The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
January 28, 2013
Rick Ross Got Shot At, Crashed His Rolls-Royce Into a Building, Had a Birthday Party
Dude is nothing if not productive.
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The Dumpuary Movie Club: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
With few exceptions, such as the mid-January release of Best Picture nominee Zero Dark Thirty, the two-month period between the New Year and the Oscars is Hollywood’s wasteland, a long stretch of bad cinematic road where it casts out its unloved misfires, its low-achieving genre fare, and, occasionally, its hidden, wolf-punching gems. We call this […]
Read moreVideo: John Walsh and Chris Connelly on Katherine Webb, Jodie Foster, and Social Media
ESPN executive editor John A. Walsh talks to old friend and colleague Chris Connelly about Katherine Webb, Jodie Foster, and how social media has changed us all.
Read moreSNL Episode 12: Adam Levine Gets Naked
Look: This past SNL might not be one for the books or anything, but it beat the daylights out of the previous one, so let’s just drink to that for now. Adam Levine co-hosted with a set of cue cards that — when they weren’t being reflected in windows during a Catfish parody or casting […]
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Faces of Defeat: Reliving the Screen Actors Guild Awards Through the Reactions of the Vanquished
On Sunday night, the Screen Actors Guild gathered its members at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium for its annual celebration of their shared craft, a delightful ceremony free of the annoying focus-pulling that plagues awards shows that insist on handing out statuettes to the unwashed masses who scratch out a living on the wrong side of the […]
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Girls Maturity Level Threat Watch: Episode 3
Hannah The mythical Vice-style blog jazzhate that pays a first time writer with no credentials and 26 Twitter followers two hundred dollars for a post about a personal experience is an urban fairy tale. Aspiring future Hannahs making their way to New York with their liberal arts education diploma in hand and inflated sense of […]
Read moreJanuary 25, 2013
Afternoon Links: People On The Internet Have Opinions About The 2013 Coachella Lineup
Time for the Coachella lineup opinion monsoons! Among the gripes: no holograms, Kurt Vile billed in tiny print, we can’t use the poster as a calendar, somebody must have misspelled “Rolling Stones.” Looks like your 41 year-old cousin finally made his voice heard this year.
Read moreTrailers of the Week: Inside Llewyn Davis, Olympus Has Fallen, The Heat, and More
Inside Llewyn Davis (TBD) Silver: This is a teaser in the truest sense. Aside from an invite-only industry screening of the film in early February, this new film from the brothers Coen does not have a release date — but in all likelihood, it won’t hit theaters until after its all-but-certain debut at Cannes this […]
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Songs of the Week, With Special Guests Bad Books
Back in late December, I picked Bad Books’ new single “Forest Whitaker” for our Song of the Year feature, so I’m excited that Kevin Devine and Andy Hull, who split the band’s songwriting, singing, and guitar-playing duties, agreed to guest-edit Songs of the Week. They’re about to go out on tour to support II, their […]
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NBC Comedy Recap: Two Shows Nearing the End Give Us What We Want, and What We Desperately Don’t Want
30 Rock and The Office are both ending this season, the former in just six days, the latter in four months. As a result, NBC’s once-proud Thursday-night comedy lineup has shifted from triage to hospice care. A sense of finality looms large over all four of the current shows. My sense is that Parks and […]
Read moreVideo on Demand Report: Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña Buddy Up in End of Watch
The Headliner End of Watch Say what you will about David Ayer, but the man has staked out some territory. From Training Day to Dark Blue to S.W.A.T. to End of Watch, he’s written some of the grittiest L.A. cop dramas of our time. Not only that, but he’s attracted some killer talent to his […]
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J.J. Abrams Discusses His (Until Now) Secret Relationship With George Lucas
When I wrote about George Lucas last year, I called up J.J. Abrams. There wasn’t a hint that Abrams was going to be directing the next Star Wars movie, as The Wrap reported yesterday. There wasn’t even that much of known relationship between Abrams and Lucas. In the movie world, Lucas doesn’t do hands-on, Spielbergian […]
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Five Questions on American Idol: Is Nicki Minaj the Greatest Judge Since Simon?
Whatever doesn’t deafen you makes you stronger: Grantland’s Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have returned, bowed but not broken, to tackle another season of American Idol. Join them on their journey, they’ll need fresh meat when things go in a cannibal direction. One Is Nicki Minaj the best non-Simon judge the show’s […]
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Grantland Reality Fantasy League: The Tale of One Lonely Guy, 25 Eager Women, and 18 Egg Whites
After it’s all said and done, when you become a truly self-actualized person, you realize that there’s nothing more important than love. I know this because I watch reality TV. This week, the GRTFL showcased the variety of the different loving relationships that are part of this shared human experience. The Bachelor featured AshLee, who […]
Read moreAfter 10 Years, Matt Damon Finally Duct-Tapes Jimmy Kimmel to a Chair
Damon has his revenge.
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Rembert Explains the ’80s: David Bowie and Mick Jagger, ‘Dancing in the Street’
Welcome back to our series Rembert Explains the ’80s. Every so often, we’ll e-mail 25-year-old Rembert Browne a video from the 1980s that he hasn’t seen. Rembert will write down his thoughts as he’s watching the video, then we’ll post those thoughts here. This week’s installment was selected by Grantland editor-in-chief Bill Simmons: David Bowie […]
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