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Cartoons of the Week
May 5–11, 2012
President Obama throws a shotgun wedding, plus other editorial cartoons from the week. -
Historic TIME Letters
Movies
You know there’s a problem when your average Oscar nominee and Gimli from Middle-earth are basically interchangeable
Some schools have made eye-rolling a punishable offense. But if everything is considered bullying, then nothing is
Kids shouldn’t go unless they’re mature enough and have the skills to read the books first.
Parents fear exposing their kids to violent entertainment, but I’m taking my 8-year old to see The Hunger Games. Here’s why
Pop culture consumers may be devoted, but all that adulation can turn to outrage with the slightest of provocations
It’s great that diversity is extending to the neurological, but there’s a danger in portraying those on the spectrum as inherently miraculous
There is no end to the lengths Hollywood will go to make a major theatrical release that can be summed up in a poster
I’m not sure why so many people flocked to spend hours in this world of American apartheid. For me, watching The Help was like visual waterboarding. Still, Viola Davis should win the Oscar for Best Actress
What Adele, Woody Allen and Newt Gingrich have in common and why we can’t stop romanticizing the past
Is the director of New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day trying to take over movies with the equivalent of the toilet read?
Why a movie about a dissolving marriage in Tehran might help American-Iranian relations more than any diplomacy
Princess Merida is a Pixar princess but a princess nonetheless
Why, Dr. Seuss, of course. But will a new movie adaptation of The Lorax speak to a new generation of children?
What George Clooney’s portrayal of a struggling dad in The Descendants says about modern fatherhood
Why is it that female fantasy is so derided and feared?
