Among his many accomplishments, Patton Oswalt is rightly famous for his ability to talk for basically forever on any number of topics, something he once proved—at length—on behalf of Star Wars, the X-Men, and Parks And Recreation’s people of Pawnee. Now, Oswalt’s latest gig, NBC’s A.P. Bio, has tapped into his ability…
One of the fun parts of any season of IFC’s hit comedy anthology Documentary Now! is seeing the slowly growing list of genres and cinematic milestones that Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Seth Meyers, and Rhys Thomas have decided to apply their gentle-but-insightful spoofing of the documentary format to next. And while…
Despite the best/worst efforts of The Mist TV show and The Dark Tower, Stephen King adaptations are still a big deal in Hollywood, and now yet another one is getting lined up. According to The Hollywood Reporter, James Wan (director of The Conjuring) and Roy Lee (a producer on It) are developing an adaptation of…
For all its reserved presentation, there’s a healthy element of tantrum-ness to Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, Phantom Thread. Although he mostly shows it with snippy dialogue and rigidly controlled schedules, Daniel Day-Lewis’ Reynolds Woodcock is a fussy little dude, something made especially clear in a deleted…
In 2014, Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games, claiming that a trashy celebrity character in Grand Theft Auto V named Lacey Jonas was clearly an “unequivocal” representation of her. Lohan’s suit went into detail about the character’s clothes, saying the character’s “hats, hair…
Welcome back to Trailer Happy Hour, where we collect the day’s teasers, trailers, promo spots, and general pop culture marketing detritus, and boil them all down to one simple, easy-to-digest digest. Today, we have on-tap a murderous Margot Robbie, a priest on the edge, a former spy getting farted on, and a…
In an extensive report from BuzzFeed, cartoonist John Kricfalusi—the creator of iconic Nickelodeon series Ren & Stimpy—has been accused of sexually exploiting teenage girls, promising them careers in animation at his studio Spumco while allegedly grooming them for sexual relationships. One of the women, Robyn Byrd,…
Fox News host Laura Ingraham is—in her own mind, at least—currently experiencing the deep spiritual communion that comes from suffering like Jesus Christ did on the road to Golgotha, her body bent and her face caked with the spittle of online throngs pummeling her with bloodthirsty cries of, “What the hell is wrong…
John Mulaney has a long and storied history with Saturday Night Live; as the co-creator—and frequent breaker—of Bill Hader’s beloved Weekend Update correspondent Stefon, Mulaney spent six years on the show’s writing staff, filling it with some of its strangest, funniest jokes of the last several years. Outside the…
The two Walking Dead shows, the vanilla version and Fear The, have had largely similar settings. The main show has stayed in the general Atlanta area and Fear The Walking Dead has hung to the West Coast, which both tend to be relatively warm regions, but Walking Dead executive producer Greg Nicotero would like to…
It’s a scary time to be an immigrant in America; although the Trump White House’s loudest rhetoric about the “dangers” of illegal immigration has died down from its early-2017 peak to a low, still very scary roar, the Department Of Homeland Security’s ICE agency continues to work largely unabated in its efforts to…
The Weeknd knows you’ve been working oh so very hard, and thinks you’ve earned a little something special. He wants to give you what you want tonight—assuming what you want is a fresh batch of glitchy, druggy pop-R&B sex jams.
Beetlejuice isn’t a particularly dark movie, even if it is about death, haunted dinner parties, and Alec Baldwin making a miniature model town (what was that all about?), but its ending is still even cheerier than a lot of movies that don’t open with Geena Davis dying in a car accident. According to Larry Wilson, one…
Al Swearingen’s had his surprisingly decorous say, and now it’s Seth Bullock’s turn to chime in on the Deadwood movie that’s moving slower than molasses to preproduction.
There are many reasons Arrested Development continued to stick around in the cultural zeitgeist after its unceremonious cancellation, but one of them has got to be the fact that people wouldn’t stop quoting every damn line all the damn time. It’s a testament to Mitch Hurwitz’s writing team that nearly every second of…
In Acquired Tastes, The Takeout explores the food and drinks we can’t live without.
Anyone going to see a movie that’s supposedly “based on true events” knows that what they’re actually getting is the Hollywood version of events. That means certain elements or characters have been cut, the timeline has been reordered, and things have generally been made more dramatic to serve the narrative. But for…
There are a few ingredients essential to any successful romantic comedy. First, the characters have to live in an expensive city and have really nice apartments despite working as, like, freelance dog photographers or culture bloggers. Second, their love interest has to be a prickly pseudo-jerk who, if he can just…
Folks, somebody fucking bit Beyoncé. Who bit Beyoncé? That is the question, and it will not go unanswered.
“Did you ever stop to wonder about your actions? The price you’d have to pay if there was a reckoning? ...That reckoning is here.” With these words from Evan Rachel Woods’ Dolores, the action begins in what’s easily the darkest Westworld trailer yet.
