The One Scene in ‘The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story’ That Wasn’t Terrible

On August 7, a terribly rude sentence was published on Grantland.com about the upcoming TV movie ‘The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story’: “I hope Obama sends everyone involved to prison.”

Before posting this opinion, however, the author consulted with his editor, worried that such a statement was too harsh to make about an entire movie, based off a two-minute-and-33-second clip. Perhaps “prison” was a bit too extreme, the author thought. This was, after all, a film about teens played by young adults, starring young adults made to look like teens.

Five Thoughts on Julian Casablancas’s New 11-Minute Experimental Track, ‘Human Sadness’

This is Julian’s “Only in Dreams.” It might be better than “Only in Dreams”? This coming from someone who was never that big of an “Only in Dreams” fan.

Status Bro: The Inauthentic Authenticity of Maroon 5

Because the Internet exists, surely there are people who are deeply invested in whatever feelings they have for Maroon 5. But as someone paid to have opinions about pop music, I kept having the same problem while listening to ‘V’: This is a group for whom I have not a single discernible emotion or thought.

Freak Show and Tell: The Mommy Issues Finally Rear Their Head on ‘Married at First Sight’

All the best parts from ‘Married at First Sight,’ ‘Extreme Guide to Parenting,’ and ‘Preachers of L.A.’

‘The Hateful Eight’ 101: A Look at the Films, Characters, and Ideas That Might Shape the New Quentin Tarantino Western

So much of the appeal of Quentin Tarantino’s direction can’t be found on the page — it’s in the performances, music, composition, and, of course, the intertextual relationships with other movies. Those references are one of the great pleasures of his work, and they can provide a sort of road map to understanding his art.

Jen Won: The Brangelina Wedding and the Conclusion to the Tabloid Story of the Decade

What if the most important tabloid story of the last decade finally climaxed and nobody cared?

The Michael Keaton Comeback and Four Other Key Stories Out of the (Increasingly Important) Venice Film Festival

Lisa Cholodenko and HBO’s ‘Olive Kitteridge’ is great, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’ is fantastic, and Al Pacino has two new films.

Summer Box Office Report: How Screwed Is Hollywood? (Pretty Screwed)

The top 10 movies of 2014 have taken in considerably less than those of 2013.

The 1994 Rap Album Matrix: Is This Hip-Hop’s Greatest Year?

A totally useful scoring chart of the rap albums of 1994.

Taylor Swift Joins ‘The Voice’ in Her Ongoing Mission to Colonize Our Brains for the Next Two Months

Swift is in the middle of a transition to an overall more straightforward pop brand, and if that’s reflected in her role on the show, there aren’t many people more qualified to teach the starry-eyed hopefuls of ‘The Voice’ how to be a capital-P Pop Star.