The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
January 14, 2014
2014’s First Kanye-versy Is Here, and It Involves Violence
Here’s a bewildering new report erupting from Mount TMZ: An 18-year-old white male, possibly helping Kim Kardashian enter a doctor’s office as paparazzi hounded her, began hollering a variety of intense epithets at the photogs, including the n-word. Kim attempted correcting the young man’s improper nomenclature and was allegedly met with the following: “Fuck you, […]
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‘Her’ and Rooney Mara, Spike Jonze’s Anti-Twombly
Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola’s cinematic breakup, and a man-child’s worst nightmare.
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Freak Show & Tell: Glow-in-the-Dark Boobs
All the best parts from My Strange Addiction, Couples Therapy, and Sex Sent Me to the ER.
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Leo Out? Gandolfini In? Redford on the Bubble? Calling the Best Actor Categories
Why Oscar Isaac’s on the outside and Leo DiCaprio’s still in play.
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Johnny Depp Might Be Marvel’s Doctor Strange
Captain Jack Sparrow, no matter how perfectly suited to Halloween costumery, just isn’t a superhero. So 50-year-old Johnny Depp needs to hustle up and crack the comic book movie market while he can still play a hero rather than an aging mentor. Fortunately Marvel has got just the part. “A well-connected source informed me tonight […]
Read moreJanuary 13, 2014
Afternoon Links: The Newsroom Renewed for a Third and Final Season
Days after HBO announced that Boardwalk Empire‘s fifth season would be its last, The Newsroom has also trained its sights on the end of the road. The show’s third season, bowing this fall, will officially be Aaron Sorkin and Will McAvoy’s last chance to bluster righteously and Coldplayishly. Just to keep things spicy, The Office‘s onetime […]
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‘The Legend of Hercules,’ by the Numbers
This weekend, Kellan Lutz’s The Legend of Hercules tumbled into theaters and summarily flopped, managing only $8.6 million on a $70 million budget. Worse news for Mr. Lutz: Later this year, the Rock will be getting a turn onscreen as the all-powerful demigod.
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A Tale of Two Dons: DeLillo’s ‘Forgotten Memoir’ and Novello’s Yearbook About Sheep
Judging by the Amazon reviews (“cleo birdwell, where are you?”; “I was surprised Cleo Birdwell used the language she did in this book”), Don DeLillo was successful in distancing himself from 1980’s Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League, written under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell. According […]
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The Great ‘Archer’ Returns and Reboots, While ‘Chozen’ Comes Out Strong
For a long time The Simpsons was the fastest show on television. A combination of highly caffeinated, Harvard-educated show-offs in the writers’ room and the complete creative freedom afforded by animation transformed what was originally intended to be a straight (if yellow) family sitcom into an ADD-explosion of satire, asides, cutaways, and jokes so in […]
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Tarantino’s New One Is Called ‘The Hateful Eight,’ and It Could Star Bruce Dern and Christoph Waltz
Quentin Tarantino’s working hard to make sure he ends up as famous for gut-punch titles as he is for indulgent banter and splashy violence. The Hateful Eight is the latest in the bunch, joining thunderbolts like Inglourious Basterds, Death Proof, and Kill Bill. It’ll be a Western, following Django Unchained and marking the first genre […]
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The ‘Girls’ Season 3 Premiere: Tacos, Pregnancy Scares, and Oversize Frog Shirts
Chatting about last night’s double-episode season premiere
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New, Improved, Feminist Beyonce Writes an Op-Ed for Maria Shriver’s New Book
Beyoncé is full of fun surprises these days. How did she choose to follow up the huge success of her secret-until-the-last-possible-second fifth album? By writing an essay about feminism for Maria Shriver’s new book! The latest installment from The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink (published with the Center for American […]
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The Golden Globes After-Party: A Big Night for the Amys, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s E-Cig Addiction, and More Notes From Hollywood’s Drunkest Night
The show is over, but the after-party rages on. Join the Grantland staff as we try to piece together the events of the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards.
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Predicting the Best Actress Races
J-Law, Cate Blanchett, and a depressingly shallow bench.
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Box Office Top Five: Wahlberg Wins It With ‘Lone Survivor’
1. Lone Survivor, $38.5 million (first weekend in wide release) Either the movie stat experts are total assassins at what they do or new movies really are breaking old records all the time. Lone Survivor’s new claim to nerdy number-crunching fame is that the film starring Mark Wahlberg is the second-highest January opening of all […]
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