Posts by Emily Yoshida
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And Your First Non-Original-Trilogy Casting News for Star Wars Episode VII Is …
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. Ever since J.J. Abrams was given the keys to the future of the Disney/Lucasfilm cultural property know as Star Wars, every subsequent piece of […]
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Watch a Bear Try to Eat a Tiny Camera
If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like to be mauled by a bear in the wilds of Alaska, you have technology and the BBC nature show The Great Bear Stakeout to thank. While guiding a filming crew in the Alaska Peninsula, Brad Josephs, a “naturalist interpreter specializing in bear biology and ecology,” placed a […]
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Five Questions on the American Idol Season Finale: Notes From a Synch-ing Ship
Whatever doesn’t deafen you makes you stronger: Grantland’s Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have returned, bowed but not broken, to tackle another season of American Idol. Their journey is now at an end, a winner has been crowned, the confetti has fallen — but the biggest questions of all are still on […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Idol, Gatsby, and Drunk Gwyneth Paltrow
It’s been a banner week for everyone’s favorite nightshade-averse Hollywood superstar, Gwyneth Paltrow. Great things happen when she mixes her vino with her kale juice and goes on Australian radio to talk about how bad the Met Ball sucked (among other topics), and we’re itching like a post-cleanse rash to talk about how it affects […]
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Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories: A Track-by-Track Feel-Along
This Monday, Daft Punk made their fourth studio album, Random Access Memories, available to stream for free in its entirety on iTunes. Grantland’s Steven Hyden will be posting a proper critical review of Random Access Memories next week, but staff writer Rembert Browne and editor Emily Yoshida have been waiting for this moment all their lives and needed […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: The Great Gatsby 3D and the State of Cinema
Last week, Steven Soderbergh bemoaned the state of the film industry during a talk at the San Francisco International Film Fest, and this week, the Girls in Hoodies respond to some of his arguments. We use examples from a so-far-underwhelming summer movie season and Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming The Great Gatsby 3D as fodder, and probably […]
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Five Questions on American Idol: Are All Four Judges Getting Fired?
Whatever doesn’t deafen you makes you stronger: Grantland’s Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have returned, bowed but not broken, to tackle another season of American Idol. With a potential top-to-bottom shakeup on the horizon, are these the last days of Idol as we know it? One Who gave the best performance of […]
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You Should Probably Sit Down Before Watching This Star Trek: The Next Generation Supercut
Reason no. 289 why Roddenberry Star Trek will always be the one true Star Trek: It’s 2013, and we’re just now realizing how next-level Commander Riker’s sitting game was. (h/t Topless Robot)
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Overplayed Song of the Week: Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX, ‘I Love It’
Weeks on Chart: 13 Peak: No. 9 on Billboard’s Hot 100, this week Current Radio Play Frequency: No. 10 on KIIS-FM’s Playlist YouTube Hit Count: 16,277,202 at time of publication [Lyrics] I’ve been trying to figure out if there’s anything important to say about “I Love It” for about a month now, other than the interesting footnote that Lena Dunham now […]
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The National Played Just One Song at MoMA … for Six Hours
This weekend, notable bummer band The National took the stage at PS1 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and proceeded to engage in a performance so bold and daring in its sadsackery that it transcended the limitations of rock and roll and became high art. Here you can watch nine minutes of […]
