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Jan 23, 2020
Movies about jobs and the toll they can take on the human psyche are a tough sell. How do you dramatize fatigue, anxiety and repressed ennui without boring an audience to bits? The best approach is to use an actor's face to carry the burden, which is what Kitty Green does in her quietly harrowing…
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Jan 23, 2020
Guy Ritchie made his presence known with a bang in 1998, when the scrappy, streetthug symphony Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels became a surprise hit. In the years since, he has given us two garish but entertaining Sherlock Holmes movies, a liveaction version of Aladdin and one sleek, truly terrific spy caper, The Man…
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Jan 23, 2020
The Good Place always sounded like a match made in TV heaven: Beloved star Kristen Bell. Comedy veteran Ted Danson. And creator Mike Schur, a prolific writer and producer who'd made his name as a driving force behind acclaimed sitcoms The Office, Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. As we approach the end of its…
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Jan 23, 2020
While 2019 may not have been an explosive year in pop music, it teed up the personalities and story lines that could define the next decade in listening. A new generational gap opened up, one separating the veteran stars of the '10s-think Beyoncé, Drake, Rihanna and Taylor Swift-from a new crop of ascendant artists like…
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Jan 23, 2020
Lidia Yuknavitch, author of such celebrated books as The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, once presented a viral TED talk titled "The Beauty of Being a Misfit." The characters in Verge, her new collection of short stories, are misfits too: rejects and refugees and runaways and an addict turned yuppie, all…
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Jan 23, 2020
The orphaned teenagers at the center of Paul Yoon's latest novel like to fantasize about traveling to far-off places at night. They go to Paris or the moon. One visits a "very large" ship. As their days dip into darkness, 17-year-olds Prany and Alisak and 16-year-old Noi, Prany's sister, imagine that they are anywhere other…
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Jan 23, 2020
Monty Python's eclectic mind
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Jan 23, 2020
The sci-fi novelist on inventing the term cyberspace, the surprising way AI could be truly intelligent and the ending he regrets In the same way Hunter S. Thompson and Pablo Picasso gave us gonzo journalism and Cubism, you've been credited with creating cyberpunk and inventing the term cyberspace. How do you plead? I remember early…
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Jan 23, 2020
The Good Place always sounded like a match made in TV heaven: Beloved star Kristen Bell. Comedy veteran Ted Danson. And creator Mike Schur, a prolific writer and producer who'd made his name as a driving force behind acclaimed sitcoms The Office, Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. As we approach the end of its…
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Jan 22, 2020
(CHICAGO) — Rapper Juice WRLD died of an accidental overdose of oxycodone and codeine, the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said Wednesday. The medical examiner's announcement several weeks after the 21-year-old rapper, whose given name was Jarad Anthony Higgins, went into convulsions at Midway International Airport on Dec. 8 after he and his entourage arrived…
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Jan 22, 2020
A new excerpt from the book offers insight into early editions of the Games
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Jan 22, 2020
Combining Gwyneth's aura of trustworthiness, real science, New Age nonsense, female empowerment and naked commercialism runs the risk of exacerbating the epidemic of medical disinformation
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Jan 22, 2020
Jones' family said he died 'after a long, extremely brave but always good humored battle with a rare form of dementia'
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Jan 22, 2020
Billie Eilish? Lizzo? Lil Nas X? Here's who will—and should—take home prizes
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Jan 21, 2020
Swift has spoken about her mother's battle with cancer over the years
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Jan 21, 2020
Can Baby Jabba hold his own against Baby Yoda?
