Just after midnight on the West Coast, the contracts between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) expired—meaning that a deal between the two had not been reached. SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee unanimously voted to recommend a strike to its national board, which…
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When TIME set out to tackle the debate over children’s TV in late 1970, a year after Sesame Street premiered, correspondent Mary Cronin was sent to interview one of the show’s puppeteers—and ended up posing her questions directly to Oscar the Grouch instead. The story sent the message to TIME’s grownup readers that Sesame was a cultural phenomenon, and…
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Which of these two thematic elements do you suppose is the big audience draw for Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur’s man-vs.-nature thriller Beast? The story of a man striving to heal his grief-stricken family, or the sight of Idris Elba punching the daylights out of a (CGI) lion? If you chose the first option, you’re clearly a lovely, optimistic person with great…
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