Posts by Zach Dionne
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Afternoon Links: It’s Britney, Witch
Love “Thriller” but get too spooked by the Vincent Price intro that haunted your childhood nightmares? Try this new one, with Britney Spears doing a different accent and affectation — including some embarrassing duds — for each line. She also tells us “It’s Britney, witch” and does some prop work that rivals the chair dancing […]
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Kanye’s 10-Year Plan: Sistine Chapels, Amusement Parks, More General Dopeness
The New York Times‘s conversation with Kanye West felt like a major score when it showed up in June. BBC Radio 1’s addition to the Kanye Interview Archives in September seemed big, too. But now, from Kimmel to all the radio stops Kanye’s making on the Yeezus tour, it’s starting to feel like anyone can get […]
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Box Office Top Five: Bad Grandpa Dethrones Gravity
1. Bad Grandpa, $32 million (opening weekend) I finally saw Alfonso Cuarón’s 3-D IMAX adventure this weekend, hoping that throwing all my allowance at that pricey ticket would impede this fate. But the Jackass brand is too strong, with Bad Grandpa knocking Gravity off the summit just before a beautiful, original, non-sequel, non-superhero movie could […]
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Afternoon Links: Watch Breaking Bad Reimagined As an Ice Ballet
The book is often better than the movie it becomes, but rarely is the acclaimed television series better than the figure-skating routine it inspires. And inspired is the word: The passion that went into this frosty adaptation from Breaking Bad assistant editor Sharidan Williams-Sotelo is unfathomable. Someone better have a special five-act puppet show ready […]
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Robert Zemeckis Wants to Make Marwencol With Leonardo DiCaprio
Two years before he turned 40, Mark Hogancamp was beaten by five men after telling them he liked cross-dressing; in a trailer for the 2010 documentary Marwencol, Hogancamp says they “kicked my head to pieces.” He coped with the massive memory loss by constructing a town — Marwencol — of dolls and military toys, then […]
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The ‘Independence Day’ Sequel Has a Script With Will Smith and One Without Him
With an Independence Day sequel, there’s one way to feel if Will Smith is involved, and another way to feel if he isn’t. Whatever those feeling-balls look like for you, keep juggling ’em another minute, because director Roland Emmerich isn’t even close to done waffling on the subject. Deutschland’s version of Michael Bay says his […]
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Afternoon Links: Stream Arcade Fire’s New Album Right Now, Because We No Longer Wait
You may now stream Arcade Fire’s new album, Reflektor, in its entirety days before its official release on October 29. Via SoundCloud, you ask? Or perhaps an iTunes stream? Nay, ye Internet savvy — the tracks you seek may be found within but a humble YouTube clip. Yes, it’s an album-length lyric video. Enjoy.
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Tom Cruise May Pause From Saving the World to Go Like Hell (UPDATED)
The War of the Worlds star and Scientologist formerly known as Thomas Mapother IV has been on a sci-fi bender in the last year, headlining Oblivion while eyeing and/or joining Edge of Tomorrow, Our Name Is Adam, and Yukikaze. Now he’s considering a mission-less return to reality with Go Like Hell. What sounds like a […]
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Now Fifty Shades of Grey Will Star Jamie Dornan
So many names have been floated and unfloated for this adaptation of your mom’s favorite erotic novel trilogy. (No judgment. I’m just happy your mom’s still reading books.) Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam was the latest, accepting the lead for a month before bailing. Now one Jamie Dornan of Northern Ireland, male modeling, and Once […]
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Afternoon Links: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Will Take the Deliciousness Right Out of Your Expensive Beer
Do not say the words “gluten-free beer” to Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. In fact, if Triumph is at the Great American Beer Festival — where hundreds of beer aficionados convene “to see what it’s like to not drink alone” — just turn around and leave. He’ll ruin your joy in savoring “unnecessary microbrews,” and […]
