunately—with the …
