Herein, we discuss lots of movie deaths. This entire post (and video) is full of spoilers.
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Top Chef Returns: You’re Texas Toast
Last night saw the debut of Top Chef Texas, and true to the popular cliché about the nation’s largest state (until Alaska ruined everything), it was bigger. I have long since learned that it is pointless to really judge a Top …
Daniel Craig Returns in New James Bond Film Skyfall
Fifty years to the day since Sean Connery was cast as James Bond in Dr. No, the latest installment of one of the world’s most popular film franchises was announced. Skyfall, which is officially the 23rd Bond film, will be …
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South Park‘s 1% Solution
Sometimes South Park makes strong episodes out of topical stories that are happening in the news. Sometimes it makes strong episodes out of non-topical stories that involve its main characters dealing with childhood. Given that …
Tower Heist: Occupy the Penthouse
The timely Tower Heist, which is twice as funny as I thought it would be but not half as funny as it could have been, is about a working class rebellion among the service employees in a luxury Manhattan high-rise. Their target in …
The Otherworldly Charms of Florence + the Machine
Florence Welch doesn’t dance. She writhes. The striking auburn-haired singer who fronts Florence + the Machine likes to perform in long, robe-like gowns and sing sweeping ballads full of majestic imagery: stars, the universe, …
Why Top Chef Is Bad for Gastronomy
The Bravo juggernaut is creating a generation of young cooks who think that they’re ready for primetime.
Watch: The Official Grand Theft Auto V Trailer
The trailer for Grand Theft Auto V has just been released and it’s back to the West Coast for the franchise. Goodbye Liberty City (a.k.a New York) and hello Los Santos (a.k.a Los Angeles). The game is due to be release sometime next year.
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Could Sex-Scandal Coverage Be Doing Herman Cain a Favor?
If there’s one thing people who follow politics are trained to believe, it’s that sex scandals bring politicians down. A sexual harassment scandal, doubly so. And an inartful response to a sexual harassment scandal, triply. So after Politico reported that Herman Cain had been accused of harassment by former employees who received …
In Stephen King’s Latest, Trying to Stop Lee Harvey Oswald
I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read The Long Walk, one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read The Dark Half, which taught me a word I have …
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First Horse Out of the Gate: HBO to Sneak-Peek Luck Pilot
HBO has announced a premiere date, Jan. 29, for its David Milch / Michael Mann horseracing drama Luck. But should you care to lay odds on it early, the network will run a sneak preview of the pilot episode on Dec. 11, after the season finale of Boardwalk Empire. Then HBO will hold its horses, so to speak, for a month and a half, when it …
‘Dancing with the Stars’ Week 7: Justin Bieber Performs. Oh, And Someone Exits.
Get into last night’s episode of Dancing with the Stars, there were six remaining contestants.
I Want My MTV: Drugs and Money and Cows in Boardrooms
An alternative title for I Want My MTV: The Uncensored History of the Music Video Revolution could be Drugs and Money. As we learn in Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum’s splendid oral history, music video production fueled a …