The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
October 11, 2012
10 Things That Can Kill You (And That You Won’t Find in This Year’s Batch of Horror Movies)
1. The flu. Also, the vaccine for the flu, which, even when it doesn’t prove deadly, makes children scream “I don’t like the pills, Daddy! Please don’t make me have the pills!” 2. Reading war bulletins. (But apparently you cannot die until you hear The Flaming Lips’ The Soft Bulletin.)
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The Situation Is PETA’s Newest Poster Boy, Because the World Is an Absurd Place
Before you navigated to this website and encountered the shocking image presented above, if you had made a list of the celebrities who PETA might collaborate with on a spay-and-neutering campaign, how far down that list would The Situation have appeared? Ten-thousandth? A billionth? Somewhere between Ted Nugent and the stars of Animal Planet Extreme’s […]
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Judging The X Factor: Britney Is Entrusted With Teenage Lives, L.A. Reid Is Disgusted by Old People, and Simon Cowell Frankensteins Up Some New Groups
For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. No, you shut up, YOUR job is ridiculous. The X Factor death march trudged along last night from the frozen tundra of Boot Camp to the […]
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Seven Psychopaths Q&A: 10 Minutes in Heaven With Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell
Last week, Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell were stashed in a top-floor suite of the Beverly Hills Four Seasons while on a promotional jag for their new movie and second collaboration with each other and writer/director Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths. (The first was a 2010 run on Broadway with A Behanding in Spokane.) Your humble […]
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Taylor Swift’s Kennedy Three-Way … and Other Horror Stories From This Week’s Tabloids
Star Taylor Swift’s Teen-Boy Love Triangle: “Taylor’s insinuating herself into the Kennedy clan has taken a twisted turn.” After taking on Jackie O’s “prim-‘n’-proper New England-chic, pearls-with-pleated-skirts” style and settling in at the Hyannis Port Kennedy Compound, “she’s adding another Kennedy notch to her belt. Taylor was caught making out with Patrick Schwarzenegger — Conor’s […]
Read moreOctober 10, 2012
Overplayed Song of the Week: Ellie Goulding, ‘Lights’
Every week, Hollywood Prospectus editor and masochistically devoted mainstream-radio listener Emily Yoshida will pick an aging Top 40 hit that she has heard enough times to render the song meaningless, and thus likely to inspire otherwise inaccessible epiphanies. Weeks on Chart: 41 Peak: No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100, August 18, 2012 , 2012 Current Radio Play Frequency No. […]
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Ranking Raps II: The Second-Annual BET Hip-Hop Awards Cypher Conversation
Rembert Browne: First things first:
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YouTube Hall of Walken
Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to 2008’s excellent In Bruges, comes out this weekend, and while we’re certainly looking forward to the director teaming up with Colin Farrell again, it’s a pretty good bet that nine out of 10 scenes will be effortlessly stolen by Christopher Walken, arguably the original modern psychopath. With over 120 […]
Read moreLet’s Come Up With Some Reasons Why Beyoncé Quit Clint Eastwood’s A Star Is Born
What other conspiracy theories might be brewing here?
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Y’all of Fame: Nashville Is the Fall’s Best New Drama
All great artists have their signature tools. For Picasso it was the paintbrush. For E.L. James, it’s the riding crop. And for Connie Britton, it’s “y’all.” Without it, the Boston-born Britton is a fine actress, plain-spoken and sharp. But when handed the simple syllable, she is transformed: Her voice softens even as her face toughens, […]
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I, Munnhead: Why I Take Olivia Munn Seriously, and So Should You
I have a confession to make: I’m a Munnhead. That’s an Olivia Munn fan, for you non-Munnheads (and future Munnheads). Therefore I was very excited to hear about the casting of Olivia Munn as a new love interest for Jake Johnson’s character Nick for an arc on the sophomore season of New Girl. How did […]
Read moreThis Parody of The Master Has a Tidier Resolution than the Film Itself
If you haven’t seen The Master (and you really should have seen The Master), some of this video, from the guys who did the Boys video, might be lost on you. Perhaps not all of it, though, because you’ve probably at least come across a trailer by now. In any case, whether or not you […]
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