Linda Holmes

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'Veronica Mars' And The Bad Caterpillar Theory

Monday, March 17, 2014

The new Veronica Mars movie is unsatisfying in part because it continues a juvenile approach to a love story that's no longer about adolescence.

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Step Right Up: 20 Very Silly Inventions Actually Pitched On 'Shark Tank'

Friday, March 14, 2014

Shark Tank is a startlingly popular Friday-night show where people who have invented various strange things (and sometimes cool things) bring them to a group of rich people and beg for an investment. Some of the products make sense, some are sort of genius, and some are ... well, some ...

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: The Naked And The Nerds

Friday, March 14, 2014

A while ago, we devoted a segment to the matter of profanity, and now, as summer follows spring and spring (supposedly) follows winter, we are moving on to the issue of nudity. When is it decorative? When is it exploitation? And how would they see all of this ...

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A Peek At The New Season Of 'Orange Is The New Black'

Thursday, March 13, 2014

We don't know a whole lot about the upcoming season of Orange Is The New Black, but Netflix put out three images today that might give you something to at least chew on. It certainly appears that we'll be picking up where we left off, in a very immediate sense. ...

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Hal Douglas, The Voice Of Many, Many Movie Trailers, Dies At 89

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Movie trailers have changed a lot, and if you show a teenager now a trailer from (for instance) 1997, it will seem almost comedically anachronistic and corny.

But this is how, for many years, we got excited about the movies. And these growly narrations — which were recently the subject ...

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Every Reality Show Is A True Story, And Other 'Bachelor' Lessons

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Every reality show is an entirely true story.

It is not the story that it claims to be — the story of two tribes building a new civilization, the story of America's search for its next superstar — but it is a true story nevertheless. It is, or at least ...

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Part Beauty, Part Hooey: That's A Wrap On 'True Detective'

Monday, March 10, 2014

[This piece contains a detailed discussion of Sunday night's True Detective finale. If you haven't seen it and you plan to see it and you don't want to know what happens, stop reading.]

[Seriously, information ahoy.]

Spoiler alert: The dirty-faced, crazy-talking, disheveled impoverished guy did it.

Because we are talking ...

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: The Oscars, 'Drag Race' And Shut-Ins Edition

Friday, March 07, 2014

When we taped this show on Tuesday, we had all had quite a lot of the Oscars, to be honest. And we secretly suspect that with the all-out pile-on that continues for months before the ceremony, you might not require an all-out assault on the whole thing. So this week, ...

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A First Look At Quvenzhané Wallis In The New 'Annie'

Thursday, March 06, 2014

Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis plays the singing and dancing moppet opposite Jamie Foxx in a new version of Annie. In the trailer, she assures us that the sun will still come out tomorrow.

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David Cameron Calls, And The Internet Answers

Thursday, March 06, 2014

Oh, Internet.

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Yes, I Added A Pageant Coach To My Dream Team Of TV Advisers

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

When you watch a lot of silly television, one of the things you learn is that there are all kinds of people who are theoretically Here To Help.

They are there to help you dress better, decorate your house, get in shape, feel good about yourself, raise your kids, cook ...

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Oh, Donna: On Loving One Of Television's Great Women

Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Parks And Recreation features one of the most impeccable collections of characters ever assembled for one comedy. To a person, they are funny, human, beautifully realized, individual, and — perhaps most important — lovingly rendered.

But as much as I love everyone on that show, I will admit that I ...

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Stages Of Winter Rage

Monday, March 03, 2014

[The following is a purely speculative, hypothetical story of winter. It corresponds to no actual meteorological data.]

October 20: Eeeeeeee! Snow in the forecast! Eeeeeeee!

October 21: I saw flakes! Here's an Instagram of flakes out my window! You can't really see them, but they're there, I promise! Flakes!

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Oscars 2014: Low On Laughs, But A Great Speech Or Two

Monday, March 03, 2014

Sunday night's Oscar ceremony was overlong and underfunny — though it did pick up here and there, with heartfelt acceptances and a few notable flubs.

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Oscar Spoiler Alert: What We Already Know About The Winners

Sunday, March 02, 2014

Sunday night's Oscars will include a Best Picture race that's apparently narrowed to three films: 12 Years A Slave, Gravity, and maybe American Hustle. Matthew McConaughey for Best Actor? Maybe. Or Leonardo DiCaprio? What about Cate Blanchett, a seeming shoo-in despite Meryl Streep delivering, in August Osage County, the biggest, ...

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Nine Best Picture Nominees, Many Funny Faces, And A Couple Of Bonus Features

Saturday, March 01, 2014

Well, the Oscars are Sunday night, and that means it's time to look back at our video series in which the wonderful Claire O'Neill and Kainaz Amaria of NPR Visuals put together some comments left about each Best Picture nominee on Rotten Tomatoes, and Bob Mondello and I read whatever ...

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What The Oscars Mean, And What They Don't

Friday, February 28, 2014

The Oscars are coming up this weekend, but do they matter anymore? Bob Mondello talks about why the Oscars frustrate him, and we search — maybe in vain — for meaning.

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Bob And Linda Read Internet Movie Reviews, Part Nine: '12 Years A Slave'

Friday, February 28, 2014

This year, we wanted to look back at the nine best picture nominees and remind ourselves — and you — that reactions to film are complicated, hilariously varied and wonderfully individual. So we looked over every comment for every nominee at RottenTomatoes.com, and we brought you some of our favorites.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: The Oscars Omnibus Of 2014

Friday, February 28, 2014

Sunday night, the Oscars will come around once again, and we'll be watching. But before we do, we got together with All Things Considered film critic, silly video partner, emoticon learner and all-around great pal Bob Mondello to talk about all nine of the Best Picture nominees: American ...

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Hurts So Good: Getting A Kick Out Of A Movie Punch

Thursday, February 27, 2014

My favorite parts of Non-Stop, in which Liam Neeson adds airplane bathrooms to the list of things out of which he has beaten the snot, are the silliest parts. The slow-motion parts. The gravity-defying parts. The parts where everybody in the audience cracks up, but not unkindly.

I ...

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