The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
September 6, 2012
September Book Recommendations: This Is How You Lose Her, My Heart Is an Idiot, The Signal and the Noise
This Is How You Lose Her, by Junot Díaz In college, I had a creative writing professor who claimed Junot Díaz had read 100 short-story collections before he penned a single word of his first book of stories, Drown. That professor (or maybe it was a friend of hers) later met Díaz and asked him […]
Read moreTop Chef Masters Season 4, Episode 7: ‘Culinary Knock Out’
Last week’s episode of Top Chef Masters marked the departure of Art Smith and a farewell to his many variations on biscuits and dressing. It also was the point at which the enamel started to crack on the Le Creuset casserole of inter-chef relationships: Kerry and Patricia sparred during service and Art and Lorena’s credentials […]
Read moreHow Excited Is Samuel L. Jackson for Taken 2?
Very, VERY excited! We just hope he doesn’t squeeze it so hard we have to send Liam Neeson up there to retrieve it from captivity. He leaves a body count. BONUS SECTION!
Read moreAnimated Archives: Neal Brennan’s Legendary Prince Story
We’ve had a lot of ideas for what we are going to put on the Grantland Channel, some terrible (“Let’s tape and edit our pickup basketball games”) and some excellent (“Let’s take the best bits in the history of the B.S. Report and animate them”). The latter was so good, we spent a decent amount […]
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The Obama Disadvantage: Dinesh D’Souza’s 2016
One of the stock arguments in competitive debate is a nifty thing called the Disadvantage. The name is self-evident — if your opponent proposes x, a Disadvantage lays out the disadvantages of doing x. The argument consists of four distinct yet interlocking parts. Part A is uniqueness, which is just debate-speak for “this scenario that […]
Read moreB.S. Report: Jack Black
Actor/musician Jack Black stops by the Grantland studio to discuss Tenacious D, pre-concert rituals, his acting career, the Lakers, and must-see “weed movies.” Subscribe to the B.S. Report and the Grantland Network on iTunes.
Read moreAfter Slaying of Rival, Chicago Police Investigating Chief Keef for Possible Connections
Keith “Chief Keef” Cozart is a 17-year-old Chicago rapper signed to Interscope Records and best known for his mixtape hit “I Don’t Like” (a song that’s been reappropriated as the final track on Kanye West and his G.O.O.D. Music crew’s upcoming album, Cruel Summer). Joseph “Lil JoJo” Coleman was a fellow teen Chicago rapper that […]
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Lindsay Lohan’s $46,350 Eviction, and Other Horror Stories From This Week’s Tabloids
Us Weekly Lindsay Lohan Banned From Chateau Marmont: What did it take to get the infamous party girl finally blacklisted from her favorite haunt, a place famous for putting up with partying? A ridiculous unpaid bill for $46,350 from a “47-day stay in June and July (she racked up $686 on cigarettes alone!)” during the filming […]
Read moreSeptember 5, 2012
Overplayed Song of the Week: Demi Lovato, ‘Give Your Heart a Break’
Welcome to the Overplayed Song of the Week. 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 meaningless, and thus ripe for having otherwise inaccessible epiphanies about. Weeks on Chart: 24 Peak: No. 1 on Billboard’s […]
Read moreNew Taken 2 Trailer: Liam Neeson Now Expanding Target Range Beyond Albanian Sex Traffickers
See a new clip from Taken 2.
Read moreThe Quotable Cat Power: A Quick Spin Through Chan Marshall’s Greatest Recent Sound Bites
On Tuesday, Matador Records released Sun, Cat Power’s ninth album in 17 years. Cat Power is the recording and performing moniker of Chan Marshall, an artist so notoriously unpredictable that when I just described her as “unpredictable,” a cascade of black balloons fell from the ceiling and a giant banner unfurled informing me that I […]
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YouTube HOF: Are You Ready for Some Football (Movies)?
Editor’s note: Every once in a while, we here at the Hollywood Prospectus blog take a break from our back issues of Cahiers du Cinéma and Teen People to check in with the world of sport, and it has recently come to our attention that football season is indeed upon us. Now, if there’s one […]
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Fall TV Preview: ABC Tries to Go Big With Nashville and Last Resort, Go Dumb With The Neighbors
With Labor Day in the rearview mirror, it’s time to focus on the main business of the fall: school football television! All week, Grantland will be previewing the new TV season, one network at a time, and evaluating the first efforts of each incoming freshman. Next up: ABC. Oh, ABC. Always the bridesmaid, never the […]
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Cloud Atlas, the Wachowskis, and The New Yorker’s Delicate Transgender Dance
Lana and Andy Wachowski did one of those epic hero’s-journey-of-the-entertainer profiles in The New Yorker this week, even though their next movie, an adaptation of David Mitchell’s supposedly unfilmable novel Cloud Atlas, isn’t out until October, and despite abundant evidence suggesting that getting your arc documented in The New Yorker on the eve of the […]
Read moreIf The Master Is Any Good, You Can Thank Joaquin Phoenix’s Fake Rapping
Phoenix explains his motivation in his comeback role.
Read moreThe Best B.S.: Jack Black on Sitting Courtside
Jack Black tells the tale of the time he and Chris Paul had beef at a Lakers game after he came to the aid of Sasha Vujacic. Related: Jack Black tells the story of the Tenacious D name. Visit Grantland’s YouTube Channel for more videos.
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Sequeltology 7: The Final Chapter
This just in from Cloud City: It was a blowout. The Empire Strikes Back thumped Godfather II in the finals of our Sequeltology bracket. Yesterday, the Sports Guy laid out an impassioned case for Godfather II (which, if it were released today, would probably be titled “Sicily: There and Back Again”). But I knew The […]
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