Posts by Tess Lynch
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Afternoon Links: In Case You Are Forced to See Getaway This Weekend, Here's What You Need to Know
It is currently 83 degrees in New York, 450 degrees in Los Angeles, and 800 in many parts of the Midwest. It’s either too hot to breathe or about to thunderstorm until Tuesday. I can’t think of a better place to be this weekend than in a cold movie theater with a bunch of strangers, […]
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Afternoon Links: Here's the Most Essential 45 Seconds of The Great Gatsby 3D, Old Sport
Many of The Great Gatsby’s reviews called it out on its overuse of a certain phrase. Indiewire compared the “old sport” bombs to “when Jeremy Renner couldn’t stop saying ‘chems’ in The Bourne Legacy,” and that’s not a compliment. Exactly how many times were these two words spoken in the film? Fifty-nine, which means that […]
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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 […]
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What Would a Stefon SNL Spinoff Movie Look Like?
When Bill Hader left Saturday Night Live in May, he took Stefon — the much-beloved “city correspondent” and brainchild of Hader and former SNL writer John Mulaney (whose multi-camera comedy was passed on by NBC, but may still be floating around at Fox for a potential six-episode order) — with him. Stefon was given an […]
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Afternoon Links: The Kubrick of Cat Videographers
Happy cat video festival day — and no, I’m not going to waste an exclamation point on that. Friends, today is the day when thousands of people will congregate in Minnesota to watch cat videos together, because according to the festival’s organizers, “We wanted to make it more of a group experience instead of a […]
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Afternoon Links: The First (Speculative) Man of Steel 2 Trailer Appears, Starring Ben Batfleck and Lex Cranston
YouTube user solyentbrak1 stared into his crystal ball and asked for a glimpse of the year 2015. “You get a minute fifty-five,” said the crystal ball, “what would you like to see?” Solyentbrak1 thought about it: Perhaps he’d like to flip through a few digital front pages, check out a White House press conference or […]
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Annals of Scientology: Tom Cruise Girlfriend Tryout Era Continues
Driving past Scientology’s Celebrity Centre last weekend, it was immediately apparent that something was up: white tents, party supply rental vans, A-list (and some B- and C-list) thetans in the air. It was all in preparation for Saturday’s 44th Anniversary Gala, where celebrity Scientologists like John Travolta, Laura Prepon, Jenna Elfman, and Chick Corea gathered […]
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Afternoon Links: The VMAs Win the Internet
Well, VMAs, I have to hand it to you. You’ve hijacked all of the feeds. You’re drunk, you’re driving, you’re being tailed by police, you’re hitting telephone poles and you’re still going. I guess you’ve won. I guess we’ve been dwarfed by your enormity, your force. The fact that the Internet’s reactions to the performances […]
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Afternoon Links: The Ongoing Bat Affleck Fallout
Man, you guys (the Internet) are brutal. As soon as the word got out that Ben Affleck had been cast as the new Batman, everyone reacted with the kind of horror usually reserved for, you know, real news. Director Zack Snyder spoke of Affleck’s “acting chops” and “charm,” and you haters can only talk about […]
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You're Next, The Strangers, and Understanding the Rise of the Home-Invasion Horror Movie
There is nothing scarier than a home-invasion movie. Nothing. Especially for adults, who deal with minor home invasions on a daily basis (ants, the spooky kind of telemarketer who gets aggressive or digs your address out of the public records to creep you out, bats, flies, an object that you swore you put on the […]
