Posts by Zach Dionne
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Will Welcome Kiss and Nirvana
And your 2014 additions to Cleveland’s Primary Tourist Attraction are … Nirvana, Kiss, Hall & Oates, Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens, and Linda Ronstadt. Performers are eligible 25 years after their first single or album, and Nirvana was 2013’s only band nominated immediately upon eligibility. (1988’s “Love Buzz,” which dropped seven months before Bleach, was the […]
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Afternoon Links: Homeland, Possibly Worse Than Ever, Is More Watched Than Ever
Homeland‘s Season 3 finale, the one that, for Andy Greenwald, “revealed the show I once loved to be utterly, perhaps irreparably broken,” got the series’s highest ratings yet. 2.4 million viewers tuned in to watch mumblemumblemumble happen to mumblemumblemumble. For comparison, last December’s Season 2’s finale scored 2.3 million viewers — surprisingly consistent! Deadline also reports […]
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22 Jump Street Red-Band Trailer: Jonah Hill Only Does Movies With Flawless Trailers Now
It can be such a beautiful moment to see a trailer for the first time in theaters, remembering that this movie you knew was coming is, in fact, coming. (Or, better, learning about a movie’s existence for the first time in the moments before the main attraction.) But some trailers you’ve gotta see first at […]
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Box Office Top Five: The Hobbit Roams Back to the Top, Madea Returns
1. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, $73.7 million (opening weekend) Snow pummeled half of the U.S. this weekend, but that clearly only amped everybody up more when it came to seeing Benedict Cumbersmaug in action. Desolation came out slightly behind The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’s $84.6 million and is the fourth-highest December debut of […]
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Afternoon Links: Kevin Spacey Is Back in Menace Mode for House of Cards
Just two more months till you can spend your Valentine’s Day plowing through Netflix’s second season of House of Cards. For now, you’ve got two minutes’ worth of Kevin Spacey talking ominously about pain and suffering and butchery, accompanied by those Fincherian shots of Washington’s bars and bedrooms and offices and canines flying into swimming […]
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Ed Helms Is the Heir to ‘The Naked Gun’
Ed Helms was all set to inherit Chevy Chase’s Wagon Queen Family Truckster before the new Vacation movie got delayed. Now the ‘Nard Dawg is making a lateral move, clipping on the late Leslie Nielsen’s detective badge for Paramount’s reboot of The Naked Gun. Variety noncommittally reports that it’ll be “a new spin” on the […]
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Ha, Beyoncé Just Released an Album Called <em>Beyoncé</em> With Zero Advance Notice
In 2013, Kanye launched an album without a single and Jay Z announced, during the NBA Finals, that the record people had been asking him about for a few years was actually two weeks away. And Beyoncé just crushed both of ’em, dropping an album no low- or medium-level humans had any idea existed. “I […]
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Afternoon Links: Community: Return of the King
The new Community trailer will give you glimpses of Breaking Bad’s Jonathan Banks and Justified’s Walton Goggins. It’ll nod at the #sixseasonsandamovie campaign. It’ll even joke about Donald Glover’s impending series exit. But what it does most spectacularly is show that Dan “The Man” Harmon is back, and he’s going to run this thing like Sauron. Get ready.
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Golden Globes 2014 Nominations: American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave Get Love, Mad Men Doesn’t
This year’s batch of potential Golden Globe winners was announced at the usual ungodly hour of 5 a.m. in Los Angeles this morning, and holy Hamm’s beard are there a lot of these things. A few key notes from the film department, to start: The Wolf of Wall Street, Her, and American Hustle are all competing as […]
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Jason Segel Will Star As David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour
Who, if anyone, can you picture playing the late literary genius David Foster Wallace? Go ahead and sub in Jason Segel. The Wrap reports that James Ponsoldt (Smashed, The Spectacular Now) will soon direct an adaptation of Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace. Jesse Eisenberg will […]
