The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
October 14, 2011
World Premiere: See the Video for Stephen Malkmus’ “Senator,” Starring Jack Black
In August, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks dropped the Beck-produced Mirror Traffic, Malkmus’ fifth post-Pavement album. Today, thanks to the folks at Matador Records, Grantland is proud to premiere the new video for “Senator,” starring Jack Black as a cattle-prod-wielding, reelection-seeking senator and Office Space‘s Gary Cole as his Stetson-wearing, guitar-soloing hype man. Directed by […]
Read moreOctober 13, 2011
Ranking Raps: The Top Ten BET Award Cypher Verses
The best thing about this year’s BET Awards (and, for that matter, every year’s BET Awards) were the interstitial cypher videos featuring some of the best, brightest, newest and most forgotten (Lady of Rage!) names in hip-hop. We processed and parsed the 32 verses, spread out over seven clips, and came up with this ranking of […]
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Héctor Salamanca Lives
He may have (spoiler!) exploded into a Gus-melting fireball on Sunday night’s Breaking Bad finale, but now Héctor Salamanca is tweeting from Heaven. We’ve misplaced our spelling board, but we’re pretty sure he’s asking us to suck something here. @H_Salamanca [Twitter]
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Who Should Play Tupac?
Note: Yesterday, Vulture reported that director Antoine Fuqua had left the long-in-development Tupac Shakur biopic, in part because he was having trouble finding an actor to play Shakur. Now, John Singleton is negotiating to direct and the casting search (frantically) continues. October 13, 2011 John Singleton 1991 Furious Styles Lane South Central Los Angeles, CA […]
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We Cast the Coveted Role of Die Hard 5’s John McClane Jr.
Yesterday 20th Century Fox set Valentine’s Day 2014 as the release date for the fifth installment in the truly unkillable Die Hard franchise. While the opportunity to watch Bruce Willis wheeze his way through yet another impossible situation in A Good Day to Die Hard (for realsies) is appealing — do they make gunpowder-stained wifebeaters […]
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RazzieWatch: The Five Biggest Razzie Disappointments of 2011
You know, awards seasons are difficult. Sometimes a movie comes down the pike that seems, for one reason or another, like Razzie bait. Maybe its premise is so stupid that one can only assume the movie was made as part of an elaborate Producers-type scheme. Maybe it’s a remake of a fondly remembered film from […]
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