The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
August 20, 2012
Breaking Bad Season 5, Episode 6: ‘Buyout’
A lot can change in a year. About twelve months before the events of “Buyout,” Walt and Jesse were confronted with their first corpse. After much nausea and even more nerves, they eventually decided on a corrosive plan: use hydrofluoric acid and it will burn everything away. The stuff is clear like water, but it’ll […]
Read moreAugust 17, 2012
Trailers of the Week: Seven Psychopaths, Red Dawn, Deadfall and More
Seven Psychopaths (October 12) Silver: Why is my excitement for this at The Hobbit and new episodes of Arrested Development levels? Because, in my opinion, writer/director Martin McDonagh is as close to a literary savant as my generation has ever had. He’s a playwright turned filmmaker whose first feature, In Bruges, was nominated for a […]
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bunheads
I was never a big Gilmore Girls fan, but my mom was. Much like Rory and Lorelai, we were a single mom/only child duo, and back in the show’s WB heyday, I would often coast through the living room as she settled in with the denizens of Stars Hollow, lingering for a few minutes before eventually getting […]
Read moreHollywood Prospectus Podcast’s Reality TV Friday: Gallery Girls, The Real World, and Bachelor Pad Dream Casts
Even though the reality czar is on vacation, reality TV does not stop. In fact, this week brought us the fresh new joy of Gallery Girls, the latest docudrama from the geniuses at Bravo. Hollywood Prospectus editor Emily Yoshida and I got to know the new art-loving ladies, and then moved on to Bachelor Pad […]
Read moreVideo on Demand Report: Bachelorettes, Bigfoots, and Catholic Basketball
The Headliner Bachelorette This is both a headliner and an early VOD premiere: Bachelorette will be in theaters next month, but you can watch it at home right now. But should you? Sure! It’s pretty good! Kirsten Dunst fearlessly commits to playing the alpha bitch maid of honor to Rebel Wilson’s bride. Lizzy Caplan is […]
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Should You See It? A Curious Consumer’s Decision-Making Guide to The Expendables 2
Sylvester Stallone gives and gives, and then he gives some more. He gives us his heart (Rocky). He gives us his body (Rambo). He gives us his mind (Tango & Cash), his spirit (Over the Top), his very manhood (The Party at Kitty and Stud’s). And in August of 2010, so drained by more than […]
Read moreThere Is Now a Bane Soundboard on the Internet. You Know What to Do.
There is now a Bane Soundboard on the Internet. You know what to do. [Editor’s note: We fear Official Grantland “Office Bane” Robert Mays just got John Henry’d. It’s sad to think about, but you can’t stop progress.] [h/t @ThePlaylist]
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Grantland Reality Fantasy League: Delusion? Desperation? Delsperation!
Full disclosure, I am mailing this one in. I’m on vacation and didn’t plan on doing the GRTFL this week but there was so much asinine shit to joke about in reality TV I just couldn’t pass it up. But before we get to all of that, I learned two big travel tips that I […]
Read moreRussian Punk Rockers Pussy Riot Convicted of Hooliganism, Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
Sentencing still to come.
Read moreCopper Preview: You Can’t Teach an Old-Timey Cop Show New Tricks
Picture a show set in the New York of another century, a gritty drama where overburdened, ethnically accented police patrol a nearly unrecognizable city and are prone to foul language, shocking bursts of violence, and dubious definitions of morality. That show is called NYPD Blue, and it takes place in the long-ago year of 1994. […]
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