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Jan 21, 2020
A Van Gogh Museum researcher says the painting was completed in the late summer of 1889
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Jan 21, 2020
a personal essay reflecting on being yellow in America in 2020 raising kids who are "Asian" but have not yet been to Asia why Asian-American men have never been and will never be real Americans (and why that's relevant to the immigration questions of today) and what it's like to never ever ever see yourself…
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Jan 20, 2020
Who's hosting, who's performing and who's up for awards on music's big night
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Jan 19, 2020
"Parasite" has officially infected this year's award season. Bong Joon Ho's Korean class satire became the first foreign language film to take top honors from the Screen Actors Guild on Sunday, setting itself up as a legitimate best picture contender to the front-runner "1917" at next month's Academy Awards. The best ensemble win for "Parasite"…
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Jan 19, 2020
The prince said he hopes the move will allow his family a "more peaceful life"
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Jan 19, 2020
"It's about that time when New Year's goals and resolutions get just a bit harder to stick to"
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Jan 19, 2020
The recurring character has drawn criticism for reinforcing racial stereotypes
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Jan 17, 2020
Tolkien helped edit and publish much of his father's work posthumously
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Jan 17, 2020
It is a well-known truth among linguists that so long as English is changing — which it always is — there will be people who are belly-aching about it, warning that if things keep going as they are, the language will soon be on life support and, as likely as not, dead within the year.…
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Jan 17, 2020
Listen to new music from Mac Miller's posthumous album and more
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Jan 17, 2020
From Carrie Brownstein to Mel Brooks
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Jan 17, 2020
The panel will listen to weeks of testimony in the movie mogul's rape and sexual assault trial
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Jan 17, 2020
"No, *I* am your father"
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Jan 17, 2020
The follow-up to 2018's "Kamikaze" — also released without warning — was announced on Twitter just after midnight
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Jan 17, 2020
The supermodel is Ivanka Trump's sister-in-law
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Jan 17, 2020
The album finds him embracing a soulful brand of folk rock and relying on his unadorned, plaintive singing like never before
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Jan 16, 2020
Unlike its competitors, Peacock will largely rely on advertising
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Jan 16, 2020
The satirist's latest comedy is light years away from 'Veep'—and that's what makes it so intriguing
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Jan 16, 2020
Jeanine Cummins' highly anticipated fourth book, American Dirt, opens with the kind of massacre that has become terribly familiar to those forced to live in the cross fire of Mexican drug cartels. At her niece's quinceañera in Acapulco, a middle-class Mexican bookstore owner named Lydia shields her son in a shower stall while sicario gunmen…
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Jan 16, 2020
If he is in bed by 9 p.m., Steve Inskeep can get six hours of sleep before the alarm. He's due at NPR's Washington, D.C., headquarters at 4 a.m. for the live broadcast of Morning Edition that starts an hour later. It means the most intense part of his workday is over when a lot…
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Jan 16, 2020
Squeals and laughter ring out across the set of Sex Education. It's Gillian Anderson's last day of filming for Season 2, and Ncuti Gatwa-who plays the show's ebullient teen Eric Effiong-has just discovered Anderson has hired an ice cream truck as a parting gift. A blackboard next to the treats, decorated with chalk drawings of…
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Jan 16, 2020
The world's most popular living author in Spanish on not fearing death and the forgotten event behind her new novel Your new novel, A Long Petal of the Sea, centers on a historical event: in 1939, the poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda chartered a boat to take 2,200 Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship to Chile.…
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Jan 16, 2020
I used to love the Golden Globes. There's more riding on the Oscars, sure, and the Grammys have performances from the world's most bankable singers. But for those of us who were never all that impressed by these institutions' efforts to identify the best in popular art-or who simply prefer low camp to high glamour-it…
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Jan 16, 2020
"Folklore," Zora Neale Hurston wrote in an essay, "is the boiled-down juice of human living." It was this deep interest in the lives and stories of the black community that led Hurston, who grew up in Eatonville, Fla., to spend years traveling across the South and the Caribbean as an anthropologist and ethnographer. But long…
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Jan 16, 2020
Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens isn't just the name of a new Comedy Central show-it's a statement of fact. The 31-year-old, who recently won a Golden Globe for her lead role in last year's indie hit The Farewell-and who rose to fame in the early 2010s spitting jokey feminist raps like "My Vag"-is known to…
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Jan 15, 2020
'Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez' 'Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez,' portrays its subject as a man dogged by darkness
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Jan 15, 2020
Catfish, authentic friendships and on-call therapy behind the scenes of a new competition built around a social media platform
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Jan 15, 2020
Ken Jennings emerged victorious, and pocketed $1 million in prize money
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Jan 15, 2020
Ken Jennings emerged victorious, and pocketed $1 million in prize money
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Jan 14, 2020
The Boss and Patti Scialfa sat in the front row as the 25-year-old was sworn in
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Jan 14, 2020
The movie has become a standard bearer for many comic-book fans who believe their lifelong obsession is still frowned upon by society
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Jan 14, 2020
The movie has become a standard bearer for many comic-book fans who believe their lifelong obsession is still frowned upon by society
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Jan 14, 2020
De Jager says she took the decision to share her story after being blackmailed
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Jan 14, 2020
The deadly July 2018 wildfire killed more than 100 people
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Jan 14, 2020
She said she was unaware that her mother paid to have her SAT score changed
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Jan 13, 2020
Even if 'Little Women' comes away empty-handed, Gerwig will still have pulled off a historic coup
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Jan 13, 2020
While there are many systemic forces at play, one easily overlooked Academy rule may be having an adverse effect on the number of women who receive nominations
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Jan 13, 2020
The "Uncut Gems" star managed to look on the bright side to the snub
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Jan 13, 2020
From Jennifer Lopez and Greta Gerwig to the dominance of Netflix and 'Joker'
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Jan 13, 2020
As it approaches a milestone 125th anniversary, the New York Public Library is looking back on its most borrowed books of all time. One of the largest and most iconic public library systems in the U.S., the New York Public Library has 92 locations across the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island. In order to calculate…
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Jan 13, 2020
The nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards have arrived, with multiple nods apiece for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite and The Irishman. Todd Phillips' Joker led the pack with 11 nominations, including for Best Picture and Best Directing. The Best Picture category honored nine movies, including Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story and Ford V…
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Jan 11, 2020
Obama's initiative Reach Higher aims to help students get to and through college
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Jan 10, 2020
The Cannes Jury Prize winner tells the story of a trio of cops in a Parisian suburb and the people it's their job to protect
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Jan 10, 2020
The Cannes Jury Prize winner tells the story of a trio of cops in a Parisian suburb and the people it's their job to protect
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Jan 10, 2020
Plus Normani, Megan Thee Stallion and more
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Jan 10, 2020
Laxmi Agarwal was 16 years old when her life changed forever. She was out running an errand in New Delhi in 2005 when she was attacked with acid by three assailants, one of whom was a 32-year-old family friend whose romantic advances she had refused. She suffered severe injuries and underwent multiple surgeries in the…
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Jan 09, 2020
At least this mindless creature feature, a shameless ripoff of 'Alien,' has the actor's charismatic, deadpan insouciance going for it
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Jan 09, 2020
(NEW YORK) — Justin Bieber says that he has been battling Lyme disease. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, the pop star wrote that "it's been a rough couple years but (I'm) getting the right treatment that will help treat this so far incurable disease and I will be back and better than ever." Lyme…
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Jan 09, 2020
Alfre Woodard, one of Hollywood's most versatile stars, tells TIME about her new movie and finding opportunity when doors were closed. In your new movie Clemency, you play a prison warden in a facility with death-row inmates. What did you do to prepare? My filmmaker, Chinonye Chukwu, took me on a tour of prisons in…
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Jan 09, 2020
(RIO DE JANEIRO) — A Brazilian judge on Wednesday ordered Netflix to stop showing a Christmas special that some called blasphemous for depicting Jesus as a gay man and which prompted a gasoline bomb attack on the satirists behind the program. The ruling by Rio de Janeiro judge Benedicto Abicair responded to a petition by…
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Jan 08, 2020
(PASADENA, Calif.) — The brief farewell that Alex Trebek says will close his final "Jeopardy!" episode isn't on the horizon. "I don't foresee that 30-second moment coming up in the near future," Trebek said Wednesday, referring to his request for time to close out his decades-long run with the quiz show. While treatment for pancreatic…
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Jan 08, 2020
Horta is credited for breaking ground for Latinos and gays in Hollywood with the show
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Jan 08, 2020
The reality stars beat more than 100,000 entries in the competition
