Posts by Zach Dionne
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The Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Trailer Arrives in Timely Fashion
Desk jockey Jack Ryan is having a rough week. A big bad guy with a gun came after him, and the author who created him just died. But with a little life-coaching from a droll Kevin Costner (everyone who was disappointed with Pa Kent’s screen time in Man of Steel: This is our moment!), Chris […]
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Afternoon Links: Breaking Bad Ready to Reboot, Only in Spanish, and With Different Characters
Yesterday we saw the character posters for Metastasis, Univision’s Spanish-language adaptation of Breaking Bad. They looked … cool? Fine? As does this trailer? I’m fairly sure the opinion of any American who just finished watching AMC’s series means less than nothing to Univision. What can I say? “They better have twists! Marie better wear blue […]
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David Blaine Will Try to Make Woody Allen, Stephen Hawking, and George W. Bush Believe in Magic. Real Magic.
I’ve never wondered if a magic trick could cheer Kanye up a little. I’ve debated zero friends on whether Woody Allen digs illusions. And now I can’t think of anything else, because ABC has plans to air an hour-and-a-half special called David Blaine: Real or Magic, where America’s wizard-laureate will dazzle 'Ye and Woody as […]
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John Mulaney Series Heads to Fox, Keeps SNL’s Nasim Pedrad Aboard
Stand-up comedian and former Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney has a sorta-autobiographical sitcom that has gone through some ups and downs — mostly with NBC — before getting a series order from Fox this week. Entertainment Weekly calls Mulaney “one of the most promising-sounding pilots from earlier this year.” Splitsider, in an impassioned piece […]
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Afternoon Links: Damon Lindelof Ready to Sweep Lost Under Breaking Bad’s Rug
In case you missed it, Lost co-creator/showrunner/apologist/explainer Damon Lindelof loves Breaking Bad. He wrote a Heisenberg = Batman piece for Vulture last week, and now he has taken to The Hollywood Reporter to talk about how he’s ready, post-BrBa, to stop discussing the divisive/awful/pretty OK (no? just me?) end of Lost. “I’m sick of myself […]
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Ten Works Stephen King Could Revisit for Sequels While Still Moving Forward
On the screen, Stephen King is the guy who writes guilty-pleasure pulp that spawns lifeless, seven-installment, direct-to-video franchises. On the shelf, King’s creative output glitters with originality and a constant sense of momentum. Prior to the new novel Doctor Sleep, King had a part in precisely one sequel — Black House, coauthored with Peter Straub, […]
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Tom Clancy Dies at 66
Tom Clancy, one of publishing’s biggest name brands for the past three decades, died Tuesday night in a Baltimore hospital at the age of 66, cause of death currently unknown. As a thirtysomething insurance salesman, Clancy sold his first novel, The Hunt for Red October, to the Naval Institute Press for $5,000. “After the book’s […]
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Drake Gets His Third Chart Winner and 658,000 New Reasons to Say He’s the Best
It’s hard for the half-dozen or so megawatt rap stars on planet Earth to each stunt about being the best out there and for us to take it seriously, but this round goes to Drake, no contest. Nothing Was the Same topped the Billboard chart with 658,000 copies sold in its debut week. The third […]
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Afternoon Links: Watch the Most Insane GTA V Chase Yet
Don’t act surprised that a five-minute YouTube clip of someone playing a video game has passed 678,000 views in just a few days. Did Grand Theft Auto V even still count as a video game after it earned $800 million on its release day? That’s when a thing morphs into a culture-dominating disk-based piece of […]
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The New Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Trailer: Please Plan Accordingly for the Big Dragon’s Arrival
The Hobbit (2 of 3) (otherwise known as The Desolation of Smaug) is coming for Christmas, and Peter Jackson’s trailer-making Uruk-hai have readied one beardy inferno of a reminder. Don’t forget to bake some Lembas bread for Legolas, making his prodigal return after holidaying in the Caribbean the past few years. You’ll also want to […]
