The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
June 10, 2015
‘Do You Like Prince Movies?’ Podcast: ‘Entourage,’ ‘Results,’ and ‘Love & Mercy’
Grantland Entourologist Mark Lisanti boards the ‘Prince Movies’ Topless Party Yacht to discuss the least essential movie of the summer.
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Jason Derulo, ‘Want to Want Me,’ and the Rise of ‘iTunescore’ Music
Derulo and artists like him make music designed to blend into the bland mush of the random playlist.
Read more‘The Lambert Account’ Podcast: Why You Should Be Watching ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Season 2
Molly Lambert and Dave Schilling join forces to discuss Season 2 of AMC’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ and explain why you should be watching their favorite show.
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On the Heels of Apple Music’s Big Announcement, What If Major Artists Stopped Releasing Albums?
Apple Music seems like a useful, integrated, modern service — for $9.99 per month, you can stream songs from Apple’s huge library, access a radio station staffed with celebrity DJs, and interact with your favorite musicians on Connect, Apple’s very own social network. The problem is that listeners can already get these things elsewhere.
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Fueling Up the ‘War Machine’: Why Brad Pitt Is Joining the Netflix Bandwagon
Why Netflix is bankrolling Pitt’s latest passion project. And why he’s letting it do so.
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The Short Life, Weird Death, and Mild Rebirth of the Witch House Genre
The music was largely electronic, drawing from shoegaze and ambient and the slow and low remixes of DJ Screw. At its best, it was blown out and textured; at its worst, it was just a decent enough concept to work off of — all surface, with one idea dragged across multiple songs.
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Ask the Maester: Dragons, Human Sacrifice, and More Dragons
The answers to all of your questions from this week’s penultimate episode of the season.
Read more‘Grantland Pop Culture Podcast’: Sparks and Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand
Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, and Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, visit the Grantland studio to discuss humor in music, the art of collaboration, and their new supergroup, FFS.
Read more‘Hollywood Prospectus Podcast’: ‘Game of Thrones,’ the Tony Awards, and Matt Damon’s New Movie
Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald talk ‘Game of Thrones,’ the Tony Awards, and the new Matt Damon movie, ‘The Martian.’
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