0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/17/2015
Saturday Night Live has announced the hosts for its first three shows of the upcoming season. Miley Cyrus headlines the season premiere on Oct. 3, followed by perhaps the hottest comedian in pop culture right now. The Summer of Schumer continues with Amy Schumer hosting the following week on Oct. 10. But the name with […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/14/2015
I can’t pretend that I listened to or was any sort of fan of N.W.A. or Straight Outta Compton when it came out in 1988. Anyone who grew up with me at the time — in my white, metal-listening world — would laugh at me even pretending otherwise. But close friends of mine certainly played […]
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Sesame Street is getting quite an upgrade, thanks to a generous benefactor. The longtime children’s program is partnering up with HBO in a pairing that will nearly double the number of new episodes produced. According to the New York Times‘ Emily Steel, the Sesame Workshop and HBO will now produce 35 original episodes, as opposed […]
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Ten years ago, Bradley Cooper played a star chef in a TV adaptation of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential for Fox. The show only lasted for four episodes, in part because of being put on hiatus during the MLB playoffs. Cooper has obviously gone on to far bigger and better things, but the idea of playing […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/13/2015
We don’t really know much about Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film, The Hateful Eight. But do we need to know much more than “Directed by Quentin Tarantino”? Oh, and it’s hitting theaters on Christmas Day. But that will only be a present for some of us, as the Christmas rollout will be a limited release shown on […]
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The first time I encountered the Fantastic Four was at the impressionable age of five, during the autumn of 1978. At the time, I was just beginning to understand the Marvel Universe, and my breakthrough was through the Saturday morning cartoon. The show didn’t even have the true Fantastic Four (referred to by their standard […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/12/2015
The CW gets it when it comes to staying true to DC Comics’ original roots. More specifically, the network allows producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg to be unapologetically geeky in its faithfulness to the four-color source material that spawned The Flash, his rogues gallery and supporting cast. An important character in the character’s mythology […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/11/2015
Arrow star Stephen Amell and WWE wrestler Stardust have been puffing their chests out at each other since May, when the grappler got in the actor’s face at ringside during a taping of RAW in New York. Since then, the two have taunted one another through social media, presumably building toward some kind of event. […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/10/2015
The success of Game of Thrones (and True Blood, to a lesser extent) has encouraged HBO to continue making ambitious programming in the science fiction and fantasy realm. With Westworld, the network looks to be making a push into harder sci-fi that explores the psychology of its characters and maybe challenges the nature of reality, […]
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Releasing a suspense thriller in August didn’t seem to bode well for The Gift, which looked as if it could be a Fatal Attraction or Single White Female type of film that might get chewed up against the likes of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Fantastic Four, or the upcoming Straight Outta Compton and The Man […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/7/2015
I’m not sure any recent movie is more difficult to judge purely on its own merits than Fantastic Four. Devoted Marvel Comics fans, who grew up reading the adventures of Reed Richards, Ben Grimm and Sue and Johnny Storm, probably won’t like this 2015 version because it barely resembles what Stan Lee and Jack Kirby […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/4/2015
We got our six seasons. So will we ever get that movie? After being canceled by NBC, Community had a sixth season on Yahoo! Screen. But the show’s run is over, according to star Joel McHale, who dropped the bad news in an interview with Washington, D.C.’s Metro Weekly. Is it getting another season on […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/3/2015
OK, it’s probably true that we’ve given an undue amount of attention to Olivia Munn’s upcoming role as telekinetic ninja assassin Psylocke in next summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse. But she has geek cred from her days co-hosting Attack of the Show, and going from breakout roles like Sloan Sabbith on HBO’s The Newsroom to a superhero […]
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Ripping on season two of True Detective has become popular sport in pop culture. (Though there’s still hope the series will redeem itself in its final episodes.) But what do the original TD duo of Marty Hart and Rust Cohle think of Nic Pizzolatto’s sophomore TV effort? Or maybe more specifically, what does Hart think […]
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I wasn’t really a Prince fan growing up. My cousin used to torment me by playing “Little Red Corvette.” I didn’t really become one until the Batman/Graffiti Bridge one-two punch in 1989 and 1990. Then I got deep. Used to buy records on the day of release. Read a lot of Uptown magazine. I was […]
