Isaac Guzmán

Ryan Adams’ Album Prisoner Tells Story of His Divorce

There are no published accounts of exactly what shattered Ryan Adams' six-year marriage to Mandy Moore. Since announcing their separation in 2015, both have been oblique about the details, although their opposites-attract romance pointed to...

By Isaac Guzmán February 9, 2017

A Star-Studded Tribute to a Lovable Lensman

Don't blink--not even once. That's the best advice for viewers of the dazzling new documentary Harry Benson: Shoot First. Every flutter of an eyelid risks blocking out a wonder of the photographic world: Michael Jackson...

By Isaac Guzmán December 1, 2016

Leon Russell

Master of the Boogie

By Isaac Guzmán November 17, 2016

In This Battle of the Bands, Oasis Beats Iggy

With three minor hits in a 50-year career, Iggy Pop was never really a rock star, yet he has become one of rock's most beloved figures. It's not just because he's an arresting front man,...

By Isaac Guzmán November 3, 2016

Why the Brit-pop Brats of Oasis Crush Iggy and The Stooges in New Rock-doc Battle

Jim Jarmusch is too cool for school in 'Gimme Danger' as the Gallaghers flash classic bad-boy charm in 'Supersonic'

By Isaac Guzmán October 27, 2016

Mike Love Still Can’t Harmonize With the Beach Boys

The story of the Beach Boys is like a California-blond version of Amadeus, with Brian Wilson as Mozart and Mike Love as Salieri--except that Salieri had talent. Love's new memoir, Good Vibrations: My Life as...

By Isaac Guzmán September 29, 2016

The Beach Boy and the Boss: Darkness on the Edges of Two Memoirs

The big revelation in Bruce Springsteen's new memoir, Born to Run, is that the Boss gets bummed out. Big time. Which may finally help fans understand the bleak menagerie of killers and black-sheep brothers who...

By Isaac Guzmán September 29, 2016

Behind the Whirlwind Rise of Beatlemania In Eight Days a Week

When the Beatles came to America in 1964, the band and its entourage took over an entire wing on the 12th floor of New York City's Plaza Hotel, surrounded by screaming fans outside and inundated...

By Isaac Guzmán September 12, 2016

A Bear Stalks Neil Young's New Earth

The roar of the crowd. So all-enveloping and tympanum-shredding that it seems to have a life of its own. For 50 years, Neil Young has been regularly drenched by the sound, come to perceive its...

By Isaac Guzmán July 14, 2016

Paul Simon Is Still Hooked on Mystery for Essential New Set

Paul Simon is pleased that his new album, Stranger to Stranger, kicks off with a string of wry takes on our new gilded age. In "The Werewolf," a wealthy Milwaukee man has been murdered by...

By Isaac Guzmán June 2, 2016

Sounding off on Linklater's Hit Parade

Richard Linklater is back with a new comedy

By Isaac Guzmán March 31, 2016

Maurice White

Master of the groove

By Isaac Guzmán February 11, 2016

In Appreciation: David Bowie, 1947 to 2016

He was the rare artist who inspired not just adulation but imitation

By Isaac Guzmán January 14, 2016

See David Bowie on the Cover of This Week’s TIME

The musician died on Jan. 10 two days after his 69th birthday

By Isaac Guzmán January 13, 2016

The Decider

Who's worthy of the title? Follow your own path to 2015's most notable figure

By Isaac Guzmán December 10, 2015

The Holiday Movie Matrix

Looking for a good laugh, a prestige pic, something the kids will love? This handy guide to 15 more films will point you in the right direction

By Isaac Guzmán November 19, 2015

Charlie Brown’s New Look Feels Like Old Times in The Peanuts Movie

Snoopy is back—in 3-D

By Isaac Guzmán November 5, 2015

Steve Jobs Muddies Man and Myth

Reviewing the Michael Fassbender biopic

By Isaac Guzmán October 8, 2015

Colin Quinn

In Trainwreck, the new Judd Apatow--directed comedy starring Amy Schumer, Quinn plays Schumer's father as a foulmouthed, bigoted philanderer with multiple sclerosis.

By Isaac Guzmán July 16, 2015

Paul Dano

In the Brian Wilson biopic Love and Mercy, in theaters now, Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood) plays the troubled Beach Boys songwriter as a young man, while John Cusack handles his middle years.

By Isaac Guzmán June 11, 2015

Pop Music Comes to the Summer Movie Set

This summer there’s a music-based movie for every era

By Isaac Guzmán May 21, 2015

These Mad Libs Can Predict the Ending of Mad Men

How will we say goodbye to Sterling Cooper & Partners? You get to decide

By Isaac Guzmán April 2, 2015

The Culture

MADLIBS How will Mad Men end? With the first of its final seven episodes airing April 5, we'll be asking ourselves how Don, Peggy, Joan and the rest will take leave of the 1960s--and this...

By Isaac Guzmán April 2, 2015

Björk Is Your Tour Guide: An Exclusive TIME Interview for Her MOMA Retrospective

The Icelandic iconoclast tells the stories behind 12 legendary images

By Isaac Guzmán March 5, 2015

Björk’s Swan Song

MoMA welcomes the artist’s eccentric vision

By Isaac Guzmán March 5, 2015

Watch Michael Keaton's Emotional Best Actor Speech

The Birdman star thanked Alejandro González Iñárritu for being a 'true artist' and his son for being his best friend

By Isaac Guzmán January 11, 2015

American Sniper: When the Hero Dies at the End

Inspired by heroism and tragedy, Bradley Cooper offers a riveting portrayal of a Navy SEAL in American Sniper

By Isaac Guzmán November 20, 2014

Nowhere Man: Nick Cave, 20,000 Days on Earth and the Nature of the Unknowable Artist

Why you won’t see the Goth-rock king in his new rockumentary, even if you do

By Isaac Guzmán October 3, 2014

Jeff Bridges Talks 'Plorking' and The Giver

He thought the craggy old guy on the book cover would be a great role for his father, Lloyd Bridges

By Isaac Guzmán August 21, 2014

Jon Favreau’s Meals on Wheels

Tired of superheroes, the writer/director whipped up Chef, a delicious dish about food as art

By Isaac Guzmán May 8, 2014