The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
January 6, 2012
Songs of the Week: The-Dream Rocs, Kool A.D. Flys Thru the Air Inna Airplane
New music for your ears.
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Trailers of the Week: Bad Ass, Underworld: Awakening and More
Bad Ass (April) Dan Silver: Is there an end-of-the-year award for Best Tagline to a film? If there is, I’d like to nominate the one from Bad Ass — “He’s Mean. He’s Angry. He’s Old.” Forget the underwhelming Machete, this appears to be the film the real-life badass, Danny Trejo, was born to make. What’s […]
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The Grantland Reality Television Fantasy League: Season 2 Begins
Welcome to Season 2 of the Grantland Reality Television Fantasy League. Seems like just yesterday I called Grantland Editor Lane Brown before the site launched and explained to him what a terrible idea the GRTFL was and begged him not to run it. He ran it. He is no longer with Grantland. Those may or […]
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The Incredibly, Insanely, Undeniably Awesome Return of Van Halen
Van Halen performed at Café Wha? last night. It’s possible you’ve already heard reports of this, since Café Wha? only holds 250 people and just about every single person inside the venue was a journalist, an industry bozo, or a former Wimbledon champion (John McEnroe was there). This event was partially the result of Café […]
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Portlandia and Great Moments in Hipster Bashing
As Portlandia begins its second season tonight, part of me wonders if it is the pinnacle of hipster-bashing video comedy. As a sharable meme, hipster bashing might have outlasted its natural life cycle, but Portlandia continues to provide a high level of cultural commentary thru parody. As much as I’d like to dismiss it, the […]
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January 5, 2012
Celebrating the Post-Racial All Stars
Our “Postracial All Stars” are politicians, personalities, artists, athletes, etc. who are best at helping us deal with where we are on race relations today. They keep it real, when others can’t. A Barack, a Jon Stewart/Daily Show, a Chris Rock, a South Park, a Lorne Michaels, a Modern Family, a Louis CK (mentioned below), […]
Read moreRembert Explains the ’80s: Bosom Buddies
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our series, Rembert Explains the ’80s. Every so often, we’ll e-mail 24-year-old Rembert Browne a video from the 1980s that he hasn’t seen. Rembert will write down his thoughts as he’s watching it, then we’ll post those thoughts here. This week’s installment was selected by our deputy editor, Dan Fierman: Bosom […]
Read moreWe Found It on Watch Instantly: 11-11-11
Each week, Netflix Watch Instantly adds hundreds of new titles. Four or five are movies you want to watch, some are bad TV shows or camp classics, and most make no sense at all. Those in the latter category are puzzling: not bad enough to be good and certainly not good enough to be interesting. […]
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RazzieWatch: For Your Consideration! Bad Actors in Good Movies
RazzieWatch Important Editorial Note! John Wilson has contacted RazzieWatch worried that casual readers might believe that RazzieWatch speaks with the authoritative voice of the Golden Raspberry organization! When we finished picking our jaws off the floor — the Head RAZZberry emailed us!!! — we of course agreed to his requests that we make it clear […]
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The Brand/Perry “Sexual Pyrotechnics”… and Other Horror Stories from This Week’s Tabloids
“MARRIED TO A CRAZY MAN” The Saga Of Russell Brand And Katy Perry: “Katy Perry awoke alone in her Kauai, Hawaii, rental home December 30, ready to organize a party for New Year’s Eve.” A trial separation exploded in flames when Perry realized “her husband of 14 months had reneged on the deal, blindsiding her […]
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Grading the Celebrity Engagements
Five days into the new year, and the first big celebrity trend has reared its shockingly cute head: being engaged. We as a culture are used to becoming emotionally invested in one or two celebrity engagements at a time, but seven is a bit much. Yes, seven men decided to put rings on it over […]
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The People Who Hate Glee Creator Ryan Murphy
A person doesn’t become a pioneer of rear-entry scenes without accumulating a few detractors. Ryan Murphy’s haters are a diverse group: from the Parents Television Council, predictably wishing sex and other interesting things off the airwaves, to former fans who are sick (Sick! Green at the gills!) of illogical plot twists and disappointing season finales […]
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