0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 1/6/2015
The 2015 lineup for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival held in Indio, Calif. was announced on Tuesday. As usual, the two weekends of dates are packed with big-time musical acts. AC/DC, Jack White and Drake headline each segment of the festival, which is divided among Friday, Saturday and Sunday during the weekends of […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
On New Year’s Day, Kanye West released a new song titled “Only One,” which features Paul McCartney. Recorded in Los Angeles, this song is the first of reportedly several collaborations between the rapper and the former Wings frontman for West’s upcoming album. “Only One” is a ballad featuring West’s auto-tuned singing and McCartney on keyboards. […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Channing Tatum has become one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. So if he says he wants to play a superhero, a movie studio would be very smart to set him up with the project he wants. For the past year, Tatum has been rather vocal about wanting to play Gambit, an extremely popular X-Men […]
0 comments by Reva Friedel
The two-hour premiere episode of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice debuted on Sunday night, with an additional two episodes airing Monday. We’re going to recap the premiere below, with Monday’s episodes coming later this week. Before we get to the episode, here is a rundown of the cast: Brandi Glanville, 42 Geraldo Rivera, 71 Gilbert Gottfried, 59 […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
I wasn’t in the KISS Army as a child, but if you had told my young, pre-adolescent self that Paul Stanley would one day be featured in an ad for Folgers coffee, I probably would have thought it was the greatest Folger’s ad ever made. (Years later, I would have assumed Stanley was a total […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 1/5/2015
Sunday’s tragic news of Stuart Scott passing away at the age of 49 led to a variety of touching, heartfelt tributes to the sportscaster from former colleagues on ESPN and NFL Network, as well as peers and fans on social media. While watching ESPN’s 15-minute tribute to its fallen comrade, I wondered if there might […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
If there was any doubt that Scarlett Johansson was a viable female action star, Lucy silenced such questions by making $394 million worldwide in theaters last year. Prior to headlining her own film, Johansson showed she could play an action hero with her performances as Marvel’s Black Widow in Iron Man 2, The Avengers and Captain America: […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/31/2014
I have a love-hate relationship with year-end top 10 movie lists. I love the culmination of the year in moviegoing and thinking about which films stood apart among everything I’ve seen. As New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis once wrote, top 10 lists also serve as a public ritual, allowing one to lay his […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/30/2014
As The Interview developed into a center of national controversy, the question of whether or not the movie was actually any good almost became incidental. First, the comedy about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was the supposed reason for hackers attacking Sony Pictures. When national theater chains pulled the movie from their screens […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 12/29/2014
In a year that saw U2 give an album away for free and piss everyone off, Garth Brooks re-emerge as an “independent artist,” and former Creed frontman Scott Stapp threaten to kill the President, the music world in 2014 can be summed up with one word: pop. The Billboard charts were dominated by artists like […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
John Oliver and Last Week Tonight are still on hiatus from HBO for another six weeks, but our favorite British media critic, social commentator, TV educator and fake newscaster put out a plate of cookies for us to nibble on with a short video on the show’s YouTube channel. (By the way, what kind of […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/23/2014
A week after several national cinema chains decided to pull The Interview from their schedules, thus prompting Sony Pictures to cancel the movie’s theatrical release, it appears some people will get to see the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy on its scheduled Christmas Day release after all. Independent movie theaters and chains had requested to show The […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Has it really been just over three years since Entourage ended its run on HBO? After an eight-season run, there wouldn’t seem to be many more stories to tell about Vincent Chase and his band of brothers. But apparently, that was wrong. The guys are back with a movie. (Eight seasons and a movie? Community‘s […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Is it too easy to say that the Star Trek franchise is looking to get more fast and furious with the third movie of its franchise reboot? (It is, and I apologize.) The new version of the Star Trek films suffered a setback when the director of the first two installments, J.J. Abrams, left to […]
0 comments by Dave Tobener
Part of the genius of Seinfeld was the way it was able to weave so many memorable side characters in and out of each episode. Many of the so-called “minor” players the show created went on to be some of the best known characters in sitcom history. I mean, you have to know someone who […]
