Posts by Emily Yoshida

  • Hayao Miyazaki

    Legendary Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki Retiring

    Well, this is a bummer: This Sunday at the Venice International Film Festival, right before the European premiere of his latest film, The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement from feature directing via Koji Hoshino, the president of Miyazaki’s internationally beloved production company, Studio Ghibli. Hoshino took no questions at the press conference, saying there would […]

  • Trailers of the Week: Dallas Buyers Club, We Are What We Are, The Turning, and More

    Divergent (March 21) Silver: What is going on? Is the jelly bean bowl on the inspiration coffee table that picked through that so-called creative executives in Hollywood now just simply licking their fingers for bits of the candy coating that fell off the Hunger Games–flavored bean? And then passing that off to us, assuming we don’t […]

  • Les Miserables Lawyer

    The Les Misérables Legal Drama, and Four More Surefire Musical Procedural Pitches

    Today Deadline brought us the news that Rob Thomas, creator of beloved cult TV shows Veronica Mars and Party Down, has sold Fox a script for an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, retold as a modern-day legal procedural. I’ll give you a few seconds to reread that sentence as many times as it takes […]

  • Girls in Hoodies Podcast: The Mileycast

    We hear you, dear listeners. And while it may seem a little excessive to devote not one, not two, but three podcasts to our embattled twerkaholic Miley Cyrus this week, we understand the importance of giving the people what you want. So we spent no less than 40 minutes this week dissecting the VMA performance […]

  • Sandra Bullock in 'Gravity'

    Good News: Gravity Will Be Just As Life-Changingly Perfect As You Need It to Be

    It’s been a tough year for sci-fi movie fans. Oblivion was little more than a really (really) gorgeous photo shoot from Dwell 2077, Elysium was fatally irradiated by its own social commentary, and Pacific Rim was fun, but your 7-year-old cousin probably appreciated it on a deeper level than you could. Which is why Alfonso […]

  • Grantland bracket - Mosaic Rd 4

    Best Song of the Millennium, Round 3: I Just Can’t Look, It’s Killing Me

    We can talk about yesterday all day, but I prefer to live today, and today is the day that you have to decide whether you like “Ignition” or “Hey Ya!” better. I don’t really know if you’re ready for this. I don’t know if I’m ready for this. Get properly caffeinated, grab a healthy breakfast, […]

  • Sadako From Ringu Threw the First Pitch at a Baseball Game for Some Wonderful Reason

    Korean baseball games may have been stepping it up in the “viral first pitch” department in the last month or so, but Japan just saw them their backflipping, taekwondo-ing windups and raised them an army of Sadakos. You know, the creepy zombie girl who crawls out of the TV and into your nightmares in Ringu/The […]

  • The Newsroom

    'Shipping Newsroom Season 2, Episode 7: 'Red Team III'

    I’m gonna be honest, the better this show is, the harder it is to ‘ship report it. Oh, the pitfalls of doing a recap column with a perilously fuzzy sincerity threshold! “Red Team III” was a solid hour of workplace intrigue and a relentless documentation of the cause-and-effect that led to the firing of Jerry […]

  • Trailers of the Week: Inside Llewyn Davis, Parkland, The Book Thief, and More

    Pompeii (February 21) Silver: This teaser was only 1:39, and I’m finding it a bit overwhelming to have this many non-cohesive negative thoughts spilling out of my head right now. For time and space purposes, let’s just stick to the two most prominent: I’d like to be yet another faceless Internet voice so I can relish […]

  • Reminder: Best Songs Poll Closes Tonight at 9 ET

    Already voted? Great. Still mad? Don’t worry, you’re in good company. All of our favorite mildly-dissatisfied-to-furious reader tweets, after the jump:

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