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Davy Jones, meet Battleship. OK, so Universal Pictures’ titanic new release didn’t exactly burble to the box office’s briny depths this weekend: It only felt

Yesterday, Time’s movie critic Richard Corliss released what he considers to be “The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far).” The Artist launched the

OK, 80% of people are convinced that 90% of statistics are made up on the spot and completely useless (ba-dump-chuck). But I’ve got a few

Reading can change our lives—quite literally, according to a new study. Researchers say that literary characters can have a sizable impact on how we think

Three weeks ago, we reviewed Jason Mraz’s new album, Love Is a Four Letter Word. And apart from a couple of passing allusions to cohabitation,

A few weeks ago, Forbes magazine declared that Tony Stark—a.k.a. Iron Man—was worth a whopping $9.3 billion, making him the world’s fifth richest fictional character

Have you ever had this experience? You go to a movie with a friend, a movie that perhaps has some content that’s a bit edgy.

“Don’t listen to him, he’s just a [fill in blank here]” You may not have noticed as the world has subtly changed, but labels have

What if you walked into the Smithsonian American Art Museum and on display was … wait for it … video game art? Well, wonder no

I’m in the middle of reviewing the ABC show Scandal—a strange little drama that’s a little hard to box inside a recognizable genre (look for