Karen Valby Karen Senior Writer Entertainment Weekly and EW.com Karen is a Senior Writer for EW Time Inc.
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Karen Valby

Senior Writer, Entertainment Weekly and EW.com

Karen Valby is a Senior Writer for EW.

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Book Review We Need New Names
by Karen Valby | May 15, 2013

Young Darling's world in Zimbabwe is a ravaged one, but her life there is rich despite the deprivation…

Inside Movies 'Atonement' director Joe Wright a contender for coveted 'Fifty Shades of Grey' gig -- Report
by Karen Valby | May 10, 2013 10:37 AM

British director Joe Wright has emerged as a favorite to direct the adaptation of E L  James' sex-soaked…

Inside TV ATX Television Festival: Vote for your favorite 'Friday Night Lights' episode to watch under the stars
by Karen Valby | May 07, 2013 09:50 AM

Meet me in Austin, y'all. Seriously now: It was announced this morning that the ATX Television Festival will…

Book Review The Woman Upstairs
by Karen Valby | Apr 24, 2013

From its opening lines, Claire Messud's new novel, The Woman Upstairs , grips like a choke hold. The…

Book Review Maya's Notebook
by Karen Valby | Apr 10, 2013

Nineteen-year-old Maya is sent by her fiercely devoted grandmother to live in an idyllic, insular island town off…

Movie Preview We're the Millers
by Karen Valby | Apr 03, 2013

Family road-trip movie! Well, not quite. Jason Sudeikis plays a small-fry dope dealer who gets in over his…

Movie Preview The Heat
by Karen Valby | Apr 03, 2013

Sandra Bullock will always remember Melissa McCarthy exploding onto the scene, or rather into the sink, in 2011's…

Movie Preview The Bling Ring
by Karen Valby | Apr 03, 2013

Harry Potter star Emma Watson trashes out in hair extensions and ''stolen'' Herve Leger for her based-on-a-true-story new…

Movie Preview The East
by Karen Valby | Apr 03, 2013

Inspired by their summer spent squatting with various anarchist collectives, indie-film collaborators Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling (…

Inside TV 'Boy Meets World' cast to reunite in Austin: ATX Television Festival line-up announced -- EXCLUSIVE
by Karen Valby | Mar 28, 2013 11:00 AM

Austin, Texas, the festival capital of the world! This morning the ATX Television Festival (June 6-9) revealed exclusively…

TV Recap 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' season finale recap: Checkmate Bitch, then Reunion Part 1
by Karen Valby | Mar 26, 2013 09:48 AM

Adrienne signs out, Lisa and Ken restore Brandi's belief in love, and then tempers flare at the Reunion.

TV Recap 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' season finale recap: Checkmate Bitch, then Reunion Part 1
by Karen Valby | Mar 26, 2013 09:48 AM

Adrienne signs out, Lisa and Ken restore Brandi's belief in love, and then tempers flare at the Reunion.

PopWatch Tilda Swinton, Best Actress in a Box
by Karen Valby | Mar 24, 2013 10:06 AM

Tilda Swinton, impossibly cool Oscar-winning actress, David Bowie video muse, fashion renegade, general Scottish bad-ass, will sleep in…

PopWatch The solitary pleasures of TV binge-watching: 'Friday Night Lights' down, 'The West Wing' on deck
by Karen Valby | Mar 23, 2013 11:21 AM

This February, I watched all 76 episodes of Friday Night Lights. Somehow—despite the facts that I live in…

News and Notes Supersize South By Southwest
by Laura Hertzfeld, Melissa Maerz, Ray Rahman, Karen Valby | Mar 22, 2013

From music to movies to tech, the festival has gotten bigger than ever. Here's what had us buzzing.

Inside Movies Melissa McCarthy talks casting Susan Sarandon in directorial debut, 'Tammy'
by Karen Valby | Mar 21, 2013 12:21 PM

Melissa McCarthy tells EW that Susan Sarandon is close to signing on to play her Grandma in Tammy,…

TV Recap 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' recap: Vodka Shots Fired
by Karen Valby | Mar 19, 2013 09:12 AM

Adrienne and Paul announce their separation and Faye acts the snide fool at Lisa's housewarming party

Inside Movies SXSW: A night out with Alexander Skarsgard and the cast of 'The East' -- EXCLUSIVE
by Karen Valby | Mar 18, 2013 01:57 PM

The East, a new high-stakes, big-ideas eco-thriller starring Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgard, and Ellen Page, closed out the…

Inside Movies SXSW: Green Day presents world premiere of doc 'Broadway Idiot'
by Karen Valby | Mar 15, 2013 06:34 PM

Perhaps the biggest standing ovation given by Paramount Theater audiences all week at SXSW was when Green Day…

Inside Movies SXSW: 20-year-old director premieres her fourth (!) feature film -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
by Karen Valby | Mar 15, 2013 02:22 PM

For years, Emily Hagins has been the kid in the room. The Austin native directed her first feature-length…