Posts by Zach Dionne

October 23, 2013
Norah Jones and Billie Joe Armstrong Remade a 55-Year-Old Everly Brothers Album

Green Day’s core fan base, wherever it resides in 2013, might not spend a lot of time with Norah Jones’s catalogue. While I’m generalizing, let’s presume the same for Jones fans regarding ’90s pop-punk acts. But there’s no guesswork when I say that within the Come Away With Me/Dookie Venn diagram, there’s not even an […]
October 23, 2013
George Clooney’s The Monuments Men Delayed to 2014

What a fine year it has been for movie delays. Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, originally slated for November 15, was almost bumped to 2014 before landing on Christmas Day. Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake slid from this Friday to Thanksgiving. Steve Carell and Channing Tatum’s Foxcatcher moved to 2014; so did Nicole Kidman’s […]
October 22, 2013
Afternoon Links: Sarah Silverman’s Dead Pilot Now Lives Online

Sarah Silverman was so close to having an NBC sitcom last year. It was called Susan 313 and it would’ve followed Silverman rebounding from a 10-year relationship. (Sound familiar?) The pilot featured excellent comedian Tig Notaro, an impeccable Jeff Goldblum cameo, and stripping. And it’s now online even though it never made it to TV! […]
October 22, 2013
Five Casting Directions the Revived John Belushi Biopic Could Take

John Belushi’s life story has been rescued from the clutches of Todd Phillips and a big-budget destiny at Warner Bros. — sorry, Todd; apologies, big-budget movies — and delivered into the arms of indie nourishment it deserves. Screenwriter Steve Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Weather Man) is now doubling as director. He […]
October 22, 2013
Kanye Rented AT&T Park to Propose to Kim Kardashian

Back in June, The Triangle’s Jonah Keri ranked AT&T Park as the second-best ballpark experience in Major League Baseball. But back in June, the park was merely home to the San Francisco Giants and some nice views of the bay, not to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s legacy of love and public courtship–via–ass shots. Now […]
October 21, 2013
Afternoon Links: Arnold Is Now Happy to Do Kindergarten Cop Quotes for Your Amusement

There’s no way Lionsgate is happy with Escape Plan‘s anemic debut, but we the people have received a golden treasure attached to the unnecessary movie’s existence: seven new videos on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s YouTube channel. They’re all clips of the Governator reinterpreting some of his classic lines via Reddit request, and they are genuinely Schwarztacular.
October 21, 2013
When Yeezus Met Jesus, and Everything Else You Need to Know About the First Night of Kanye West’s Tour

Kanye West’s Yeezus tour is live. It launched Saturday in Seattle, and various corners of the Internet have it pegged as a spectacle gigantic enough to possibly overshadow the Watch the Throne tour in arena hip-hop history. Collected here is a brief dossier to allow you to fool acquaintances into believing you were hard-core enough […]
October 21, 2013
Box Office Top Five: Gravity Stays on Top, Carrie Falls Flat

1. Gravity, $31 million (last week: no. 1; $170.5 million cumulative) Alfonso Cuarón’s weekend-movie-contest winning streak is untouchable right now. Gravity isn’t just stronger than Tom Hanks anymore — it’s stronger than Hanks, Carrie White, and two crusty, modestly beloved sexagenarians all combined. The film is by no means free-falling, either, having launched to $55 […]
October 18, 2013
Afternoon Links: All the Local Newswriters Reporting Mike Myers’s Impending Fatherhood Got Lazy on the Same Day

Imagine announcing you’re pregnant and getting about 50 of the exact same congratulatory cards in the mail on the same day. That happened to Mike Myers, only on local TV in essentially every town in America. Moral of the story: Mix it up a little, TV producers. There are plenty of Austin Powers quotes to […]
October 18, 2013
Universal’s Classic Monsters May Start Getting the Avengers Treatment

Did Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman start out working with J.J. Abrams specifically so it would be that much more dramatic when they usurped him as the lords of Nerd-Earth? Because this is the final step. They’re one project away. My awe has only increased with each episode of Fox’s excellent Sleepy Hollow, with every […]

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