Posts by Zach Dionne

  • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Opens Big, No Intervention by the Avengers Needed

    With nary an Iron Man or Hulk in sight, ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. blasted and smashed the competition last night, pulling 11.9 million viewers and a very special 4.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic. Within that get-the-advertisers-all-slobbery demo, S.H.I.E.L.D. can now boast the strongest TV drama premiere in the past four years. So it looks […]

  • James Gordon

    Fox Snaps Up Gotham Series, the One That Removes All Traces of Batman

    A new show from Rome co-creator Bruno Heller will focus on the origins of Commissioner James “Never Without a Mustache” Gordon rather than any crusaders who happen to be caped. Some of Gotham’s extraordinarily thematic villains will put in appearances, should that soothe your batarang’d heart. Fox won the bidding war in what Deadline, on […]

  • Afternoon Links: Drake Gets to Be in Anchorman 2 Because He Used to Drive an Anchormanmobile

    Kanye isn’t the only introspective, nation-dividing rapper who’ll appear in Anchorman 2. A befro’d Drizzy Drake will also appear, flexing those Degrassi acting chops for the first time in a minute. He elaborated the casting process to Chelsea Handler thusly: “Anchorman was a huge part of my life. I used to have this car that […]

  • Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen

    This Is Your Pixar on Drugs: Seth Rogen’s R-Rated Cartoon Sausage Movie Is a Go

    Here’s the first question: How high were Superbad buddies Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg when they came up with the idea of an R-rated animated feature called Sausage Party, which EW details as “one sausage’s quest to discover the truth about his existence”? (Side question: Which sausage enterprise do Rogen & Co. owe a thank-you […]

  • Jon Hamm

    Jon Hamm's Throat on the DL

    If you weren’t distracted by the always-gruff texture of Alec Baldwin’s voice at the Emmys, coupled with him calling his 30 Rock character “Dack Donaghy,” you may have noticed an alien tint to Jon Hamm’s typically lustrous voice. Well, that was an actual alien. An alien called a polyp, which is not a thing you […]

  • Neil Patrick Harris hosting the Emmy Awards

    Afternoon Links: Whole Lotta TV Watchin' Goin' On

    The never-ending airtime, the In Memoriam segments that made us cringe worse than This Week’s Really Terrible Things That Happened On Breaking Bad, the mere fact that BrBa was also on, and airing its penultimate episode — none of it mattered. The Emmys telecast drew its biggest audience in eight years: 17.6 million viewers tuned […]

  • Batman Begins

    Watch the Audition Tape That Sold Christopher Nolan on Christian Bale's BatVoice

    Here are some fun things the critics called Christian Bale’s take-you-right-out-of-the-moment-and-dare-you-not-to-laugh-during-this-serious-movie Batman voice: “a strangulated wheeze,” “absurdly deep, like a 10-year-old putting on an ‘adult’ voice to make prank phone calls,” and “a bass-heavy synthesized whisper.” Here’s what Christopher Nolan, the man who yanked the character from the depths of camp into the arena of […]

  • Paul Dano

    Prisoners, and Paul Dano, Finds a Way to Rule the Weekend Box Office

    Prisoners opened this weekend, winning the box office with $21.4 million thanks to the combined Serious Actor faces of Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, unless it was Paul Dano’s presence that did it. (Can it have been Paul Dano? Even if IMDb lists him seventh in the cast after heavyweights like Viola Davis and Melissa […]

  • The Hangover Part III

    The 12 Steps of Experiencing The Hangover Part III

    In your younger years, you enjoyed The Hangover uncomplicatedly. Then you ended up rewatching it at a friend’s on a slow night and realizing the first joke of the franchise is “Don’t text me, it’s gay.” Then a new Hangover arrived, same as the old Hangover, only instead of being hostile just to women and […]

  • Pulp Fiction Diner Scene

    QT Eats: Tarantino’s 20 Best Food Scenes

    The life and times of Quentin Tarantino have gotta be great, right? Sure, making ambitious, super long movies must be taxing. But QT in the offseason? Just listening to albums both obscure and classic, watching all the best old films and all the worst old films, and eating good food. That’s probably basically it. The […]

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