Linda Holmes

It's perhaps fitting that during a year when Hollywood made even more films than usual about the love of film itself, the two big winners at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday night were the movies most overtly about cinephilia: The Artist, a silent black-and-white film about silent black-and-white films, ...

We serve up a few of the things we're watching for in tomorrow morning's Oscar nominations.

Miss America has seen declining ratings and a certain drain on her cultural cachet. What ever happened to the sparkle?

NBC's Thursday comedy lineup returns tonight, with an old favorite back after a hiatus and another old friend missing for the time being.

Is it pure whimsy that makes something like "Callin' Oates" appealing?

If you pick up your phone and call 719-26-OATES — at least as of this writing — you'll get a computerized woman's voice telling you what numbers to press to hear one of four Hall & Oates songs.

The ...

It's never a surprise that the Golden Globe nominations often seem as earnestly devoted to tippling as the Golden Globe ceremony itself. The surprises come from seeing which peculiar left turns the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is taking this year.

This year's nominations, which were announced this morning (the full ...

Mythbusters has tried out a lot of things in the last few years, but trying a cannonball fired through a residential neighborhood? That was an accident.

As we head into the heaviest-duty part of Oscar bait season, we're going to look at some of the performances that are getting a lot of attention this year. We begin with Michelle Williams in the Marilyn Monroe tale My Week With Marilyn.

Michelle Williams' performance in My Week With ...

We consider the disconnect between critics and audiences and the two models that often divide them.

There was a time before Jersey Shore, before Toddlers & Tiaras, before Dance Moms, when it seemed like unscripted television might be used for good. It goes all the way back to the time when the Louds were profiled on PBS's An American Family, but more recently when Pedro Zamora ...

We revisit an age-old question: Do home runs — like the six in last night's playoff game — make baseball boring?

For the first time in nearly a quarter-century, the Girl Scouts of the USA have updated their badges.

Apple is expected to unveil a new phone — or maybe a couple of them — today. We're standing by, but while we wait, what are your deepest feelings about your phone, to the degree that you would deign to have any?