The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
January 11, 2013
Video on Demand Report: Now Nothing Is Stopping You From Watching the Surprisingly Awesome Dredd 3D
The Headliner Dredd Was anyone really clamoring for a remake of Judge Dredd, the 1995 Sylvester Stallone vehicle? No. No one was. I think we all agreed that the mid-’90s were what might charitably be termed a fallow period in Stallone’s career, and probably mixed up Judge Dredd with Demolition Man anyway. (“Wasn’t Judge Dredd […]
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Banshee Preview: Alan Ball and a Couple of Talented Novelists Go for It, Cinemax-Style
Thirteen years ago this summer, The New Yorker published its debut Debut Fiction issue. Among the fictional first-timers contained within was David Schickler, a then 31-year-old not making a living scribbling stories from his parents’ basement in upstate New York. Schickler’s contribution, “The Smoker,” about the curious relationship between a loner private school teacher and […]
Read moreWhat Did Your Favorite Oscar-Snubbed Directors Do Last Night?
How’d Ben Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow, and Quentin Tarantino spend their post-snub afternoons?
Read moreCommunity Season 4 Goes to the Hunger Games
When you think about it, hasn’t everything about Community‘s suffering-fraught journey from its Season 3 bubble-show pickup to its much-delayed Season 4 debut — still February 7, as per the above promo clip, until it’s not! — essentially been The Hunger Games in microcosm? Those living in District Greendale have been clamoring after any piece […]
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Grantland Reality Fantasy League: One Rose to Rule Them All
“I want to be in love more than anything. Period. That is all there is to that.” — AshLee “I am sick of being single, I am sick of being alone. I am ready to fall in love.” — Robyn “I am a pretty strong person, and I can rationalize things pretty well to get […]
Read moreSeth MacFarlane’s Oscar Promos: ‘That’s Not How You Spell Douche’
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Read moreJanuary 10, 2013
Afternoon Links: Attacking Lena, Losing Britney, and Diversifying Bunheads
A breakdown of Linda Stasi’s New York Post review of the second season of Girls: 3 out of 4 stars for the “grittiness” and “reality”; 14 out of 4 stars for the “gorgeous,” “breathtakingly beautiful” Marnie; 1 out of 4 for the “ugly” anal sex, sheets, and studio apartments; and zero stars for Lena Dunham’s […]
Read moreRembert Explains the ’80s: Erik Estrada Sings Kool & the Gang’s ‘Celebration’ on CHiPs
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 picked by a reader whose name we lost […]
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1600 Penn Preview: Can You Impeach the Entire First Family?
A few months ago, the White House hosted a special screening of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. The event drew little attention and even less criticism because people from both sides of the aisle probably thought it a pretty good idea: a prestige film about one of the greatest Americans? Not even Glenn Beck could shed a […]
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American Horror Story Season 2, Episode 11: ‘Spilt Milk’
I don’t know that I necessarily agree that American Horror Story: Asylum is paratactic, as Slate recently and somewhat convincingly argued, because after recapping it all season, I’m pretty sure I can connect the threads. It just takes six billion years and a lot of retracing of sadistic torture scenes.
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So, Those Oscar Nominations Were … Interesting
You can be honest. When Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone announced the Oscar nominations this morning, you were nervous they were going to go all Baseball Writers’ Association of America and say, “This year there are no nominees.” Of course, if you’re Ben Affleck or Kathryn Bigelow or even Tom Hooper and Quentin Tarantino, isn’t […]
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The Haylor Breakup, Mariah Carey’s ‘All-Purple Diet’ … and Other Absurdities From This Week’s Tabloids
US Weekly Bethenny Frankel & Jason Hoppy’s Split: Lunching with a friend in New York, Frankel and a friend “shared a plate of octopus, spaghetti, and a solemn conversation.” How does one share a plate of octopus? Four tentacles each? Bethenny “wasn’t smiling or laughing. She looked serious.” Not to mention, her wedding ring was […]
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