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Bob Saget's Fractures Possibly Caused by Fall on Carpeted Floor

ORLANDO, Fla. — Fractures around Bob Saget's eye sockets and bleeding around his brain were possibly caused by the comedian hitting “something hard, covered by something soft," such as a carpeted floor, according to a...

By MIKE SCHNEIDER / AP March 15, 2022

8 TV Shows to Watch When You're Feeling Stressed

From 'Parks and Recreation' to 'Bob’s Burgers,' here are eight feel-good shows to watch when you're feeling stressed.

By Shannon Carlin March 15, 2022

Evan Rachel Wood, Marilyn Manson and the Stories We Tell Ourselves About Iconoclastic Rock Stars

It’s very easy to make the argument that he’s a scary guy, but very hard to convince people they should care.

By Judy Berman March 15, 2022

Pete Davidson Headed to Space on Blue Origin Craft

NEW YORK — Pete Davidson is heading to space. The Saturday Night Live star is among the six passengers on the next launch of Jeff Bezos' space travel venture Blue Origin, the company announced Monday....

By Associated Press March 14, 2022

Dolly Parton to Rock Hall of Fame: Thanks But No Thanks

Dolly Parton has announced she is pulling out of this year’s nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, saying she hasn't “earned that right.” The music icon, who has been elected into the...

By Associated Press March 14, 2022

William Hurt, Star of 'Broadcast News,' 'Body Heat,' Dies

NEW YORK (AP) — William Hurt, whose laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an actor made him one of the 1980s foremost leading men in movies such as “Broadcast News," “Body Heat” and “The Big...

By JAKE COYLE / AP March 14, 2022

The Singing Penis, The Masquerading Clitoris, and Other Sex Secrets of the Animal World

Evolution got especially creative when it came to sex

By Emmanuelle Pouydebat March 14, 2022

11 Time-Travel Movies to Watch After Netflix’s The Adam Project

In Netflix’s The Adam Project, Ryan Reynolds plays Adam Reed, a fighter pilot from 2050 who heads back in time to stop the development of time travel. His mission only gets harder after he crash-lands...

By Shannon Carlin March 11, 2022

Ryan Reynolds' The Adam Project Should Be Fun, But It's Sabotaged By Unwieldy Ambitions

Some movies don’t have enough plot or excitement; others try to pack in so much that it’s a scramble just trying to figure out what’s going on. It’s hard to know exactly where The Adam...

By Stephanie Zacharek March 11, 2022

Samuel L. Jackson Gives the Performance of a Lifetime in The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

It's a rare pleasure, these days, to encounter a premise that feels genuinely original.

By Judy Berman March 11, 2022

Jussie Smollett Sentenced to 150 Days for Fake Attack

The judge branded the actor a charlatan for staging a hate crime against himself while the nation struggled with issues of racial injustice

By DON BABWIN and KATHLEEN FOODY / AP March 10, 2022

Will We Ever Really Know Who Andy Warhol Was? A New Docuseries Digs Into His Private Life

Just because an artist denies the public access to their interiority, doesn’t mean they are unknowable.

By Judy Berman March 9, 2022

The True Story Behind The Thing About Pam

Pam Hupp is a good friend, a helper, a star witness, a loving daughter—and a killer? The NBC docudrama The Thing About Pam, which premiered March 8, tells the true story of how Hupp (Renée...

By Shannon Carlin March 9, 2022

'Whatever You Survive Becomes a Triumph, Right?' Harvey Fierstein Looks Back—Even Though He Prefers Not To

TIME: How do you know when you're ready to write a memoir, I Was Better Last Night? Fierstein: It’s very simple. This is good instruction for any of your readers: you arrange for a global...

By Alex Rees March 9, 2022

Kerry Washington on Fixing Democracy

Washington spoke to Katie Couric on International Women's Day at TIME's Women of the Year event in Los Angeles

By Eliana Dockterman March 9, 2022

Just Tell Queer Stories

In 2022, I’ve developed a weekly ritual of absolutely screaming into my group chat about whatever queer show is currently airing. I grew up in the aughts and watched LGBTQ narratives slowly leak into the...

