0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 12/1/2014
With Friday’s release of the trailer for the latest film in the Star Wars saga, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, I thought it was a good time to go through the connective history of two landmarks of American pop culture, Star Wars and Saturday Night Live. Unfortunately, a lot of the SNL/Star Wars sketches are […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/28/2014
After a few days of false alarms — did you buy the fake (though quite well done) trailer that was circulating or were you Rick-rolled? — the real, official teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now online. Fans in 30 selected markets will get to see the trailer on screen over the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/26/2014
John Oliver and Last Week Tonight are on hiatus for the rest of the year, returning to HBO on Feb. 8, 2015. But he’s still throwing us a few morsels via the show’s YouTube channel. What better time to feed an appetite than just before Thanksgiving? Appropriate to the holiday when we’re all feasting on […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
Saturday Night Live released “Def TED Talks Jam,” a sketch that was cut for time from the Nov. 22 episode hosted by Cameron Diaz. The sketch was written by Michael Che and Bryan Tucker. Jay Pharoah does a pretty great impression of Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons, and it appears that Diaz is wearing the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Apparently, we can’t get enough of Peter Pan. Next week (Thursday, Dec. 4), NBC will broadcast its musical, Peter Pan Live!, starring Allison Williams in the title role and Christopher Walken as Captain Hook. (You can view a trailer here.) However, the boy who wouldn’t grow up gets the big-screen treatment next summer in Pan, directed […]
0 comments by Reva Friedel
I never watched The Hills or Laguna Beach, but rumor has it that Kristin Cavallari was the resident bitch on those shows. No matter how well she can dish it out, she apparently doesn’t like shit talkers. Unfortunately for her, she has had to deal with them in droves this fall, since she is married […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/25/2014
Last weekend, Universal Studios released a teaser for the Jurassic World trailer. Not a teaser trailer, mind you, but something with clips from the full trailer. Like a 15-second trailer for a trailer. I resisted the impulse to check it out and post it here at The AP Party. Because, really, we have to draw the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
What is it like to be Stephen Hawking? How must it feel to be one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, yet be trapped in a body afflicted by motor neuron disease, leaving him almost completely paralyzed and unable to speak? The Theory of Everything won’t necessarily convey that experience to those […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/24/2014
It seems like there’s always a key role to cast in an upcoming superhero movie, whether it’s a good guy, bad guy or supporting character. But one of the biggest villains in X-Men comic book mythology now has an actor ready to take that role. Variety‘s Justin Kroll reports that Oscar Isaac (Drive, Inside Llewyn Davis) […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore
Yes, it’s time for another award show that (somewhat) relevant celebrities agreed to participate in! The American Music Awards — AKA another thing Dick Clark invented — were televised Sunday night (Nov. 23) on ABC. The AMAs always seem like the VMAs but just slightly aged up a little bit in case your parents showed up to […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
We are now seven episodes into the 40th season of Saturday Night Live and things appear to be moving in the right direction. The good sketches are starting to outnumber the bad, and Colin Jost and Michael Che are starting to form some sort of chemistry on “Weekend Update.” Subtract the Chris Rock episode, and this […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 11/22/2014
While the overriding themes of The Hunger Games novels always centered on the politics set in a dystopian future supposedly signaling the path we’ve laid out for ourselves, the films have leaned more on the unintended consequences that shape the world the series is set in. The disappointment from those repercussions always seems to surprise everyone integral to […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 11/21/2014
Fox released its winter premiere dates yesterday, and along with the third season of The Following and the final season of Glee, the winter schedule includes the Will Forte (Saturday Night Live) comedy The Last Man on Earth. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (21 Jump Street, The LEGO Movie) will produce and direct. Created by Forte, […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Jimmy Kimmel putting celebrities on camera to read mean tweets about themselves is always reliable entertainment. The eighth edition of this series from ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live is no exception. This time around, Chris Pratt headlines the latest gaggle of celebrities asked to read insulting, mean-spirited attacks, written in 140 characters or less. Among the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
AMC has been stingy with details for its Breaking Bad spinoff, Better Call Saul. The network did announce that the show had been renewed for a second season roughly eight months before the first episode even airs. And a 10-second teaser featuring star Bob Odenkirk as the title character was released shortly thereafter. Other than […]
