The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
August 11, 2014
Blockbuster Talk: Two Dance Movie Maniacs Put ‘Step Up All In’ Through Its Paces
Where hath all the dancing gone?
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The Time-Traveling, Genre-Mashing, Pulp Historical Fiction of ‘Outlander’
The excellent new time-travel-historical-romance hybrid has much more in common with its name-alike ‘Highlander’ than with any sort of Fabio-covered bodice-ripper (though there’s some bodice ripping, too).
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Box Office by the Numbers: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Defeats ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
The overall August box office is looking unexpectedly strong.
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Songs of the Week: The Knocks, Lace Curtains, FKA Twigs, and (Even) Young(er) Lorde
Hear seven days of jams.
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The Right Reasons Podcast: ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Premiere, and Taste-Testing Pretzel Bites
Juliet Litman and David Jacoby talk about the ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ premiere and taste-test various types of pretzel bites.
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Grantland Reality TV Fantasy League: Nearing the Naked Network
‘Bachelor in Paradise’ dominated the week in reality TV, but ABC’s new psychotic sexfest in seclusion wasn’t the only meat on the reality TV bone. Bravo also trotted out the latest in “Rich Women Arguing” programming, while ‘Naked and Afraid’ continued to push us toward the inevitable Naked Network.
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Video on Demand Report: ‘Divergent’ Is Yet Another Teen Dystopia Movie
Also: Aaron Paul’s ‘Need for Speed,’ James Franco’s ‘Palo Alto,’ and a romantic comedy with a secret.
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Hollywood Prospectus Special: The Soderpod
Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey tracked the staggering career arc of Steven Soderbergh. Here they are, in podcast form, talking about the films of Soderbergh.
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California Dreamin’: Jenny Lewis, Stevie Nicks, and Sisters of the Moon
Jenny Lewis’s ‘The Voyager,’ Stevie Nicks’s ‘24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault,’ and the lives of female rockers.
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Cowabunga, Dud! The Spectacularly Dumb ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’
In this mini opus of spectacularly wasteful anti-seriousness, you need an actor, Megan Fox, whose anti-seriousness titillates while, say, she dangles from a collapsing tower.
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Judd Apatow Will Produce a Lonely Island Movie
Get T-Pain and Michael Bolton on the phone.
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‘I’m Not a Visionary’: The Staggering Career Arc of Steven Soderbergh
A jaunt through the restless auteur’s brilliant (and sometimes not-so-brilliant) filmography.
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