Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes appears in the following:

A Boozy New Sitcom Lowers (And Lowers) The Bar

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Romantic comedy, like some of the activities in which it ideally culminates, is something too many people believe they can do well with little effort. For example, writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore had enormous success with The Hangover in 2009, which is one of those movies people are talking ...

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Bob And Linda Read Internet Movie Reviews, Part Seven: Dallas Buyers Club

Tuesday, February 25, 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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A New Shine On Old Problems: How to Clean The Nastiest Stains

Monday, February 24, 2014

In a spirited book of cleaning and housekeeping advice, Jolie Kerr solves cleaning problems big as cars and small as tweezers; ordinary as grime and embarrassing as stains can get.

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Oh, Lady Edith

Sunday, February 23, 2014

[This piece contains information about the plot of Downton Abbey, up to and including Sunday night's fourth-season finale.]

Another season of Downton Abbey has come to a close, and once again, Lady Edith is unlucky. Unlucky in love, unlucky in life. She's unluckier than Bates, and he went to jail ...

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If You Like The Old 'About A Boy,' You May Not Like The New 'About A Boy'

Thursday, February 20, 2014

If you're familiar with the Nick Hornby book or the 2002 film of About A Boy, you will find that what has been kept in the new TV adaptation, coming Saturday night in a preview to NBC, is the clichéd skeleton of the story: a lazy, glib bachelor befriending the ...

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Bob And Linda Read Internet Movie Reviews, Part Six: 'Nebraska'

Thursday, February 20, 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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Bob And Linda Read Internet Movie Reviews, Part Five: Philomena

Tuesday, February 18, 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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The Beauty Of Spilling Your Sad Teenage Guts

Monday, February 17, 2014

I read Pam Ribon's Notes To Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share In Public in a few sittings, but the longest stretch I consumed where one should ideally read this book: in a bubble bath. The calming atmosphere is good for the anxiety that comes from seeing a woman ...

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Tiny Plastic Men And The Teenage Blues

Friday, February 14, 2014

We're encased in ice as we prepare to send you this show, but when we taped it, our hearts were warm from enjoying The Lego Movie, also known as "I'm sure it's good, but is it really that good?" We'll try to get to the bottom of whether it really ...

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Bob And Linda Read Internet Movie Reviews, Part 4: 'Gravity'

Thursday, February 13, 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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How Indie Star Greta Gerwig Met Her New CBS Sitcom

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

News broke last night that Greta Gerwig, most recently admired for Frances Ha, which she starred in and co-wrote with director Noah Baumbach, will star in (and co-produce) a comedy pilot for CBS.

Not just any comedy pilot, though: Gerwig is working on How I Met Your Dad, ...

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Bob And Linda Read Internet Movie Reviews, Part 3: 'Wolf Of Wall Street'

Tuesday, February 11, 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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The Beatles, As America First Loved Them

Sunday, February 09, 2014

It's been 50 years since The Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan, to an audience of screaming, hair-pulling, ecstatic (in the classic sense) teenage girls. Cutes in suits, you might call them, like (and, of course, nothing like) countless other bands of the time that wore skinny ties and shared ...

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Jimmy Fallon Exits Stage (Just) Right

Saturday, February 08, 2014

It's hard to view Friday night's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon as a true farewell, since all Fallon is doing is getting the ultimate promotion to The Tonight Show. And he's taking everybody with him.

And yet it is an ending. It's an ending to a five-year tenure that started ...

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Navigating Kitsch and Controversy At The Opening Ceremonies

Saturday, February 08, 2014

One hopes, at an event of nebulous actual significance like the opening ceremonies of any Olympics, for a single moment that can tease out the specific weirdness of that event. You need something, some nut, some bit, that can demonstrate to people in a single flash what it was like ...

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Watching Sports, Philip Seymour Hoffman, And Poisoned Wells

Friday, February 07, 2014

On this week's show, we turn to a topic near and dear to exactly half of our hearts: the wide world of sports. Glen explains how he came to feel the same way about sports that he feels about Fred Basset. Stephen envisions an actor breaking his leg and the ...

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Here's Why You Should Hashtag Your #Olympics2014 Tweets

Friday, February 07, 2014

One of the best things about Twitter is the hashtag. Not the ironic, silly hashtag, but the functional hashtag. The hashtag that becomes a kind of metadata.

The hashtag, that is, that allows people to efficiently ignore you.

Twitter doesn't make a big thing about it because they don't yet ...

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The Two Kinds Of Fairness, As Explained By 'Top Chef'

Thursday, February 06, 2014

Reality shows, at their best, give you little flashes of understanding, often in spite of themselves. A great example came around Wednesday night, as Top Chef crowned its winner.

[Hey: INFORMATION ABOUT THE FINALE AHEAD, in case that wasn't obvious. Stop reading if you're still planning on watching and you'd ...

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Song And Dance: Of Course Clay Aiken Is Running For Congress

Thursday, February 06, 2014

Yesterday, we learned that Clay Aiken, who lost to Ruben Studdard at the end of the second season of American Idol way back in 2003, will be running for Congress in North Carolina's 2nd District.

Let's all smirk about what the world is coming to if an American Idol runner-up ...

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Bob And Linda Read Internet Movie Reviews, Part 1: American Hustle

Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Best Picture nominees are a funny thing: They start out as fascinating pieces of work, and by the time the Oscars roll around, the commentary surrounding them has often turned into something less interesting. Something that boils down to either "Good!" or "Not that good!" This year, we wanted to ...

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