The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
August 22, 2013
Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Breaking Down the Bracket, Plus the Taylor Swift Report and Lindsay Lohan vs. Oprah
Today on Girls in Hoodies we kick things off by attempting to explain/pick apart Grantland’s not-at-all-controversial Best Songs of the Millennium bracket. (We would appreciate any and all votes for our theme song, “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites,” currently languishing against “Call Me Maybe.”) Molly and Emily recap their Taylor Swift adventure at Staples Center, […]
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The Bridge Season 1, Episode 7 Recap: The Defiant Weirdness of 'Destino'
When given a choice between doing something easy and doing something hard, television usually just punts and tries to build a sitcom around Pamela Anderson instead. Yet in 2013, our screens are overrun with complicated, creepy murder investigations. And detective stories, despite what Encyclopedia Brown and Jessica Fletcher would have you believe, are hard to […]
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Drake's New Album Cover Is Everything
Aubrey Drake Graham did this to the universe of oxygen-inhaling humans with Internet connections last night. This is the artwork for his highly anticipated upcoming album, Nothing Was the Same, set to be released on September 24. If you’re seeing this image for the first time, I envy you. Cherish this moment, because the thoughts […]
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The Top 64 Songs of the Millennium Playlist
Need to jog your memory before you make that critical call between White Stripes and Mystikal? Or just want to jam to wall-to-wall millennial classics on your commute? There’s a Spotify playlist for that.
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Justin Timberlake Is NOT Cheating on Jessica Biel With His Cousin … and Other Close Calls From This Week's Tabloids
OK! Is Justin Timberlake Cheating on His Wife? The rumors started “when Justin Timberlake left a party at Philadephia’s Sigma Sound Studios with a beautiful blonde close behind.” Has his commitment to monogamy already gone bye bye bye? Nah, it’s his cousin. “Should I just go ahead and change my name to mystery blonde?” tweeted the […]
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Ain't No Party Like a Super-Sad, $250-Per-Dude Corey Feldman Lingerie Birthday Party
Childult actor and budding party-mogul Corey Feldman (The Goonies, Stand by Me, Zero Dark Dirty) recently allowed Vice into his home — [clears throat theatrically] excuse us, The Feldmansion — to celebrate his birthday and participate in his latest business venture: Corey’s Angels, a combustible mix of marginal celebrity, misguided entrepreneurship, and a dangerously downmarket, […]
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Next Up on the Celebrity Kickstarter Carousel: Sylvester Stallone
He would like your money please.
Read moreAugust 21, 2013
Afternoon Links: Jam to the Squishy Sounds of the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy
The final installment of Edgar Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End, hits theaters this Friday. To get you in the right mind-set, DJ Mike Relm has put together this four-minute mash-up of scenes and audio from Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End. Who knew the old blood-squish SFX would […]
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Rembert Explains America: A Trip to Monowi, Nebraska, America's One-Woman Town
The morning trip to Monowi, Nebraska, was long overdue. Twice I’d driven through the Midwest knowing that this small town existed and twice I’d passed up the opportunity to visit. But finally, after waking up only a few hours away in Sioux City, Iowa, and headed west, I knew this was my last opportunity. Two […]
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Diving Into the Red Sea at Taylor Swift's Sold-Out Staples Center Concert
Taylor Swift is in the middle of a sold-out four-night engagement at Staples Center in Los Angeles, and Grantland writers Molly Lambert and Emily Yoshida could not resist the pull of Swiftmania. Last night, they surrendered themselves to the beckoning calls of 15,000 screaming fans, and from their stage-left nosebleed seats they witnessed an evening […]
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YouTube Hall of Drunk
The World’s End arrives in theaters this weekend to finish out the dog days of summer movie season with two things that never fail: alcohol and aliens. We decided to focus on the alcohol part this week and bring you our favorite scenes of liquid intoxication from film and TV. So pour yourself a glass […]
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Game of Thrones Offseason Report: What Have Your Favorite Westerosians Been Up to This Summer?
It has been 73 days since the world enjoyed a new episode of Game of Thrones. Hopefully, it won’t be long until you’ve recovered from the shock of the Red Wedding. If you’re still reeling, wondering how [SPOILER ALERT, but come on now, this is for people who watch the show] you’ll go on without […]
Read moreDo You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Lee Daniels' The Butler, Elmore Leonard, and the Kardashians
Zac Efron gets peed on! John Cusack plays Nixon! The Kardashians are thoughtfully considered. Looks like it’s So Wrong It’s Right Week. Plus: a tribute to Elmore Leonard. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to Grantland Pop Culture on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
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They're All All Right: Checking in on the Cast of That '70s Show on Its 15th Anniversary
That ’70s Show, which celebrates the 15th anniversary of its debut on August 23, was a cheeky recent-past nostalgia series, from the Cheap Trick cover of Alex Chilton’s “In the Street” that opened the show starting in the second season to a blatant disregard for “the space-time continuum” that allowed for more than one Christmas a […]
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Southern But Not Country: New Albums From Valerie June and Diarrhea Planet
Perhaps the best thing you could say about roots-music polymath Valerie June and her new record, Pushin’ Against a Stone, is that her music transcends toxic descriptors like “Williamsburg-Appalachia-country-blues-pop.” That’s how June was classified recently by The New York Times Magazine, which is among the media outlets that have rushed to anoint the 31-year-old Tennessee […]
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