0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 2/21/2015
Earlier this week, I wrote that I don’t feel very excited about this year’s Academy Awards. But I used to do Oscar predictions annually at my personal blog (self-indulgent link), haven’t done so in a couple of years and kind of miss it. So here are my picks for the 2015 Oscars. Unfortunately, I think […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 2/20/2015
I love the Academy Awards. I always have. Well, maybe not so much when I was younger. Though I did make a point of noting who won Best Picture every year, I doubt I was following the awards closely when I was a teenager or college student, unless there was a particular film I was […]
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Just in time for the 87th annual Academy Awards this Sunday (Feb. 22), Sesame Street has produced a parody of one of the Best Picture favorites, Birdman. If you haven’t seen Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), this might not be all that funny to you. But if you haven’t seen the film, why […]
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Getting a new video from Sleater-Kinney is cool enough. But how about a video with the band in the world of Bob’s Burgers? That’s what the band and the Fox cartoon have produced for the song “A New Wave.” In the video, Sleater-Kinney rocks out in the bedroom of Tina Belcher (the coolest teenager on […]
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When director Zack Snyder cast Jason Momoa to play Aquaman in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and subsequent DC Comics superhero films (including a standalone Aquaman film in 2018), it was fair to guess that the King of the Seven Seas wasn’t going to be the clean-cut gentleman we saw on the Super Friends […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 2/18/2015
With Pizza Hut basically cornering the market on what can be stuffed inside a pizza crust, Little Caesars is pushing the boundaries of possibility for the crust itself. The pizza chain announced on Wednesday that it will be rolling out a deep dish pizza with bacon wrapped around the crust. The “Bacon Wrapped Crust Deep! […]
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If you’ve recently taken a bite out of a Baby Ruth or Butterfinger candy bar and thought, “Man, this just doesn’t taste natural,” Nestle is addressing your taste buds’ concerns. According to a report by the Washington Post‘s Lindsey Bever, Nestle is removing artificial flavors and colors to make its products more natural. For example, […]
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Is TBS actually providing less Seinfeld for the money? Or rather, is the network making its syndicated reruns of the show faster to make more money? That’s what a dedicated fan posted on Reddit, demonstrating video evidence that TBS is speeding up its broadcasts of Seinfeld reruns to allow more room for commercials. Here’s the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 2/17/2015
If you were among those who thought John Oliver would be an ideal replacement for Jon Stewart on The Daily Show (and I raise my hand for believing so), HBO shot down such talk definitively on Tuesday by renewing Last Week Tonight for two more seasons. You can read the official press release here. I […]
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Long-time fans of Modern Family know that Phil Dunphy is a big fan of Apple products. In the show’s first season, an episode titled “Game Changer” was essentially a commercial for the new iPad, largely devoted to Phil wanting Apple’s newest, coolest gadget for his birthday. But Modern Family‘s love affair with Apple products and […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 2/16/2015
What happens when you combine Men in Black with X-Men: First Class and the James Bond franchise, circa 1970? You get Kingsman: The Secret Service, director Matthew Vaughn’s tribute to spy films from past generations that favored style and fun over gritty action and gravely serious plotlines. That might sound like I’m knocking Kingsman for […]
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A haunted house horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro? Sign us up! When can we see this? Referring to del Toro’s new film, Crimson Peak, as a haunted house movie may be reductive, as the story appears to be richer than simply a tale of a house inhabited by ghosts and scarred by terrible […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 2/13/2015
Once word of New York Times writer David Carr passing away began to circulate on Twitter Thursday night, my plans for the evening and day ahead suddenly didn’t feel very important. My original intention was to watch NBC’s The Slap to write a review for Friday morning. Later in the day, I hoped to catch […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 2/12/2015
I consider myself a big fan of Cameron Crowe’s movies (and music writing), but it’s difficult to argue that he’s made a good film since Almost Famous in 2000. Since then, he’s directed Vanilla Sky (2001), Elizabethtown (2005) and We Bought a Zoo (2011) — along with two documentaries, including 2011’s Pearl Jam Twenty (which […]
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Playing Superman has not typically led to diverse careers for the actors playing the big blue boy scout. So latching onto another potential franchise is a smart move for Henry Cavill, who’s starring as CIA agent Napoleon Solo in the big screen adaptation of 1960s TV show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (The acronym stands for […]
