The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
May 31, 2013
Grantland Reality Fantasy League: Meet the Cringiest Bachelorette Contestants in History!
This week reality TV featured the clingiest woman in the history of dating, the silliest breakup in the history of Real World, and the cringiest Bachelorette suitors in the history of the franchise. But before we get to all that delicious nonsense, we have to officially jump The Bachelorette into the GRTFL gang. That means […]
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Q&A: Now You See Me’s Jesse Eisenberg on Knowing the Secrets of Magic, Working With Michael Caine, and Having to Treat Your Idols Badly
I’m in a cinematic moral quandary this weekend. I want to support non-franchise-based summer blockbusters so that studios might eventually one day permit a trickle of original stories between May and August. But just looking at After Earth’s bad–Kriss Kross–album cover billboards makes me long for the safety of a generic, brainless summer sequel. Seriously, […]
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Paul Thomas Anderson Finally Casts Only-Mildly-Famous Person in Inherent Vice
Congrats, Katherine Waterston.
Read moreMay 30, 2013
Afternoon Links: Guess Pharrell’s Just Really Into Big Bang Theory
With every new day comes a new chance to link you to “Get Lucky.” Tonight’s special is the “Ultimate Johnny Galecki Fan Video,” which can’t be explained so much as delivered to your eyes and brain in a vacuum-sealed pouch. Also I just found out that the lyrics and performance were so “spontaneous” for Pharrell […]
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Rembert Explains the ’90s: Master P, ‘Make ’Em Say Uhh!’
Welcome to our newish series, Rembert Explains the ’90s. Unlike the source material for our previous, ’80s-themed series, these videos have been seen countless times, with the result being an unparalleled, almost embarrassing level of expertise. Rembert will write down his thoughts as he’s watching the video, then we’ll post those thoughts here. This week’s […]
Read moreThe ‘Ashtrays and Heartbreaks’ Music Video: Here Comes Miley Cyrus’s Dark Period
When Miley Cyrus and Snoop Lion’s “Ashtrays and Heartbreaks” dropped a couple months ago, you were probably like Hey, what a nice, summery, mindless little chill sesh, right? It’s just melancholy enough to spur theories about Miley’s rumored confirmed crumbling personal life, but has a nice, positive “life-goes-on-as-long-as-you-don’t-get-lung-cancer” vibe. It’s nice that Cyrus doesn’t have […]
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Serial Killers, Magic Thieves, and Feelings: The Many Harried Cops of Mark Ruffalo
“I don’t think I heard you correctly — did you say, magicians robbed a bank?”
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Orphan Black, the Pre-Recap-Era Throwback Sci-Fi Show You Should Catch Up With
The early-to-mid ’90s were the best time to be a fan of TV sci-fi. That’s not to say that’s when all the best TV science fiction shows were airing, since nothing could be further from the truth, but it was a time when there were enough sci-fi shows worth discussing — The X-Files, first and […]
Read moreGirls in Hoodies Podcast: Behind the Candelabra, Mad Men, and Leo in Space
While Emily is in space for the week visiting Leonardo DiCaprio on his voyage to the stars, Tess and Molly hold down the Hoodies homefront. Topics on the table include Behind The Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh’s incredible Liberace biopic for HBO, which thrilled us with outrageous Vegas schmaltz, genuine emotion, Matt Damon’s stank face, a tender […]
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‘Naked Baby Picture’ Records: The 10 Most Embarrassing Debuts Your Favorite Musicians Released Before They Figured Things Out
If you’ve followed Grantland’s coverage of successful indie bands such as the National, Deerhunter, the Black Keys, and Grizzly Bear and found yourself intrigued, there’s good news: Each of them has a deep and rewarding discography that you can spend a good amount of time digging in to. The bad news is that you eventually […]
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Nathan Fielder Would Like to Destroy Your Relationship Via Twitter
Nathan Fielder, the otherwise gentle, pig-rescuing soul behind Comedy Central’s truly excellent small-business-advocacy half-hour Nathan For You, has a delightful habit of running “experiments” on Twitter, like asking his followers to “Text your parents ‘got 2 grams for $40’ then right after ‘Sorry ignore that txt. Not for you.’ Then tweet pic of their response.” […]
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Is There Anything to All These Mad Men Conspiracies?
If Don Draper were alive today, he’d be 87 years old. Roger Sterling would be 96. Pete would be 79, Peggy would be 74, Joan would be 82, and Megan would be 73, but the likelihood that all of them would have survived after years in the smoky, boozy pressure cooker of SCDP (and its […]
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Hollywood Jumps Onto the Anti-Gwyneth Bandwagon … and Other Horror Stories From This Week’s Tabloids
Star Hollywood Turns Against Gwyneth Paltrow: Paltrow was the pink-dress princess of the ’90s, “earning rave reviews for her performances in Flesh and Bone and Sliding Doors.” You mean Emma and Se7en. “She dated heartthrobs like Ben Affleck and Brad Pitt, who called her ‘my angel’ and even proposed to her. And she won an […]
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