It’s often hard to see the moment where aspirations of seriousness cross the line into pretension. Part of the problem with Rememory, an entertaining film bearing a title so awful it deserves some sort of special…
As reported by Deadline, Netflix has give a straight-to-series, two season order to Ratched, a new drama series from Ryan Murphy. The show is going to be a prequel to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest that focuses on the prickly Nurse Ratched (played by Oscar winner Louise Fletcher in the film), with Sarah Paulson…
Julia Louis-Dreyfus has confirmed that her Emmy-and-Peabody-winning political satire Veep will end its run with its next, seventh season, expected to air some time next year. The series—which saw Louis-Dreyfus’ Selina Meyer win the presidency, lose the presidency, and then doggedly try to win the presidency yet…
As reported by Variety, Gavin O’Connor has been hired to write and direct Suicide Squad 2, the DC movie sequel about the continuing adventures of the Joker, Harley Quinn, and some other characters who don’t move as much Hot Topic merchandise as they do. O’Connor was the guy behind 2016's Ben Affleck thriller The…
It was mildly exciting when rotting frog person Steve Bannon got fired from Trump’s White House, if only because it seemed less likely that he could use his influential position to summon the ghosts of dead presidents for his twisted schemes, but Bannon never really went away. He rejoined his evil cabal at Breitbart,…
CBS’s insatiable hunger for police procedurals and TV shows based off of popular films hit another milestone today, with Variety reporting that a TV version of L.A. Confidential is currently in the works. Based off of James Ellroy’s novel—pared down by director Curtis Hanson into an Oscar-winning noir classic in…
Let’s be honest here: the fictional country of Westeros, as we’ve seen it portrayed in books and HBO’s Game of Thrones, is kind of a shithole. Not only that, it’s currently on the brink of invasion by hundreds of thousands (perhaps more) undead warriors. Most people seem to think this is Bad News for Westeros. But not…
Back in May, we announced—with a mixture of dread, aroused revulsion, and the sweet tang of corporate synergy—that our sister site Clickhole had finally given in to the times and transformed itself into PatriotHole, the ultimate anti-vaccination vaccination against America’s current epidemic of liberal kindness and…
Like hundreds of thousands of other people around the world, Tananarive Due saw Get Out earlier this year. Blown away by the hit horror movie, the author and educator decided to design a semester-long special course about how horror and anti-black racism have intertwined in the cinema.
It’s been a while since Jonathan Pryce’s High Sparrow got blown up on Game Of Thrones, but now he’s once again returning to the high-stakes world of religious intrigue with a new Netflix original movie called The Pope. That comes from Deadline, which says Pryce will play Pope Francis, the current guy in the big hat…
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It was announced earlier this year that the 1988 black comedy Heathers would be revived in the form of a television show. While a teaser trailer has been released, fans will have to wait until 2018 to see the first episode. In the mean time, we’ll settle for the next best thing: an interview with the new Heathers. In…
The supervillaining of Martin Shkreli took another step toward elaborate underground bases and plots to kill Superman this week, with MarketWatch reporting that the recently convicted “pharma bro”/would-be Voldemort has placed his one-of-a-kind copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon A Time In Shaolin on eBay, possibly as…
Which sounds more painful to watch, for those sensitive to animal suffering: a deer being shot for sport, or a rhinoceros being forcibly held down and having its horn sawed off? Trophy, a documentary about the uneasy, seemingly oxymoronic junction of big-game hunting and conservation efforts, kicks off by showing both…
It’s always fascinating when you can experience something through the eyes of someone who really knows or cares a lot about it, and that’s definitely the case for a series of tweets from aviation writer Jason Rabinowitz who followed one daredevil Delta flight as it managed to narrowly avoid Hurricane Irma as it made…
On FX’s Legion, Rachel Keller’s Syd and Jeremie Harris’ Ptonomy have two of the coolest power sets the show has to offer. Syd can swap minds with anyone she touches, while Ptonomy is a “memory artist,” able to remember anything and transport people back into their memories. But as cool as those powers are, we knew…
Joel Osteen is a grade-A piece of shit, a grinning huckster slinging snake oil in the name of god, and about as pure a manifestation of human evil as can be imagined. Justin Roiland, on the other hand, is a comic genius, author of two and a half seasons of sublime character-based comedy that cloaks itself as a gonzo…
“Um, I guess my question is, do you... Do you think it’s too late for me? I mean, am I just doomed to be the person that I am? The... The person in that book? It’s not too late for me, is it? It’s... It’s not too late Diane, I need you to tell me that it’s not too late. I... I need you to tell me that I’m a good…
They find her down by the banks of the Meuse: a teenager, dead from a blow to the head, no identification on her. She is the unknown girl of The Unknown Girl, and though we really only see her twice, in a photograph and in a quick flash of surveillance footage, she casts a long shadow over this latest drama from…
Earlier this year, Bill Maher seemed to make a dedicated effort to ensure that his Real Time show on HBO was as intolerable as possible, first by booking famous asshole Milo Yiannopoulos and then by casually dropping the n-word on live TV. Everybody forgot about the first thing after the second thing, but that second…
