The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
August 2, 2011
Bomb Shelter: Why Did Cowboys & Aliens Fail?
Despite a premise that fused two once-reliable genres and a cast featuring both Indiana Jones and James Bond, Jon Favreau’s $163 million Cowboys & Aliens got smurfing smurfed at the box office over the weekend, opening to a measly $36.2 million — well below even the modest $45 million its makers had predicted. As Harrison […]
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Green Lantern Sequel to Be Bleaker, Less Fun
Green Lantern opened and bombed in mid-June — or, in blog years, in 1874 — and since then its failed cinematic vision of a charismatic Ryan Reynolds and a heroic Space Chicken has been on the mind of absolutely no one, save for the accountants at Warner Brothers who have to try and explain away […]
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What Would Another Network Do With Breaking Bad?
In a move sure to send their nascent stock offering plummeting, AMC has begun a dangerous game of hardball with one of its signature, non-boring shows. According to the L.A. Times, negotiations between the network and Sony Television over the fifth (and planned final) season of Breaking Bad have soured, with AMC reportedly asking for […]
Read moreBradley Cooper: Almost as Good as Mark Wahlberg
Bradley Cooper is in talks to replace Mark Wahlberg in David O. Russell‘s The Silver Linings Playbook, about a former high school teacher institutionalized for depression and released into the care of his mother (trend alert!). Cooper is negotiating for the part of the teacher and, in related news, his Limitless costarRobert De Niro will […]
Read moreAugust 1, 2011
Powerless Rankings: How do the Impotent Men of Breaking Bad, Curb, and Louie Measure Up This Week?
How are television’s favorite angry white males of a certain age feeling powerless and put-upon this week? Let us count the ways. 3. Louis C.K. (Last week: 3) Predicament: Following a bravura, wordless, six-minute intro, in which Louie walks out of the Comedy Cellar after his set amid applause, and into the subway where a […]
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See the First Photos of Bane’s Cargo Pants in The Dark Knight Rises
Is there anything stupider-looking than set photos from a superhero movie? Not really! But here are some pictures from this weekend’s The Dark Knight Rises shoot in Pittsburgh anyway. The challenge for Christopher Nolan’s trilogy-finisher will be finding a way to shoehorn silly villains like Bane (Tom Hardy) and Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) into a Gotham […]
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True Blood: Vampire Business
Don’t you hate when you’re screwing around on the couch in the freshman lounge with your ex-boyfriend’s best frenemy and the Vampire RA walks in? Bill is such a fangblocker, stopping Eric and Sookie from getting to second base. Bill cuffs Eric and tells Sookie it’s strictly vampire business, because he is a vampire businessman. […]
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Leonardo DiCaprio Close to Violence
Leonardo DiCaprio is circling a lead role in Todd Field‘s (In the Bedroom, Little Children) The Creed of Violence, a Western based on the recent book by Boston Teran about a criminal who smuggles weapons into Mexico in 1910 but ends up in the custody of a government agent who turns out to be his […]
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