The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
August 29, 2011
Just Because They’ve Barely Shot Any of the Hunger Games Movie Doesn’t Mean It Can’t Have a Teaser
See the movie’s first teaser trailer.
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True Blood Recap: Wild in the Streets
From the balcony, Marnie and her minions Statler-and-Waldorf on the increasingly chaotic and now gore-spattered vamp convention. Sookie flits about in her hearts-adorned hoodie. Girl has the fashion sense of a six-year old who’s been held back. The vamps are dressed like a bunch of high-school teachers chaperoning a dance. I was hoping vampire Principal […]
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August 26, 2011
Trailers of the Week: Carnage, Scorsese’s George Harrison Doc, and Jack and Jill
Headed to the movie theater this weekend? Here are the new trailers you’ll miss while waiting in line for popcorn. George Harrison: Living in the Material World (October 5) Martin Scorsese’s new doc, an intimate portrait of quiet Beatle George Harrison. It’s clear from this trailer that he got all the right folks to sit […]
Read moreThe Rum Diary Trailer: Fun Johnny Depp Comes Back off the Shelf
Hide the women and bury the liquor! Johnny Depp is having fun again. That’s the only takeaway from this long-gestating, not-quite-as-long-shelved adaptation of the “lost” Hunter S. Thompson novel. Written in 1961, published in 1998, filmed in 2009, and finally opening this fall, The Rum Diary is the story of a disillusioned journalist who escapes […]
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Reality League Scorecard: Climb Every Mountain
This week we said goodbye to The Challenge and Celebrity Rehab and selected the new shows we’ll be adding to the Grantland Reality Television Fantasy League this fall. There was a lot of talk around the office about adding ones that were “smarter” and “less trashy,” but after extensive research we concluded that those shows […]
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