The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
July 15, 2011
2011: Year of the Hot Movie Scientist
There was a time when the portrayal of scientists in movies followed a dependable script: Hire a bug-eyed loon (your Christopher Lloyds, your Brent Spiners, your John Nerdlebaum Frinks), front-load their appearance with as much wordy exposition as possible, then violently dispatch them, the more quickly and ironically the better. This summer, though, big-screen brains […]
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Hollywood Report Card: Bad Santa Gets a Sequel or Two
·News from the front lines of Hollywood’s noble war on Christmas: Desperate for franchises, Dimension Films has commissioned two different scripts for the sequel to 2003’s Billy Bob Thornton-starring alcoholic mall-Santa comedy Bad Santa with the intention of picking the best one — and if they’re both good, the series could become a trilogy. None […]
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Reality TV Fantasy League Scorecard: Bai Ling Flies Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Full Disclosure: We don’t know what we’re doing. One might have assumed that with the embarrassing amount of time we’ve spent on the Grantland Reality TV Fantasy League we would have at least come up with a plan to, you know, end the season and declare a winner. Well, we didn’t. Until now. OK, fine […]
Read moreJuly 14, 2011
Contagion Trailer: Gwyneth Paltrow vs. Bird Flu
Put off by Gwyneth Paltrow’s trademark entitled breeziness? Her casually smug musings about the rigors of raising her rockstar children in an English mansion? Her sudden singing career? Her GOOP? Has Steven Soderbergh got a movie for you!
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Emmy Nominations Get It Mostly Right
Perhaps the most revealing (and damning?) aspect of the Emmy nominations announcement ceremony — held, as always, just before dawn on the West Coast in order to allow Nikki Finke to watch them live before retreating to her coffin — was the manner in which they were broadcast to the majority of the world: via […]
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