By Jill Gutowitz March 7, 2022

Watch Kanye West Create a New Beat in Real Time in an Exclusive Outtake From Jeen-Yuhs

While Kanye West, who has changed his legal name to Ye, is best recognized today as an ultra-famous rapper and a polarizing public figure, his origins as a producer for the likes of Jay-Z, Mos...

By Cady Lang March 7, 2022

The True Story Behind HBO’s Winning Time

Warning: This story contains spoilers for Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty Sex, drugs, and basketball. HBO’s new docudrama Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, premiering March 6, is based on...

By Shannon Carlin March 6, 2022

Kogonada’s After Yang Is the Film to Watch When You're Feeling Unsettled

What is memory, exactly? We think we know, but do we really? Are memories the product of living in the moment, or can we have them even when we’ve failed to be mindful of whatever...

By Stephanie Zacharek March 4, 2022

Finding New Meaning in The Godfather at 50

It's a movie about organized crime. But it’s also a movie about fathers and sons, which gives it such enduring power.

By Stephanie Zacharek March 4, 2022

The Batman Director Explains The Film's End and Its Accidental Real-World Parallels

Warning: This story contains spoilers for The Batman Though Matt Reeves and Peter Craig wrote the script for The Batman in 2017, well before the events of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol,...

By Eliana Dockterman March 4, 2022

Working for Martha Stewart Turned This Cookbook Author Into a ‘Salad Freak’

Jess Damuck is trying to teach me how to artfully swirl yogurt at the bottom of a bowl. “Push the spoon out and rotate the bowl,” she instructs me from her home in Los Angeles....

By Eliana Dockterman March 4, 2022

On That New Villain Who Appears at the End of The Batman

Warning: This story contains spoilers for The Batman The Joker is back—again. In one of The Batman's final scenes, a foiled and jailed Riddler (Paul Dano) talks with an unseen figure in prison played by...

By Eliana Dockterman March 3, 2022

What to Read, Watch, and Listen to About Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos After The Dropout

When it comes to learning about Elizabeth Holmes and her now-defunct company Theranos, there is no shortage of source material. Holmes, who was found guilty on multiple counts of fraud in January 2022, became famous...

By Hannah Lynn March 3, 2022

10 Oscar-Nominated Movies and Performances You May Have Missed

With one glaring omission—more on that later—the Oscar nominations for 2022 may be more rich and varied than any other year in recent memory. Suddenly, it’s not so unusual to find international films nominated in...

By Stephanie Zacharek March 3, 2022

Exclusive: How Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Is Using Crypto to Fight for Equality

A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. Nadya Tolokonnikova...

By Raisa Bruner March 3, 2022

There's More to Haunted House Horror-Comedy Shining Vale Than Meets the Eye

Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear star in a haunted house horror comedy that takes a few episodes to come into its own

By Judy Berman March 3, 2022

Drive My Car Director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Likes Things to Be a Little Mysterious

While the 2022 Oscar nominations were being announced, Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi was on a flight to Germany to serve as part of this year’s competition jury at the Berlin International Film Festival. “When I...

By Tomris Laffly March 2, 2022

All the Batman Movies, Ranked

Hollywood cannot get enough of the Caped Crusader. With The Batman, Robert Pattinson becomes the eighth live-action Batman to fight Gotham's most corrupt criminals on the silver screen. His iteration is darker than any Dark...

By Eliana Dockterman March 2, 2022

The Dropout Turns A Podcast About Elizabeth Holmes Into a Hulu Series. Here's What to Know

If it feels like there have been countless projects in the works about ex-Silicon Valley prodigy Elizabeth Holmes for years, it’s because there have been. As a culture, we love watching the ultra-wealthy crumble at...

