Posts by Zach Dionne
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‘Magic: The Gathering: The Movie’
20th Century Fox has bought the rights to Magic: The Gathering, probably the only fantasy-based card game addictive and sprawling enough to get grown folks to happily spend all their money and live in their parents’ basements forever, cultivating unbeatable decks and alienating non-Magic-playing friends. (You know who you are, buddy.) The plan is to […]
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2014’s First Kanye-versy Is Here, and It Involves Violence
Here’s a bewildering new report erupting from Mount TMZ: An 18-year-old white male, possibly helping Kim Kardashian enter a doctor’s office as paparazzi hounded her, began hollering a variety of intense epithets at the photogs, including the n-word. Kim attempted correcting the young man’s improper nomenclature and was allegedly met with the following: “Fuck you, […]
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Johnny Depp Might Be Marvel’s Doctor Strange
Captain Jack Sparrow, no matter how perfectly suited to Halloween costumery, just isn’t a superhero. So 50-year-old Johnny Depp needs to hustle up and crack the comic book movie market while he can still play a hero rather than an aging mentor. Fortunately Marvel has got just the part. “A well-connected source informed me tonight […]
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Afternoon Links: The Newsroom Renewed for a Third and Final Season
Days after HBO announced that Boardwalk Empire‘s fifth season would be its last, The Newsroom has also trained its sights on the end of the road. The show’s third season, bowing this fall, will officially be Aaron Sorkin and Will McAvoy’s last chance to bluster righteously and Coldplayishly. Just to keep things spicy, The Office‘s onetime […]
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Tarantino’s New One Is Called ‘The Hateful Eight,’ and It Could Star Bruce Dern and Christoph Waltz
Quentin Tarantino’s working hard to make sure he ends up as famous for gut-punch titles as he is for indulgent banter and splashy violence. The Hateful Eight is the latest in the bunch, joining thunderbolts like Inglourious Basterds, Death Proof, and Kill Bill. It’ll be a Western, following Django Unchained and marking the first genre […]
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Box Office Top Five: Wahlberg Wins It With ‘Lone Survivor’
1. Lone Survivor, $38.5 million (first weekend in wide release) Either the movie stat experts are total assassins at what they do or new movies really are breaking old records all the time. Lone Survivor’s new claim to nerdy number-crunching fame is that the film starring Mark Wahlberg is the second-highest January opening of all […]
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Afternoon Links: Aaron Sorkin and Courtney Love Are Reportedly Seeing One Another Romantically
The New York Post has it on good, secretive, exclusive, unnamed source–y authority that Aaron Sorkin and Courtney Love “have been seeing each other for a few months while she’s been staying in Los Angeles at the Chateau Marmont.” Oh, dear. What’s going on there, do you wonder, in, like, the attraction department? “He is […]
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Next Season Will Be the Last for ‘Boardwalk Empire’
Boardwalk Empire has been an endeavor in patience-testing for much of its four seasons — to the point where Alex Pappademas campaigned for the show to become Boardwalk Vampire. And then the end of Season 4 happened, and it was unexpectedly stupendous. “There’s a sense of loss and menace and desire here that for too […]
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Afternoon Links: Sherlock’s Probably Sticking Around for Awhile
When your seasons (OK, “SERIES”) are three episodes long, they tend to end before you’ve even sat down. So Cumberbitches and Sherlock aficionados will be pleased to know that the BBC show’s fourth and fifth seasons are already plotted out. “So we have got plans — but our plans don’t tend to be ‘Let’s blow […]
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Dennis Rodman Acknowledges That Booze and International Basketball Diplomacy Probably Don’t Mix
Dennis Rodman gifted YouTube with one for the ages on Tuesday, and now North Korea’s favorite former NBA star is feeling the noxious hangover of regret. “I want to apologize,” Rodman said in a publicist’s email to the Associated Press. “I take full responsibility for my actions. It had been a very stressful day. Some […]
