An Academy Award Winner Has Met With Nic Pizzolatto About Directing ‘True...
Getty Image Lost in all the #TrueDetectiveSeason2 casting hubbub is that the show doesn’t have a director. The “heart-attack inducing” Cary Joji Fukunaga was the third best thing about last season...
View ArticleThe King Of Raving Is The MVP Of This Horrible Club Promo Video
YOUTUBE Bounce by the Ounce claims to be not only the “biggest…new rave night in Preston,” but also the “hottest.” That’s a mighty big boast to make, and I’ll give them the Bounce, but the Ounce?...
View ArticleA Recording Of Britney Spears Singing Without Auto-Tune Has Leaked Online
Getty Image No one expects Britney Spears to have a good singing voice. That’s not a knock — she and her team are great at creating pop hits, and it’s not as if “Lucky” would be any better if Brit...
View ArticleMastodon’s Epic Album Covers, Ranked From Least To Most Metal
Getty Image It’s taken me a little bit to fully embrace Once More ‘Round the Sun, Mastodon’s newest album that came out in late-June, but now that I have, I can’t believe I had any hang-ups in the...
View ArticleFX Renewing ‘Fargo’ For Season 2 Should Happen Very Soon
Via UPROXX Fargo turning into one of the best TV shows of the year was a happy surprise. Less of a shock, however, considering the excellent reviews and pretty good ratings, is FX picking up Noah...
View ArticleA Prostitute Has Been Accused Of Murdering A Google Exec Using Heroin
TWITTER Boy meets girl. Boy hires girl. Boy takes hired girl aboard a yacht. Hired girl injects boy with heroin. Boy suffers “medical complications.” Girl pays no attention to boy, and instead drinks...
View ArticleA Father Recorded His Wife Giving Birth Outside A Hospital With A GoPro
“Daddy, can you tell me about the time I was born outside a hospital, and you were recording the entire time using a GoPro?” “Shhhhh, don’t say that word. You know it’s been illegal since Google...
View ArticleHere’s Your Complete List Of 2014 Emmy Awards Nominees
Getty Image Did Emmy voters pay attention to our suggested and forever-spurned nominees? No, no, they did not. But there are still enough worthy people (EXCEPT TATIANA) and shows in the categories...
View Article‘The Strain’ Creator Guillermo Del Toro Discusses The TV Show That Made Him...
Getty Image After months of increasingly WTF marketing, The Strain FINALLY premieres this Sunday at 9 p.m. I’ll have a much longer post tomorrow about my visit to the show’s set and what to expect from...
View ArticleSomeone Made A Supercut Of Every Robot Fight From The ‘Transformers’ Series
DreamWorks Pictures People take the clanging Transformers film series way too f*cking seriously. Here’s a sample comment on the Reddit page for “every single robot-on-robot action sequence from the...
View ArticleThe 5 Things The Emmys Got Right (And 5 They Got Wrong)
BBC AMERICA By now you’ve had enough time to pore through this year’s Emmy nominees, and you’re either really mad or really *shrug*. Both sides make good points, and like it is every year, the Emmys...
View ArticleA Brief History Of Spotted-In-The-Crowd Sports Fans Who Became Famous
Getty Image Yesterday our very own Burnsy told you about Axelle Despiegelaere, the 17-year-old Belgian girl whose name is worth 89 points in Scrabble. Also, she recently got a modeling contract after...
View ArticleWatch Rihanna Give A Very Lucky Nerd A Very Awkward Lap Dance
YOUTUBE The only time I’ve ever been brought on stage during a concert was a few years ago, when Yo La Tengo lead singer Ira Kaplan pointed my way and told me, and a few other lucky fans, to drum along...
View ArticleEllie Kemper Made A Music Video About Selfish ‘Star Wars’ Fanboys With Neko Case
YOUTUBE In “These Aren’t the Droids,” a single from the new comedy-music benefit compilation 2776: A Millennium of American Asskickery, Neko Case and Kelly Hogan imagine a future that looks like a...
View ArticleWhat’s On Tonight: Amy Poehler’s Brother Has An NBC Sitcom, Too
NBC Hollywood Game Night (NBC, 8 p.m.) — Tonight’s contestants include Margaret Cho, Scott Wolf, Matthew Morrison, Martha Stewart, Mena Suvari, and Curtis Stone. What a horrible dinner party. Rectify...
View ArticleHere Are 10 Things We Learned When We Visited The Set Of FX’s ‘The Strain’
FX 1. It was approximately zero degrees when I arrived in Toronto this past March to visit the set of The Strain, FX’s highly anticipated horror series that debuts this Sunday at 9 p.m. (Did I go to...
View ArticleSomeone Finally Called Out Steven Spielberg For Being A Dinosaur-Killing Monster
Universal Pictures Hold on to your butts, but people on Facebook are idiots. To mock the uproar over the blonde cheerleader and her exotic (and dead) trophy animals, Jay Branscomb put a picture of...
View ArticleThe ‘F*ck Her Right In The P*ssy’ Meme Is Getting Violent
It was fun while it lasted, but the “f*ck her right in the p*ssy” meme has gone too F*CK HER RIGHT IN THE P*SSY. During a live broadcast at the Taste of Chicago event, a WGN reporter was videobombed...
View ArticleYour Least Favorite ‘The Simpsons’ Episode Has A Premiere Date
FOX Fox released their fall schedule yesterday, meaning we know exactly how many days are left until the dreaded The Simpsons/Family Guy crossover that the Parasite to my Worker, Danger, succinctly...
View ArticleCan Keri Russell’s Legs On ‘Late Night’ Get An Emmy Nomination?
NBC With all due respect to Lizzy Caplan, who is the best, the Emmy category she’s nominated in, Outstanding Lead Actress In a Drama Series, is the worst. I’ve already bitched at length about the lack...
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