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Jan 08, 2020
Australian actress Yael Stone says she is giving up her United States green card to reduce her environmental impact
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Jan 08, 2020
With the thrill of New Year's resolutions behind us and a long winter ahead, it can be hard to keep going with workout goals. But sometimes, all you need is the right song to give you the push you need to keep at it — whether running, biking or weight lifting. TIME is here to…
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Jan 08, 2020
Benny and Josh Safdie spent a decade trying to understand their world
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Jan 08, 2020
Actor Chris Hemsworth will also donate $1 million, joining other giving stars
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Jan 07, 2020
Members of the avid BTS fan base army, a.k.a. ARMYs around the world are marking a much-anticipated occasion on their calendars: Friday, Feb. 21 — the newly announced date K-pop juggernaut BTS is dropping their upcoming album. The news was shared on WeVerse along with the name of the new project: Map of the Soul:…
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Jan 07, 2020
"This could be funny"
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Jan 07, 2020
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. In the midst of the third act of The Rise of Skywalker, there comes a moment when it seems like the luck of our two heroes, Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Ben Solo (Adam Driver), may finally run out. But, of course, this is…
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Jan 07, 2020
The nominees in most categories are selected in a vote by 6,500 BAFTA members
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Jan 07, 2020
The best-selling author wrote candidly about depression and addiction
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Jan 07, 2020
Viewers who don't know the novel it's based on might struggle to latch onto this grim, slow, emotionally inert procedural
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Jan 07, 2020
You don't need to be a Star Wars fan to get in on the fun
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Jan 07, 2020
The fashion magazine is making an effort to reduce its environmental footprint
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Jan 06, 2020
'Let's see if we can't both complete the year as pancreatic cancer survivors'
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Jan 06, 2020
For decades, journalist Peggy Orenstein has reported on the experiences of young women, including in her best-selling books Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Girls & Sex, a 2016 examination of the sex lives of women in or on their way to college. Orenstein shifted her gaze for her new book, Boys & Sex: Young Men…
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Jan 06, 2020
A night to remember
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Jan 06, 2020
Brad Pitt used his Golden Globes speech to make it clear that he is a Titanic truther
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Jan 06, 2020
Guðnadóttir won 'Best Original Score'
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Jan 06, 2020
The actor's facial expressions are the stuff that memes are made from.
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Jan 06, 2020
From Ricky Gervais' apathy to Tom Hanks' plea for decency
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Jan 06, 2020
The actor said that women need to vote in their 'own self-interest'
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Jan 05, 2020
There's no crying in baseball, but there is crying on an awards stage
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Jan 05, 2020
Investigations abounded on the whereabouts of the actor's makeup and hair artist
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Jan 05, 2020
'Thank you, Ellen, for giving me a shot at a good life'
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Jan 05, 2020
On Jan. 5, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honors its picks for the top movies, TV shows and performances of the previous year at the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Among the top Golden Globe nominees on the movie side are Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a…
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Jan 05, 2020
'This isn't a sitting outfit, this is a standing outfit'
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Jan 03, 2020
As we head into 2020, here's what the report does—and doesn't—suggest about the coming decade for Netflix in particular and television in general
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Jan 03, 2020
Disney's teen-oriented cable channel Freeform draws on the perennial appeal of orphan stories in two very different new shows that update the narrative for Generation Z.
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Jan 03, 2020
'Until we meet again, God bless you and goodbye'
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Jan 03, 2020
In a pivotal moment for the #MeToo movement, which exploded in the wake of multiple sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the once-mighty movie mogul goes on trial soon on rape and sexual assault charges that could imprison him for the rest of his life. Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in New York…
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Jan 02, 2020
Women directed 12 of 2019's top 100-grossing films, according to a new study
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Jan 01, 2020
(ATLANTA) — Nick Gordon, who was found liable in the death of his ex-partner Bobbi Kristina Brown, has died. He was 30. Gordon's attorney Joe S. Habachy confirmed his client's death in a statement Wednesday to The Associated Press. The Atlanta attorney did not give a cause of death or say where it occurred. Gordon's…
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