The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
August 28, 2012
The Avengers Alternate Beginning: Well, That Was Definitely Another Way to Go With It
The Avengers Blu-ray is coming, and they’ve released this clip of the film’s alternate opening to whet the appetite of those action-starved Whedonites eager to set out on one more mission with Cap, Thor, Hulk, and the boyz. While this certainly would’ve been a darker way to kick things off, the clip’s not without a […]
Read moreHall & Oates Super-PAC Dies, Hall & Oates Remain Politically Unsullied
Hall & Oates are for everyone.
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Divine Fits and the Golden Age of the Sorta-Superbands
In 1974, no less an authority on all matters rock and roll than Time magazine declared that the supergroup was “a potent but short-lived phenomenon” in the late ’60s and early ’70s doomed by “dueling egos” and “musical infighting.” It was a kiss-off to an era of flashy superstar assemblages, nearly all of which seemed […]
Read moreGrading the Top 10 Songs in … THE U.K.!
1. Sam & the Womp, “Bom Bom” It was inevitable that the embarrassing parts of the actual ’90s (heroin chic, Woodstock ’94, Seinfeld haircuts) would bob up to the surface during this whole ’90s thing that’s been happening of late. So here come Sam & the Womp with a bafflingly popular end-of-summer novelty hit to […]
Read moreRZA’s Kung Fu Movie Fulfills Its Primary Duty: Having a Rad Soundtrack
Back in July, Grantland Trailerologists Dan Silver and Rembert Browne broke down RZA’s Russell Crowe–starring kung fu opus The Man With the Iron Fists: “There have been rumors of RZA’s directorial debut for years, but I never believed this film was real. Well, consider me a believer … if the blood splatter on the lens […]
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Sequeltology Day 2: Why Your Favorite Movie Didn’t Make It Into Sequeltology
There’s a very specific, fleeting kind of glee around the Grantland offices on Bracket Day, heady moments the editors greedily drink in as we creep toward the cliff’s edge to lash our latest single-elimination tournament to a stake, waiting for the churning waters of the Internet to part as the Kraken of our readership rises […]
Read moreAugust 27, 2012
The Forbes List List
Today Forbes unleashed its list of the highest-paid celebrities. The most recent list, which charts cash monies acquired between May 2011 and May 2012, is an amazing list, mainly because it’s full of surprises. I CAN’T WAIT TO TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE.
Read more‘Shipping Newsroom Season 1, Episode 10: ‘The Greater Fool’
Sloan & Don Shut. It. Down. I seriously gotta hand it to Sorkin and his “writing staff” — this ‘ship has been built up so sneakily and subtly that the the whole “I’m single because you haven’t asked me out, Don” (really, aren’t we all?) moment felt like the best kind of going-away present. Seriously, […]
Read moreFlight of the Conchords Return for Charity (and Stuff Like That)
New hits from the semi-retired New Zealanders.
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Grantland E-mails: Why Is The Silence of the Lambs Not a Sequel?
As we prepared this week’s Sequeltology bracket, the Grantland staff found itself debating one of the most important philosophical questions of the motion picture era: Is The Silence of the Lambs actually a sequel? After a lengthy exchange, and not a few angry post-debate shin-kickings, we settled on an answer. Sort of. For our purposes. […]
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Breaking Bad Season 5, Episode 7: ‘Say My Name’
All good television shows are about either work or family. The best, of course, are about both. The office and the home are the two great sacred spaces of American life (with the sports stadium, the movie theater, and the Laser Tag arena close behind); any program that concerns itself with one or the other […]
Read moreThe True Blood Finale: ‘Save Yourself’
The fairy squad lays the whammy on Russell Edgington from their Pleasure Island funhouse goblin-mouth portal. He mocks their inefficacy until Eric puts him in a headlock, at which point his face melts off like the Nazi’s in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Russell bursts all over Eric’s torso, giving him a contact body high.
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NBC’s The New Normal Already Getting Banned in Utah
Utah’s NBC affiliate, which is owned by the Mormon Church, is not feeling the same-sex comedy.
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