Kurt Cobain would have been 45 years old this week. A look back at Nirvana on the cusp of stardom.
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Louie Watch: The Waving Is the Hardest Part
I’ve been generous with the praise for the second season of Louie, so I’ll also be honest about last night’s finale, “New Jersey / Airport”: it was not one of my favorite episodes of the season. (If you’re wondering, I would …
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Dead Tree Alert: Ten Years After; Plus, Showtime’s Rebirth
I don’t have a piece in this week’s TIME magazine, but this issue, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, is a sweeping enough undertaking that I wanted to point it out. Rather than fill out the issue with stories and essays by bloviators like me, the issue focuses on the first-person stories of people who were in the …
Top 10 Epidemic Movies
You might find yourself wanting to hole up at home away from others after watching Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion. Here’s a look at ten other pandemic-focused films to watch during your self-imposed quarantine.
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Breaking News! HBO Picks Up Sorkin’s Cable-News Series
While this may not count as the most stunning development in TV, HBO has made it official: it’s greenlighted a season of Aaron Sorkin‘s yet untitled drama set at a cable news network, starring Jeff Daniels as a talented but difficult high-profile anchor.
With little to go on but the premise and Sorkin’s history, I’m excited, and I’m nervous.
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Rescue Me Watch: Taking the Cake
Spoilers for the series finale of Rescue Me below:
The easy shorthand for Rescue Me has always been that it was a show about the aftermath of 9/11. It was and it wasn’t. In a way, the question for the guys of 62 Truck is a …
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The Morning After: Perry Shoots from the Hip, Wears Bullseye at His First GOP Debate
The positioning of the candidates at last night’s NBC News / Politico debate at the Reagan library told you all you needed to know: squarely in the center were Mitt Romney, the longtime varsity letterman in the GOP primary race, and Rick Perry, the hotshot new quarterback just transferred to the school who suddenly has his pick of …
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The Morning After: Whatcha Going to Do When You Get Out of Jail?
Yesterday I posted some advance thoughts about Sons of Anarchy‘s season four debut and about the path it’s taken in the three years leading up to it. No time for a long writeup of the premiere, “Out,” but here are a few things …
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Oscar Wants to Party All the Time: Eddie Murphy to Host Academy Awards
In one of the most stunning news flashes since the shooting of Buckwheat, Eddie Murphy has been announced as the host of the next Academy Awards broadcast, next Feb. 26 on ABC.
Murphy was apparently recruited as Oscar host by awards co-producer Brett Ratner, who directed him in the forthcoming movie Tower Heist. Murphy will join past …
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TV Tonight: Sons of Anarchy Goes Back to Cali
The third season of Sons of Anarchy was, shall we say, divisive. The chief issue that divided fan from fan, critic from critic, and creator Kurt Sutter from people who criticized creator Kurt Sutter was the season’s long sojourn …
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Plenty of Chances to Meet Fox’s New Girl
Fox is deeply convinced that you will love Zooey Deschanel this fall in its comedy New Girl. But if you are not thus persuaded yet, then by God, Fox is going to help you learn to love her by any means necessary. To that end, Variety reports, the network today will begin previewing the show’s pilot in various forums online, two weeks …
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Breaking Bad Watch: Chickenman! He’s Everywhere! He’s Everywhere!
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, ask your elderly criminal uncle if he would change the channel so you can watch last night’s Breaking Bad.
This month at the Emmys, Breaking Bad is going to step aside and make some …
Soderbergh’s Contagion: Don’t Touch Gwyneth Paltrow!
With Contagion, the real fear comes when you leave the theater. The film dramatizes, with brisk ruthlessness, the dangers of touching anyone who may be infected — or anything he or she may have touched