Posts by Zach Dionne

  • Sleigh Bells

    We Went There: Sleigh Bells as Senseis of Self-Destruction at Terminal 5

    Before lining up to check my coat on Friday at Terminal 5 in New York, I peek down over the balcony. A packed floor stares at a purposefully weird act called Doldrums. No one in the crowd’s doing anything except pointing their faces in the right direction. It’s a bad omen — I’m not here […]

  • Brian on Family Guy

    Death of Brian: Family Guy Kills the Dog

    In a successful bid to break into the SPOILER ALERT!! market, Family Guy offed Brian, the Griffins’ pet dog/intellectual. The character had appeared in every episode of the show’s 12 seasons. Unlike the advance warning The Simpsons gave for an impending death this year, Family Guy seems to have surprised its fans. Not only was Brian’s […]

  • Hunger Games

    Box Office Top Five: Catching Fire Is the Year’s Second-Biggest Opening

    1. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, $161.1 million (opening weekend) This has been preordained to win since it got its release date sometime in 2012. But it was never a sure bet that Catching Fire would secure the best November opening ever and fall second only to Iron Man 3’s $174.1 million opening for 2013. […]

  • Afternoon Links: Jennifer Lawrence Has No Time for Jon Stewart’s Nonsense

    Jennifer Lawrence swung by The Daily Show on Thursday night. You’d think she’d be on autopilot at the end of a no doubt grueling press tour for Catching Fire, but that would require forgetting that she’s Jennifer Lawrence. Being J-Law, she told Jonathan Stewart he’s “so weird,” then rubbed hand sanitizer all over his desk. […]

  • JRR Tolkien

    After Six Trips to Middle-earth, J.R.R. Tolkien Will Get His Own Movie

    The biopic, in the early developmental stages at Fox Searchlight, will detail the moments that led the author to create The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. At first it sounds like a lot of shots of a guy sitting in a study, scrawling and smoking a pipe, but there’s plenty of mid-century English drama to […]

  • Afternoon Links: Arcade Fire Has Another Treat for You

    Arcade Fire’s “Afterlife” video starts with a sad single papa feeding his sons supper. It moves to bedtime, then all over the place, beautiful and melancholy throughout its black-and-white journey. Emily Kai Bock, who’s worked with Grimes and Grizzly Bear, wrote and directed the clip.

  • Batman vs. Superman

    Here Are the Bad Titles Zack Snyder Might Mistakenly Use Instead of Batman vs. Superman

    Comic-Con revealed many things, chief among them the announcement that Batman would appear in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel sequel. The term Batman vs. Superman began floating around soon after, thanks largely to screenwriter David Goyer. But it wasn’t until Ben Affleck got cast that we really needed something to call this beast other than […]

  • James Stewart, center, is shown in the last scene of Frank Capra's 1947 film "It's A Wonderful Life". Hollywood columnist Army Acherd reported the actor died, Wednesday, July 2, 1997 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 89.

    The It’s a Wonderful Life Sequel Might Be Dead Already

    On Monday, Variety told the world to expect a sequel to 1946’s It’s a Wonderful Life in theaters in time for Christmas 2015. The New York Post’s Lou Lumenick, meanwhile, told everyone to chill, saying things like “not gonna happen” and “rights hopelessly tangled.” So it’s been hard knowing what’s what — especially when it’s unclear […]

  • Gravity

    Afternoon Links: Watch the Gravity Spinoff Short About Sandra Bullock’s Distress Call

    Gravity SPOILERS herein, if you actually think the experience of watching the most immersive space movie ever can be ruined with a little plot point. So! The part where Sandra Bullock totally looks like a goner and finally gets someone on the radio, only to find the person doesn’t speak English? That dude was Aningaaq, […]

  • Bill Murray

    Bill Murray Joins HBO’s Miniseries Adaptation of Olive Kitteridge

    In this dawn or mid-morning of Bill Murray’s Late Career, the man’s been happy to dabble. He played FDR, he did a Wes Anderson movie about stop-motion animal figurines, he cameoed in John Goodman’s Amazon pilot. So there’s no reason not to give an HBO miniseries a whirl, especially when it’s Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, […]

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