The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
July 22, 2013
July 19, 2013
Afternoon Links: There’s Nothing Funnier Than Cracking Up at a Cannibal Dinner Party
Fresh from a screening at Comic-Con, the Hannibal gag reel hit the Internet today. That old saying that we memorized in first-grade media studies — “The more serious the project, the funnier the gag reel” — is only reinforced by watching Laurence Fishburne get the giggles in front of the drama lens (cannibal filter). How […]
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Songs of the Week: The Rembert Explains America Road Trip Playlists, for Day and Night Driving
Instead of the normal Songs of the Week, I present to you two playlists that stem from spending 30-plus hours a week behind the wheel, listening to music. 1. America Road Trip Driving Jamz (Day): Really necessary, fun, important songs to listen to while driving through America when the sun is up.
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Video: The Course of the Force Lightsaber Relay, From Skywalker Ranch to Comic-Con
We follow the “Course of the Force” Star Wars fan lightsaber relay from San Francisco, down the California coast, and to Comic-Con in San Diego. Check back Monday for more Grantland Channel coverage from Comic-Con.
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And Your Weekend Longread Is: The Grand Unification Theory of Pixar
“Toys are obviously not satisfied with the status quo, providing a reason for why machines and objects alike are ready to take over.”
Read moreWatch Archer Combined With Star Trek: The Animated Series, Because It Is Sublime
Sssshhh. SSSSSSSHHHH. Sterling Archer is speaking. Through James T. Kirk’s animated face. Just shut your mouth for one hot arrogant-superspy-inside-an-overacting-starship-captain minute and give this video the respect it deserves. [h/t Warming Glow]
Read moreThe Right Reasons Podcast and Video: With Special Guest Frank Sweeney of The Challenge
After 24 seasons of The Challenge, there are a certain number of questions that I have about every season. How much time do you get from “the call” until the show starts? Does the cast really not know what the premise will be before TJ tells them? How easy is it to have sex off-camera? […]
Read moreVideo on Demand Report: Kick Off the Second Half of the Baseball Season With 42
The Headliner 42 The story of Jackie Robinson, and the integration of baseball, is undeniably important and inspiring and all the things we want a sports movie to be. And yet, when 42 hit theaters this spring, didn’t it seem like no one was really that excited about it? Even with a Jay Z song […]
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It’s a Crime: R.I.P.D. Is DOA
Every once in a while you see a bad movie and wonder how more of them aren’t worse — a film so shitty on so many levels that you can’t believe no one involved with the production could see that nothing was working. R.I.P.D. is that kind of bad. It’s so bad, it puts other […]
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Grantland Reality Fantasy League: Dark Liquor, Flying Cobras, and Huffing Keyboard Cleaner
I don’t think of the people on The Challenge as actual real-life human beings. In my mind they spontaneously materialize every 10 months in some foreign country in the latest Under Armour gear and start drinking and arguing. The idea that Jasmine files taxes, Paula Walnuts goes grocery shopping, and CT has an employer just […]
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The Two Goslings: A Movie Star Divided
“Wanna fight?” That is one of the just 15 or so lines of dialogue Ryan Gosling utters in the new film Only God Forgives. It’s delivered limply, like he hardly means it, to an enemy. Across the 89-minute running time, Gosling shuffles and sulks through his performance as Julian, a dazed Muay Thai gym owner […]
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The X-Files Reunion at Comic-Con: Dinner Dates, Barbecue, and a Secret Love Child
“He looks like me. That’s our son.”
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