The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
September 26, 2011
Oscarmetrics: Statistics Don’t Favor Brad Pitt’s Best Actor Chances
There is no official beginning to the fall Oscar race, but if there were, the arrival of Moneyball last week would be the equivalent of the starter pistol. Reviews for the movie — which, appropriately, opened on the first day of autumn — might be falling just a hair short of the zeitgeist-invoking ecstasies that […]
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Breaking Bad Recap: That Rug Really Tied the Room Together
Somewhere, I’m sure, there’s a message board on which people are currently whinging that this fourth season of Breaking Bad is too slow, too staid, too something, that the show, painting itself into a corner with 19 episodes left to go, has no choice but to drag out the story and the relationships. And while […]
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Boardwalk Empire Premiere Recap: Big Game
An old-timey moppet retrieves a bottle. I see Boardwalk Empire didn’t heed my suggestions about easing up on the ragtime. A crew of rum-runners led by Richard (Jack Huston) and Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) move work. A lady shakes her boobs at Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) to remind us of the DECADENCE and GLITTERING THEATRICALITY […]
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September 23, 2011
Trailers of the Week: The Grey, Big Miracle, Man on a Ledge
The Grey (January 27, 2012) In The Grey, Joe Carnahan’s follow-up to The A-Team, a pack of wolves hunt a group of oil-drilling plane crash survivors in the Alaska tundra. The film is being compared to Jaws or The Edge. Also, it will provide audiences the opportunity to see Liam Neeson punch a wolf.
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Grantland Network Podcast: Reality Czar David Jacoby, Survivor’s Coach, and Jay Caspian Kang
If you’re interested in witch doctors or the future of the human race, you should give this podcast with Survivor‘s Coach and Grantland’s Jay Caspian Kang a listen.
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Thursday Night Recap: The Office Returns, Scott-Free But in Familar Form
Every week in this space Grantland pop culture correspondent Andy Greenwald will run down the happenings and mishappenings in NBC’s Thursday comedy night done mostly right. 1. The Office Early in the jam-packed opening moments of this first episode The Office’s eighth season, delightfully dotty receptionist Erin attempts to explain the Jay-Z-endorsed Internet phenomenon of […]
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Reality Scorecard: Snooki’s Wilt Chamberlain Night
You know that famous picture of Wilt Chamberlain holding up the “100” sign? If I were halfway decent at Photoshop, I would replace Wilt’s face with Snooki’s tan-, tear-, and mascara-covered one and put it at the top of this post. What happened to America’s favorite spherically shaped human this week made Hamlet look like […]
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Other Artistic Liberties Taken by the Moneyball Movie
If you’ve read any Baseball People’s reactions to Moneyball, Bennett “The Good Capote One” Miller’s film adaptation of the Michael Lewis bestseller Moneybeane: One Handsome Rageoholic’s Quest to Buy a Playoff Ticket With a Fistful of Loose Change, you now are probably aware that the movie takes certain liberties with the facts of the real-life […]
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