The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
August 16, 2011
Powerless Rankings: How Do the Impotent Men of Breaking Bad, Curb, and Louie Measure Up?
How are television’s favorite angry white males of a certain age feeling put-upon and impotent this week? Let us count the ways. 3. Louis C.K., Louie Predicament: Double the Louie episodes (seriously, what’s your hurry, FX?) means double the opportunity for angst. In the first, Louie appears on Red Eye (!) to vigorously defend the […]
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How Screwed is Penn Badgley’s Jeff Buckley Movie?
Eyebrows have been raised since Penn Badgley, clean-cut star of Gossip Girl, signed up to play a pre-fame Jeff Buckley in Greetings From Tim Buckley, one of three planned upcoming movies about the late troubadour. Yesterday, though, things got even more worrisome for Greetings: Director Jake Scott, who’s developing his own, as-yet-untitled Buckley biopic — […]
Read moreBradley Cooper Quits The Crow
Bradley Cooper has dropped out of the title role in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s remake of The Crow due to scheduling conflicts with Paradise Lost — but fret not: both Channing Tatum and Mark Wahlberg have apparently surfaced as possible replacements. And if the competition for the role is decided via a shirtless dance contest in […]
Read moreAugust 15, 2011
Dear Pittsburgh: Leave Batman Alone
Pittsburgh, we love you — your picturesque bridges, your charming stadia, your impenetrable language. And we know it’s been a long, confusing summer in the Steel City — what with the Pirates’ cruel and all-encompassing collapse just when they were finally beginning to flirt with the upper echelons of mediocrity. We understand the last thing […]
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Does Lone Ranger’s Cancellation Mean Hollywood Has Finally Gone Sane?
Like a binge-drinker rousing himself from an 8 a.m. Coors puddle and staggering to the nearest AA meeting, Hollywood may have finally sobered up over the weekend. How else to characterize Disney putting the kibosh on its planned big-screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger, with Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski behind the camera […]
Read moreFootloose Trailer: Extra Cheese, No Bacon
It’s “Let’s remake an eighties movie!” week in Hollywood, with spiffy new versions of both Conan the Barbarian and Fright Night hitting theaters on Friday. Capitalizing on the trend is the latest trailer for Footloose 2.0. The basics of the original have been faithfully carried over, only this time Ren McCormack — the juvenile delinquent […]
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Dr. Dre Now Has 309 Million Reasons Not to Finish Detox
Congratulations are in order today for Dr. Dre — he just sold 51 percent of Beats by Dre, the headphone line he flogs relentlessly, for $309 million. This is great news for layabout future generations of the Dre lineage, and even better news for Dre himself: He’s spent much of the time since the release […]
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True Blood Recap: Straw Dogs
So Jessica finally gets to the door during the witch incantation that makes all the vampires go lemming themselves into the sun, but Jason Stackhouse jumps to save her just in time and the industrial mansion fans from Meatloaf’s “I Would Do Anything For Love” come on as his chivalrous instinct gets thwomped by her […]
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Breaking Bad Renewed for Sixteen Final Episodes
Following weeks of intense negotiations, Sony and AMC have reached a deal to produce 16 final episodes of Breaking Bad. Those episodes will be filmed together but may or may not be split into two seasons depending on how many Emmys Bryan Cranston feels like winning. Grade: A+ [Vulture] On Saturday, Captain America‘s Hayley Atwell […]
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