Posts by Emily Yoshida

  • Miley Cyrus

    Miley Cyrus Is Going to Be Just Fine

    Are we supposed to be worried about Miley Cyrus? I was so utterly charmed by her Jimmy Kimmel appearance this week that I kind of forgot that there’s a whole segment of celebrity-following Americans who think she’s having some sort of crisis because she publically admits to smoking pot and refers to “dancing with molly” […]

  • Girls in Hoodies Podcast: James Gandolfini, Paula Deen, and the Mad Men Finale

    We know Grantland — and the rest of the Internet — has been filled to the brim this week with farewells to the late, great James Gandolfini (and justly so!), but the three of us didn’t want the week to go by without saying our piece about the beloved actor and the impact he had […]

  • Let’s Start Imagining New Endings for The Hills Right Now

    This is an unscientific estimate, but I’d say that the series finale of The Hills was probably the most important television moment of all time. It was the closest we as a society have ever come to letting the seemingly unstoppable giant killer cobra of reality TV begin to devour its own tail, and it […]

  • The Bling Ring

    Sofia Coppola’s Journey Into the Heart of Low-Culture Darkness

    Sofia Coppola is by no means a universally beloved filmmaker, but there were a few years there where she was pretty damn close to being one. Her first two features, The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation, captured a certain youthful zeitgeist; as a tastemaker, Coppola effortlessly spins an atmosphere of pretty, hazily lit wistfulness […]

  • Trailers of the Week: The Lego Movie, Crystal Fairy, Drinking Buddies, and More

    Silver: Emily, I truly appreciate you stepping in while our buddy Rem gallivants around trying to explain this great country of ours. I think it’s going to be fun to mutually open up and poke around each other’s geek medicine cabinets as we dissect these fun-size cine-treats. They are, after all, THE reason the Internet was […]

  • Girls in Hoodies Podcast: The Bling Ring, This Is the End, and Rape Jokes

    Once we get our obligatory Yeezus reactions out of the way (if you need Molly this summer, you can find her cruising down the PCH blasting “On Sight”), It’s time to dig into two of this past weekend’s releases, The Bling Ring and This Is the End. We take apart the privilege and problematic points […]

  • J.J. Abrams

    Here It Is, Your First Confirmed Casting Breakdown for Star Wars: Episode VII

    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. Guys, we’ve finally got some REAL casting breakdowns today! No, seriously, we were just kidding about those last ones. These are FOR REAL. […]

  • Things Thrown by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street

    Mimosa at a Bush

  • Jacen and Jaida Solo

    A Tale of Two Rumors: The Solo Twins and a Touch of Tron

    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. Two bits of possible Star Wars news are making their way around the Internet this week: one big, highly questionable one, and one […]

  • Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, and True Life

    The behooded ones are finally all in the same room again, and just in time to go super deep on the Kimye phenomenon. What starts as a conversation about the New York Times’s fascinating interview with Kanye West and the buildup to his highly anticipated sixth album, Yeezus, can’t help but be colored by the […]

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