Posts by Emily Yoshida

  • Skrillex

    Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Skrillex, Real Housewives, Slow TV, and the Bechdel Test

    Let’s take a moment to admire those four topics of discussion brought together so harmoniously on this week’s podcast. So Hoodies-wave. We start off chatting about the HARD Day of the Dead electronic music festival that Molly and Emily attended over the weekend, with its wealth of amazing PLUR vibes and, of course, our patron […]

  • A-Markt Bechdel Test

    Swedish Cinemas Are Using the Bechdel Test to Measure Gender Bias in Films

    Happy Let’s Move to Scandinavia Week! (Although, as Grantland deputy editor Dan Fierman reminds me, “That’s every week.”) The Guardian is reporting that a handful of Swedish cinemas have begun employing a rating system to determine the gender bias of films, a label that will be slapped right alongside the regular content ratings to help […]

  • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

    The Saddest Thing That Happened on Last Night’s Premiere of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

    The whole thing! Ha-ha, yeah, no, seriously, I’m done with this show. Is it weird to say that I miss when the sadness was unintentional? I still consider the first two seasons of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to be among the most important happenings on contemporary reality TV, precisely because of the violent, […]

  • Only Lovers Left Alive

    Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive Finally Gives Alt-Rock Vampires Some Shine

    When I saw Sonic Youth live a few years ago (pre–Gordon Moore flameout), I distinctly remember my friend and I shouting to each other multiple times throughout their set “They are vampires [hesitant question mark?].” “They have to be vampires.” “Seriously though, they are vampires.” It made sense that a certain kind of ’90s alt-rocker […]

  • Halloween Aisle

    Your Last-Minute Pop Culture Halloween Costume Guide

    Uh-oh, weirdos! It’s Halloween! Does this news take you by surprise? Double uh-oh! I take it, then, that you haven’t spent the last two weeks driving to every last secondhand store in your town, zombie dead-eyed, searching for that one elusive lapel-less pewter grey jacket that will really bring your Sloan Sabbith getup together, waiting […]

  • Audition

    Ghouls in BOO-dies Podcast: Halloween Movies, American Horror Story, and Kanye West

    On this week’s podghast, we start off getting into the Halloween spirit by discussing our Halloween costume hopes and fears. At what age is it appropriate to ask your parents to play the Castevets in a Rosemary’s Baby group costume? Then it’s time to recap our weeks in live music — Molly and Tess’s evening […]

  • X-Men: Days of Future Past

    A Disastrous Oversight in the X-Men: Days of Future Past Trailer

    Ohhhh boy! It’s finally here! The trailer for Days of Future Past, the Generations of X-Men movies, where your O.G. cast and your hot young First Class cast band together to save the mutants of the future. My first thought is: Time has certainly passed. Do you realize that the first X-Men movie came out […]

  • Kanye West Yeezus Tour

    The Teaches of Yeezus: Kanye West’s Los Angeles Concert

    Everyone tells you about White Jesus, but nobody talks about the monster. For the first half of Kanye West’s two-hour-plus set Saturday night in Los Angeles, an abominable-goblin-esque beast with flashing red eyes lurked on the peak of the already thoroughly Instagrammed mountain that serves as the imposing centerpiece of the Yeezus tour. It would […]

  • Michael Arndt and Lawrence Kasdan

    Star Wars Script Drama: Michael Arndt Out, Lawrence Kasdan In

    This is ForceWatch, your as-needed check-in with the upcoming Star Wars reboot, including but not limited to Star Wars Episode VII. Full disclosure: Disney owns Grantland, and the rest of the universe. You may have noticed that our ForceWatch updates have been coming in few and far between in the last couple of months — this is partially […]

  • Lady Gaga

    What the Hell Is on Lady Gaga’s Head? An Investigation

    This week, Lady Gaga demonstrated that she was back in smash-single-releasing mode with the release of “Do What U Want,” and yesterday, she proved she was back in zero-sense-making-vaguely-terrifying-conceptual-outfit mode as well, debuting a brand-new headpiece outside her hotel in Berlin. What is happening here? Do we feel good about it? What is this, even? […]

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