Entertainment

Listen to TIME’s Fashion Week Playlist on Spotify!

Claire Suddath — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:30:31 +0000

It’s Fashion Week in New York City and Manhattan is crawling with eccentric designers, stylish socialites and hungry models looking for next season’s big trend. It seems that our invitation to Marc Jacobs’ show got lost in the mail, so to console ourselves we’ve put together a stylish Spotify playlist. Lady Gaga, ZZ Top and [...]

In Darkness: How a Swindler Became a Schindler

Richard Corliss — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:59:24 +0000

The Nazis’ Final Solution — their plan to kill all Jews under the aegis of the Third Reich — was meant to have a genocidal efficiency. Good old German craftsmanship: Send these faceless enemies of the state to concentration camps and gas them to death. Yet in Angieszka Holland’s In Darkness, a chronicle of the [...]

Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy?

Richard Corliss — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:14 +0000

Just about every government in the world wants Tobin Frost dead. A top CIA operative who went rogue a decade ago, Frost has been an embarrassment to the agency higher-ups, who can’t stop or find him. So they are pleased and a little edgy when Frost, running for his life from some ruthless, nameless commando [...]

The Morning After: How the Mighty Have Fallen

James Poniewozik — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:44:21 +0000

I mentioned earlier on this blog that I’ve decided to save hours and sanity by skipping the American Idol auditions this season. I make an exception, at least partially, for the Hollywood round, which is one of my favorite parts of Idol even if Idol’s TV audience doesn’t seem to share that opinion. But last [...]

House Pulls the Plug. Too Soon or Too Late?

James Poniewozik — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:23:13 +0000

The patient had been diagnosed some time ago by TV-biz observers, but Wednesday Fox called House M.D.‘s time of death for the end of this season, after eight years on air. Fox cited “the decision” that Hugh Laurie and the producers made, but it seems fairly mutual: Fox reportedly wanted to cut the show’s budget [...]

JC Penney and Ellen, Lowe’s and All-American Muslim: A Tale of Two Bigotries

James Poniewozik — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:02:05 +0000

The contrast between how Ellen and All-American Muslim were treated shows that, once viewers make friends with another group on TV, bigotry becomes bad business.

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island—The Rock's Latest Family Role

Mary Pols — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:30:12 +0000

The former athlete smiles a heck of a lot in this blithely idiotic family movie, a sequel to 2008's Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Which Is The Better Best Picture: On The Waterfront or Titanic?

Steven James Snyder — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:58:00 +0000

ON THE WATERFRONT Even today, nearly 60 years later, there’s no denying the intensity of On the Waterfront. The story focuses on Terry (Marlon Brando), a corrupt New Jersey dockworker who grows a conscience and blows the whistle on the crooked union boss who ruins his life — both destroying his career as a boxer [...]

Twimmolation Alert: Roland Martin Gets His Ascot in Hot Water at CNN

James Poniewozik — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:56:57 +0000

Martin may or may not have meant his tweets about David Beckham and wearing pink as homophobic, but they're obnoxious regardless.

From Gun-Toting Black Panther to Ivy League Professor

Andrea Sachs — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:58:29 +0000

In his new book Panther Baby, Jamal Joseph tells the story of his journey from young Panther to his time in jail to his current job at Columbia University.