Posts by Emily Yoshida
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Trailers of the Week: The Counselor, Ender's Game, Muppets Most Wanted, and More
Silver: Emily, given the seemingly endless barrage of trailers this week, I think it’s best if we break the glass and employ the “one-sentence review” policy so as not to miss anything. I, of course, will fail miserably. But not for lack of trying. Yoshida: Firing up my pith generator as we speak. Let’s do […]
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Seth MacFarlane’s Cosmos: When Good Intentions and Huge Egos Collide
Last month at Comic-Con, Fox premiered the trailer for Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, a “sequel” to Cosmos: A Personal Journey, the 1980 PBS documentary series created by husband-and-wife team Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. The reboot had been announced last summer and prompted a fair amount of head-scratching, not because of its concept — Cosmos […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Talking Sex and the City With Special Guests Tanlines
This week we opened up the hermetically sealed doors of the HoodieDome and welcomed our first podcast guests, Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm of the band Tanlines, to talk about — what else? — Sex and the City. Specifically, we wanted to talk about the show’s peculiar place in the Golden Age of Television (as […]
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‘Shipping Newsroom Season 2, Episode 4: ‘Unintended Consequences’
Sometimes this show makes me feel dumb. Not because of any lack of education (I went to UCLA) or basic understanding of the hot-button 2011 issues that ACN is facing, but because I can’t listen fast enough. The moment the conversation turns to anything other than love and emotions, everyone goes all Micro Machines on […]
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Trailers of the Week: American Hustle, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, All Is Lost, and More
Insidious: Chapter 2 (September 13) Silver: There’s been a lot of chatter around the recent financial success of films like The Conjuring, Sinister, and The Purge,, but what’s missing in all the chatter is the fact that these films are actually really good. And in some cases really, really good. The downside is that when […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Orange Is the New Black, Rating TV Theme Songs, and More
Appropriately, for a discussion of a show that is about hitting rock bottom and finding a way to thrive there, the Girls in Hoodies recorded this podcast from the plushly carpeted floor of the Grantland studio. Maybe it was our Pavlovian subconscious telling us that we were about to have some quality circle time or […]
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Here’s a Video of Matt Damon Playing Charades While Stroking a Chihuahua on Univision
Elysium opens August 9 in theaters everywhere. (h/t Vulture)
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Kathleen Kennedy Gives Us Hope That Episode VII Won’t Be Terrible, and More From Star Wars Celebration: Europe
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 already should know that me casually filing this update on a sleepy Tuesday afternoon instead of busting through the doors of Grantland HQ on Monday […]
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‘Shipping Newsroom Season 2, Episode 3: ‘Willy Pete’
Will McAvoy: Don’t mock this. Charlie Skinner: It’s literally impossible not to. STEADY: Will & Mackenzie (Willkenzie) This was one of those weeks in which Mac goes back to caring a lot about whether or not Will still loves her — and I’m not just talking about a brief, reflective furrowed brow before bedtime, I’m […]
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Trailers of the Week: Gravity, Snowpiercer, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and More
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (November 22) Silver: Second films in trilogies (see side note) have a distinct advantage over their predecessors and followers. They don’t need to establish a world, a tone, a visual, a style, or characters — they simply can start a story. They also don’t need to lead a narrative to […]
