Posts by Emily Yoshida
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Trailers of the Week: Homefront, The Double, Grudge Match, and More
Homefront (November 27) Silver: STATHAM!!! I can’t even believe this is real. My system is so over-Stathamed that I feel like I’m operating in some kind of Trainspotting-esque induced Statham haze. Let me see if I got this straight. Statham is starring in a film written and produced by Sylvester Stallone, where he goes toe-to-toe with a […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Grand Theft Auto, The Weeknd, and MasterChef
After Molly awoke the gamer community dragon this week in her criticism of Grand Theft Auto’s lack of playable female characters, we couldn’t help but continue to poke at the cranky beast on the pod, while also helping out Rockstar with some ideas for fun, violent, female-driven fantasies (Grand Theft Auto: Hooker’s Revenge, anyone?). We […]
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Warner Bros. Announces J.K. Rowling–Penned Harry Potter Spinoff Series, Unending Money for Everyone
Between 2001 and 2011, Warner Bros. released eight films with the name “Harry Potter” in the title. The franchise took over an entire decade and became the highest-grossing film series of all time, raking in $7.7 billion-with-a-B internationally. The final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, was the highest-grossing of all, with […]
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The Escape From Tomorrow Trailer Begs to Be Seen (and Sued)
After a buzzy showing at Sundance this year, it was widely assumed that Escape From Tomorrow, the debut feature from writer/director Randy Moore, would never see the light of day outside the festival circuit, but not for the same reasons that most critically admired indies suffer the same fate. For one, there was the whole […]
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Miley Cyrus's 'Wrecking Ball' Video: A Real-Time Reaction Blog
0:00 Just want to establish right at the top that I think “Wrecking Ball” is a great song and I can’t wait to watch the video for it. I generally root for Miley Cyrus and am eager to see her continue her journey of artistic and personal exploration with this video. I’ve been working for […]
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’Shipping Newsroom Season 2, Episode 8: 'Election Night, Part I'
NEW (also OVER): Jerry Dantana & Kickstarter I’m really worried we’re not going to spend any more time with Jerry Dantana this season, and that is a shame, because I feel like he’s having a lot of weird adventures in this post-journalism-career chapter of his life that we should probably get to see. Even if […]
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Trailers of the Week: RoboCop, Runner Runner, Gravity, and More
RoboCop (February 7) Silver: To this day Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 RoboCop is the archetype for satire and cinematic subversion. Written by Americans but directed by a Dutchman who depicted this country as he saw it through his foreign eyes, the film’s magnified and distorted view of our nation’s future was the ideal prism through which to view, […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: True Blood, Burning Man, and the James Franco Roast
This week, Grantland’s Rembert Browne dropped by the Hoodie Clubhouse to recap his actually-pretty-fun-sounding adventures at Burning Man, the famed festival/temporary city/art space that sets up shop every summer in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. $400 for a week without money or cell phones and 8 a.m. dubstep alarms? Sign us up! We also […]
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7 Possible Reasons Why This Unacceptably Insane Norwegian Fox-Centric Music Video Exists
Covert millenial outreach program funded by acoustic instrument manufacturers. Covert pre-K outreach program funded by international hallucinogen market. Covert anti-novelty-song outreach program funded by ME. Scandinavian answer to the Bluth chicken problem.
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Should You Believe the Benedict Cumberbatch Star Wars Rumors?
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. Before we dig into the Big Star Wars Rumor of the Week, let’s get up to speed with all the pretty much debunked casting rumors I […]
