The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
January 18, 2012
Oscarmetrics: Iron Meryl and Other Best Actress Nominee Predictions
Best Actress Some years, it’s a stretch to come up with five decent candidates for Best Actress; such are the seemingly permanent inequities of the movie business. So it’s a pleasure to report that, despite a deeply problematic set of films, this year’s field is actually stronger than the roster of Best Actor candidates — […]
Read moreJanuary 17, 2012
Grantland Network Podcast: TV Prospectus
Andy Greenwald writes about TV for Grantland. Fellow staffer Chris Ryan has a TV. So what better way for the two friends to spend a Tuesday morning than recording a podcast about the small screen? Listen now as they discuss the problems with The Office (and NBC in general), the horrors of Whitney and Chelsea, […]
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Todd Glass Comes Out on Marc Maron’s Podcast: ‘When Are You Gonna Have a Little Blood on Your Shirt?’
“I know it sounds maybe cliché, but its so much from my soul … “
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RazzieWatch! An Interview With Head RAZZberry John Wilson!!!!
With Golden Raspberry ballots out to voting members and the nominations less than a week away, stars’ Razzie hopes rest with one man: bearded impresario John Wilson, who started the Razzies 31 years ago and has been running them ever since. Wilson was gracious enough to take time out of his incredibly busy schedule to […]
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The Creepiest Stalkers in Pop Culture History
Just like serial killers, sociopathic children, and nudists, celebrity stalkers are much more fascinating when viewed through an artistic lens. A real person with a serious mental illness is not so much fascinating as he is sad. The people who stalk their psychiatrists, their exes, and, of course, celebrities and microcelebrities range from the seriously […]
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Oscarmetrics: Plummer, Brooks, Chastain, and Our Other Supporting Actor Nominee Guesses
With 1,183 members, the actors branch is the largest single voting bloc of the Academy — and also the most susceptible to sentimentality. I don’t mean on-screen tearjerking (although God knows they go for that); I mean that more than any other branch, actors like to root around for the narrative beneath the nomination — […]
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The Return of Mad Men: A Primer
“I feel like that’s the way it is right now. That’s what I feel we’re undergoing — such tremendous change. Technological, cultural, social, our perception of ourselves as a country, our perception of each other. The country really feels like a melting pot, like it’s culturally diverse as ever and representative. And at the same […]
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