The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
January 26, 2012
The Many Moods of Seal… and Other Absurdities From This Week’s Tabloids
US Seal And Heidi: Despite a romantic proposal (“in an igloo he constructed on a glacier”) and their “elaborate yearly vow renewals,” behind closed doors Seal could get a little crazy. Seal’s “mood swings” and “jealousy about Klum’s skyrocketing career” doomed the couple. They got tired of being “a robot family” in public and after […]
Read moreJanuary 25, 2012
GRTFL Update: The Challenge: Battle of the Exes Cometh
Happy Challengoliday! America’s fifth major sport, MTV’s The Challenge, returns to your television this evening, and we’ve decided to roll out a special GRTFL post just to get you prepared for this glorious event. I urge you to right now get a Challenge fantasy league together with your friends and hold a draft before this […]
Read moreYouTube HOF: Super Bowl Commercials
Pepsi, Cindy Crawford Bill Simmons: This is my favorite Super Bowl commercial ever. Back in 1992, I desperately hoped it would start a trend of big brands using smoking-hot women to strut in slow motion while purchasing their products, a trend that should have started back in the mid-1980s when Tawny Kitaen was rolling around […]
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Wu-Tang Clan Live at Club Nokia: Still Something to F*ck With
Full disclosure: I hate live music. Too loud, too crowded, too hard to have a conversation, and just generally too much yelling for my taste. However, my love of all things Wu-Tang so surpasses my distaste for live music that when I heard that the Clan was bringing their Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game […]
Read morePoster Decoder: Jeff Who Lives at Home, Safe, The Hunger Games, and More
Jeff Who Lives at Home What the art says: This movie is going to be a total bummer. You’ve got two funny actors, one looks sad, the other looks bored, and both are standing in front of wood paneling, which just screams “working-class depression.” Sure, Susan Sarandon is smiling, but that’s because they used a […]
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The Return of Skins, the Greatest! Teen Show! Of All Time!
An argument in favor of some British stuff.
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Protection: Justified Season 3, Episode 2, ‘Cut Ties’
Last night’s episode of Justified was an example of why some newcomers find it a little hard to embrace the show initially. In the first episode we caught up with Marshall Raylan Givens, his ex-wife, current lover, and soon-to-be mother of his child, Winona, his fremesis, Boyd Crowder, and all the other characters, old (Art! Tim!) […]
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Post Megaupload Shutdown, the Recording Industry Attempts to Reacquire Its Swag
Is the Megaupload shutdown a game changer?
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