Posts by Emily Yoshida

  • The New Monuments Men Trailer: Just Like the A-Team, With More PhDs and Parchment

    In any movie where there’s a group of people who have to get a job done by working together and utilizing all their different skills and strengths, I always feel the most kinship with the expert/professor character. So The Monuments Men looks great to me, because its entire dirty dozen is made up of experts/professors. […]

  • American Horror Story: Coven

    Girls in Hoodies Podcast: American Horror Story: Coven, John Mayer, and Miley vs. Sinead

    We may not all have seen Gravity yet (it was a very busy weekend!) but the Girls in Hoodies are all-in on American Horror Story: Coven, the third series of Ryan Murphy and Brian Falchuk’s horror anthology franchise. There’s just something about Jessica Lange’s dance interludes that transcend the genre, and we all agree it’s […]

  • Deadmau5

    Guy Promises to Pay Deadmau5 $200,000 to Play a Bon Jovi Song, Doesn’t

    Gather round, kids, it’s time for Las Vegas Story Hour featuring Deadmau5, Bon Jovi, and $200,000. No, this isn’t some kind of IRL celebrity Indecent Proposal, but it’s just as bananas, and comes to us courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter. Long ago, in February 2011, before most of the world even knew what a sick […]

  • Clarifying Paris Hilton’s Intentions in Her New Song ‘Good Time’ Featuring Lil Wayne

    Paris Hilton: Oh I love it By beginning the song with an open-ended expression of approval, Paris creates an inviting atmosphere. Despite her reputation as an heiress and/or snob, she is informing us that she is a generally accepting person, and effectively asks us to be just as accepting of her impending song Are you […]

  • Gravity

    Career Arc: Alfonso Cuaron

    Any attempt to explain the career of director Alfonso Cuarón has always defied writerly cliché; the task is even more difficult now that that arc has taken him to space. Earthbound objects leave the pull of our atmosphere only through excessive force and a multitude of calculations, and oftentimes it seems as though Cuarón has […]

  • Lorde

    Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Breaking Bad, Bangerz, Lorde, and MasterChef Junior

    First off, an announcement: The Girls in Hoodies are on Tumblr! We’re not entirely sure what we’re going to post there yet, but if you have questions or suggestions about the pod you can let us know there. OK! We start off this week’s pod with a bit of a chat about Breaking Bad’s finale, […]

  • Miley Cyrus

    ‘A Strategic Hot Mess’: Miley Cyrus’s MTV Documentary Special

    Zero shots to Miley Cyrus, but I’m not entirely sure what else there is to say about her at this point. These are the perils of a purposeful and successful campaign (or, in Miley’s words, “a movement”) to be talked about all day every day by everyone everywhere. She did it. She won. Everything that […]

  • Lorde

    Lorde’s Pure Heroine Is a Pop Music Fountain of Youth

    Pure Heroine, the debut album released today by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde, opens with “Tennis Court,” a track previously released as a single earlier this summer. The song, a murkily winsome, ever-so-slightly chopped ballad, ruminates rather transparently on Ella Yelich-O’Connor’s rise to fame over the past year. “Pretty soon I’ll be getting on my first […]

  • Courtney Robertson

    Bachelor Winner Courtney Robertson to Release Tell-All/How-To Memoir

    You may remember Courtney Robertson — model, #winner, onetime future Mrs. Ben Flajnik — as the most hated Bachelor contestant of all time. We here in Grantland’s Reality TV department remember her as the shining, singular example of reality-show perfection, an endlessly surprising villain who also happened to pitch no-hitters week after week, or whatever […]

  • 300 Sandwiches

    Because That 300 Sandwiches Blog Is Definitely Getting Made Into a Movie

    “Our relationship has always centered on food. We met at a restaurant in Chelsea two years ago when a friend I was dining with spotted an Alexander Skarsgård look-alike. An introduction was made, and I found out he’s a computer programmer, a Taurus, obsessed with Star Wars and a very good cook.” —Stephanie Smith, a […]

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