By Hannah Lynn March 2, 2022

In a Season of Subpar Scammer Shows, Only The Dropout Is the Real Thing

The Dropout wants us to understand that Elizabeth Holmes is a deeply bizarre human being. Before plunging into the saga of Theranos, the notorious multibillion-dollar startup Holmes founded that fooled the world into believing it...

By Judy Berman March 1, 2022

The 10 New Books You Should Read in March

Here are the best books to read this month, from 'Run, Rose, Run' to 'Glory'

By Angela Haupt March 1, 2022

The New Batman Is Deeply Unsettling on Purpose

Early in The Batman, our hero strides into a train station where a group of face-painted hooligans are harassing a citizen of Gotham. He starts punching their ringleader. Maybe too many times. And a little...

By Eliana Dockterman February 28, 2022

The 5 Best New TV Shows Our Critic Watched in February 2022

Criticism is, of course, always subjective—and never more so than in this particular list.

By Judy Berman February 28, 2022

The Batman Is Dark, Real Dark—Or So It Wants Us to Think

The Batman is a moderately well-made film, with some appealing performances, most notably from its star, Robert Pattinson, and from its cryptically glamorous Catwoman, Zoë Kravitz

By Stephanie Zacharek February 28, 2022

Inside the "Slow Jamz" Shoot With Kanye West

An exclusive, unreleased clip from "Jeen-Yuhs" shows a confrontational Kanye West fighting for his creative vision on the set of "Slow Jamz"

By Andrew R. Chow February 28, 2022

The Final Season of Better Things Is Pamela Adlon’s Masterpiece

If there’s a unifying theme to these final episodes, it’s that life is a continuous adolescence—and then you die.

By Judy Berman February 28, 2022

The True Story Behind Showtime’s Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber

Throughout the Showtime anthology series Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, premiering Feb. 27, the ride-share company’s former CEO Travis Kalanick (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is compared to cult leader David Koresh. Mike Isaac, the...

By Shannon Carlin February 27, 2022

Andy Garcia Brings the Gold to the Idiosyncratic Comedy Big Gold Brick

'Big Gold Brick' may be a bit too enamored with its own quirkiness

By Stephanie Zacharek February 25, 2022

Peter Dinklage Fronts a New Cyrano, With Mixed Results

'Cyrano' delivers visual grandeur, if nothing else

By Stephanie Zacharek February 24, 2022

From Super Pumped to Inventing Anna, Docudramas Are Taking Over TV. Here's Why That's Worrisome

TV's obsession with dramatizing familiar true stories is blurring the lines between fact and fiction

By Judy Berman February 23, 2022

What We Hope to Learn About Britney Spears in Her New Memoir

From her years as a teen idol to her conservatorship

By Cady Lang February 22, 2022

You're Wrong About Host Sarah Marshall Was Always Fascinated by History's Misunderstood Women. Now the Rest of Us Are Too

Sarah Marshall fell hard for Tonya Harding. “Why do you fall in love with the people you fall in love with?” Marshall asks. “If you research people for a living, you can ask the same...

By Eliana Dockterman February 22, 2022

How the Roc-A-Fella Chain Became a Symbol of Hip Hop Royalty

Kanye West is waiting for his turn. He stands back quietly, watching from the sidelines. It’s August 2002 and the producer is in his hometown of Chicago for Jay-Z’s Dynasty Tour. Backstage, he shyly introduces...

By Sowmya Krishnamurthy February 21, 2022

The Love Is Blind Season 2 Finale Is a Week Away. Let’s Make Some Predictions

Will any of the couples in season 2 of Netflix's engagement-at-first-sight show get married? And should they?

By Judy Berman and Eliana Dockterman February 18, 2022

The Automat Traces the History of a Beloved Restaurant Chain, With Mel Brooks as a Guide

First-time filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz’s delightful documentary 'The Automat' features Mel Brooks

By Stephanie Zacharek February 18, 2022

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