Red Tails: So Square It Can Barely Fly
The gee whiz stamp of George Lucas is all over this film—tons of flying action, dialogue of almost exquisite hamminess, a tale of good and evil and not much more.
His "Willie and the Hand Jive" was a 1958 summer sensation, but this white impresario was prouder of launching Etta James, Hank Ballard, Littlle Richard and other black artists into the musical mainstream
Steven Soderbergh's new leading lady used to be a mixed martial arts champion. So yes, she can totally beat you up.
Inspired by truly awful events, Gerardo Naranjo's melodrama is as smart and thrilling as it is tragic
For some reason, argued decency protesters, a TV episode premised on the idea that it is a problem for a child to cuss encourages children to cuss. Oh, for ___'s sake.
MMA star Gina Carano has the kick of an action heroine but not the charisma of a movie star.
Last week, New York Times public editor (the equivalent of an ombudsman) Arthur Brisbane wrote a blog post asking whether, in covering the campaign, reporters should challenge in the body of their straight-news stories statements by candidates that are dubious, distorted or outright false. Or as he put it—in a headline that generated unsurprising outrage from his commenters—“Should the Times Be a Truth Vigilante?”
My short answer, I say in my dead-tree TIME column this week (subscription required): yes. The longer answer: yes, but he did make a point that’s worth talking about.
For over two weeks Romney got the benefit of being described as the "winner" of a caucus that journalists should have called a tie. And the difference it made may have been a hell of a lot more than a few votes.
As the legendary novelist's 200th birthday (February 7) approaches, we highlight the most notable commemorations.
Action star Mark Wahlberg, in an interview with Men’s Journal, on how it would have gone down had he been on one of the hijacked 9/11 planes.
Watch TIME’s 10 Questions interview with Mark Wahlberg below:
An anti-profanity crusader on Tuesday asked ABC to pull this week's Modern Family episode in which a toddler appears to use a bleeped F-word.
FX's Justified, coming off a second season that was one of the best things on TV in 2011, returned last night with an episode that included new nemeses, an icepick-wielding adversary and some old-fashioned Western shootistry. (Also back—TNT's Southland.)
Between the years of 1958 and 1972, Robinson shot under then Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, capturing most of these memorable images.
I asked my Twitter feed its verdict on the episode. "The best in a while," came the answer. Also: "The worst in a while." This being Glee, I assumed they were both probably right.
Rumor had it that the rapper promised to wipe the derogatory term from his vocabulary. (He didn't.) Based on our calculations, he'd have to do a lot of scrubbing.
Letterman's now-ousted booker said that too many women comics were trying to act like men, rather than being "authentic." What does that even mean?
The Dark Knight Rises officially hits theaters on July 20. Somehow, though, the rush to buy tickets is already well underway.
Much of the British rock band's album Future This flounders unspectacularly.
The talent was always there. The arrogance....we're not sure.
