And This Is Sir Mix-A-Lot Performing ‘Baby Got Back’ With an Orchestra
If you knew “Baby Got Back” was impeccably suited to an orchestral rendition, I owe you something nice. But until I get your prize together, we can sit together and bask in the glory of composer...
View ArticleAnne Hathaway and Kristen Stewart Dude It Up for Jenny Lewis’s New Video
Erstwhile Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis is continuing the celebrified music video week begun yesterday by Weird Al’s “Tacky.” For her entry, Lewis grabbed some Adidas tracksuits and snapbacks and...
View ArticleThe First Trailer for ‘The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies’ Is Here
You think you know what happened to Lester Nygaard after the season finale of FX’s Fargo, but here’s the real, unvarnished truth, discovered by two detectives named J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson:...
View ArticleThe Mystery of ‘Gone Girl’ May Drive Us Mad Before the Movie’s Even Out
These Finchertastic trailers for Gone Girl are starting to drive me insane. I know there’s some kind of a, like, book out there that features the same plot as this movie? I just haven’t read it yet!...
View ArticleWatch Jeff Goldblum Put Lyrics to the ‘Jurassic Park’ Theme
Jurassic Park spawned enough sub-content to fill the Mariana Trench. But it wasn’t until Tuesday, September 9 — 21 years and three months after Jurassic Park’s release — that we received the very best...
View ArticlePixar’s New ‘Inside Out’ Teaser Is Really a Reminder of Why Pixar Rules
Pixar’s last movie was Monsters University. “Where’s their by-now annual film?!” you ask? NOWHERE. There is no 2014 Pixar movie. So, in case you’ve forgotten what Pixar is during this long, magic-less...
View ArticleJerry Seinfeld Wins Advertising Award, Rips Industry to Shreds
“I love advertising, because I love lying,” said Jerry Seinfeld early into his acceptance speech at the Clios last week, where he got an honorary award for his work with Acura. The speech went on,...
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Glover’s Lane
On December 5, 2014, musician Childish Gambino was nominated for two Grammys, for his album Because the Internet (Best Rap Album) and song “3005” (Best Rap Performance). One week later, on December 12,...
View ArticleCommon Core: The Return of ‘Community’ and the Struggles of Late-Life Sitcoms
Thanks to the Internet, nothing ever really dies. Facebook profiles outlive the people who created them. Massive failures are kept aloft by a cadre of reality-defying obsessives. And everything from...
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Hump Day: The Utterly OMG ‘Magic Mike XXL’
There we all were the other night, laughing and clapping and whooping it up at Magic Mike XXL, a movie whose plot can fit on a Post-it. Five of the exotic dancers from Steven Soderbergh’s 2012 hit,...
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