Posts by Chris Ryan
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Drinking Buddies and Breaking Bad
After last week’s grunge match, Chris and I decided to mellow (gold) out a bit and take our conversation from the Discman to the cineplex. Or at least to the couch. Both of us were totally charmed and impressed by director Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies, a mostly improvised sort-of comedy that’ll be in theaters soon (and is […]
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Q&A: Filmmaker Ryan Koo on His Basketball Recruiting Movies, Amateur and Manchild
When you watch some outrageous Andrew Wiggins YouTube mixtape, you could be forgiven for not wanting to know how the sausage is made. There’s all that promise, and all that eye-popping athleticism, all at such a young age. By now, we all know that there is an underbelly to the worlds of high school and […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: The Classic Rock–ification of Alt-Rock
On this week’s pod, Andy and I go back in time to the age of empire. Or at least the age of Empire Records. It was a time when Liv Tyler was a hot, up-and-coming actress, record labels were flush with cash and making it rain on local underground music scenes, and everybody thought the […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Comic-Con News, Formulaic Blockbusters, and the Emmy Nominations
This past weekend the news was dominated by Comic-Con, Hollywood’s annual overheated orgy of fan service and flop sweat. And though neither Chris Ryan nor I attended this year — my slave Leia outfit was at the cleaners, unfortunately — a little thing like firsthand knowledge never stopped the two of us from forming strongly […]
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The Reducer: Remaking Manchester City
Are we about to witness the Blue Barcelona?
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There Is a Band Called Puig Destroyer!!!
You know what grindcore need more of? BASEBALL. You may be familiar with the stomach-churning work of a band called Pig Destroyer. Perhaps you play Terrifyer during Easter dinner, or wake up on Sundays to Phantom Limb. I sometimes like to listen to their song “The American’s Head” on a loop while doing Bikram. Anyway, […]
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Video: Watch Eagles Announcer Merrill Reese Read the Lyrics to DeSean Jackson’s Rap Song
Your browser does not support iframes. God bless America. I, personally, need to do some real self-reflection because I didn’t even know Jackson had a song, much less one with Snoop Dogg and Yung Chris. If Chip Kelly starts holding up pictures of Philadelphia rapper faces to call plays, then I am just going to […]
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These Dick’s Sporting Goods Ads by The Place Beyond the Pines Director Derek Cianfrance Are Awesome
If you’ve seen the recent Ryan Gosling–Bradley Cooper upstate New York crime epic The Place Beyond the Pines, you’ll remember one shot in particular. It’s the opening scene of the film, a long, winding tracking shot, that follows Gosling’s stunt motorcycle rider as he exits his trailer, walks across the grounds of a traveling carnival, […]
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Luis Suarez, Cesc Fabregas, and the Michael Corleone School of Transfer Rumors
I really have no inside information as to whether Arsene Wenger and Ivan Gazidis, or David Moyes and Ed Woodward, or Jose Mourinho and whatever cabal of ex–Secret Service agents are handling Chelsea’s transfers spend a lot of time watching the end of The Godfather. I imagine they have better things to do. Wenger certainly […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Summer Songs, Pacific Rim, and Orange Is the New Black
On this week’s pod, Andy and I finally get around to the serious business of breaking down 2013’s summer jams. It’s been a long time coming … so long that summer is almost over. But when you hear our debate you’ll understand why we’ve been dragging our feet. Other than the two pop disco kaiju […]
