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Watch Bloody, Witty New 'Deadpool' Red Band Trailer
11 hours ago
Perhaps more than any other superhero film, Deadpool's path from comic books to the big screen was paved with the help of a loud, fervent fan base that launched a grassroots campaign to get the movie made. To reward those fans this Christmas, before Deadpool arrives in theatres this February, another bloody, funny red band trailer of the Ryan Reynolds-starring action flick was unveiled, with the three-minute preview laying the foundation of the wisecracking, fourth wall-shattering hero's origin story.
Like the first red band trailer that premiered in August, »
Daniel Stern Reprises 'Home Alone' Thief in Response to Macaulay Culkin Video
12 hours ago
Macaulay Culkin recently revisited his Home Alone character in a creepy video that posited that all of the childhood trauma turned an adult Kevin McCallister into an jittery, murderous Uber driver. In an equally dark response video, actor Daniel Stern, who played the thief Marv in the first two Home Alone films, reprises his role to warn his Wet Bandits partner-in-crime that the McCallister kid is grown up and seeking revenge. "I saw it on the Internet! The kid is coming to get us," Stern's Marv yells with a high-pitched scream into the camera. »
Preview Kanye West's 'American Idol' Audition
23 December 2015 12:19 PM, PST
When the American Idol auditions rolled into San Francisco in October, among the starry-eyed contestants hoping to win a Golden Ticket into the music competition's final season was a talented-but-unknown artist by the name of Kanye West. The rapper's Idol journey, one of the many surprises Idol has in store to celebrate its final season, was previewed in a 30-second look into his audition.
"My name is Kanye, I'm from the south side of Chicago," West tells the judges in the clip. "I'm originally a producer. I always wanted to »
Stephen Colbert: Donald Trump's Populism 'Very Appealing'
23 December 2015 10:12 AM, PST
Over the past few months, Stephen Colbert has had some fun with Donald Trump's headlines-grabbing presidential campaign, from overdosing on Trump jokes to daring the Gop frontrunner to donate $1 million to charity to disguising Jon Stewart as the mogul. However, in a new interview with Face the Nation set to air Sunday, Colbert admitted that he admires how Trump's campaign has shifted the balance of power in the Republican party.
"There's a populism to Trump that I found very appealing," Colbert said. "The party elders would like him to »
2015: The Year in Tarantino Controversies
23 December 2015 9:22 AM, PST
Quentin Tarantino can't help himself. In early December, after spending the second half of 2015 supplying the thinkpiece industry with one piping-hot take after another, the filmmaker confessed to The Guardian that sitting down for a bunch of long-form interview features may not have been such a great idea. "If I keep giving them fish," he said, "and they're giving me back chum in 450 different outlets, I don't know why I'm doing it." Then less than two weeks later, Tarantino appeared on The Howard Stern Show, where he accused Disney of »
'Fargo' Pays Homage to Body Count With 'In Memoriam' Video
23 December 2015 8:51 AM, PST
If you haven't watched the acclaimed second season of Fargo, turn away now. If you have, reminisce about the glorious second season of the Coen Brothers-inspired series with a tongue-in-cheek "In Memoriam" video that adds some poignancy to the pools of bloodshed.
The montage doesn't feature a complete recap of this season's body count – Rye Gerhardt's diner victims, the Gerhardt clan's foot soldiers and Kansas City mobsters slain in the wintery forest, the cops killed at the Sioux Falls motel massacre and even the poor gas station attendant all get »
Watch 'Orange Is the New Black' Cast Confess to Roughing Up Santa
23 December 2015 7:41 AM, PST
Orange Is the New Black is expected to return with its fourth season next summer – but to help tide over fans, the Litchfield inmates have issued a hilarious, suitably dark Yuletide greeting with a parody of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." As expected, Santa's fate is a bit different in this version.
"Cell phones were stashed in the walls all around / In hopes that the contraband wouldn't be found," explain Red (Kate Mulgrew) and Poussey (Samira Wiley). The prisoners, upon hearing a ruckus outside, wonder if a "riot" is going down, »
Watch Darth Vader Invade a Mexican Soccer Press Conference
23 December 2015 7:30 AM, PST
It's official: Omar Gonzalez has turned to the Dark Side.
Gonzalez, a member of the U.S. Men's National Team, has played with the L.A. Galaxy since being drafted by the team a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (or 2009, at the Mls SuperDraft in St. Louis). Since then, he's earned Mls Rookie of the Year honors, won three Mls Cups and appeared in 180 games with the team, the ninth most in franchise history. But on Tuesday, the Galaxy transferred Gonzalez to Mexican club C.F. »
Cam'ron Squashes Holiday Cheer as Santa Claus on 'Nightly Show'
22 December 2015 7:55 PM, PST
Cam'ron donned a Santa suit and returned to The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore where he dismissed the Christmas wishes of the show's staff with a hearty laugh and a sack of something green that definitely wasn't mistletoe or holly.
From the start, Santa Cam wanted nothing to do with the petty lists of the Nightly Show's writers. He told one to buy his own kitchen flatware and another, who asked for world peace, "Now how the fuck would I fit that into my sleigh?"
Elsewhere, Santa Cam had the »
Watch Baseball-Themed Trailer for 'Dazed and Confused' 'Spiritual Sequel'
22 December 2015 12:18 PM, PST
Booze, babes and baseball abound in the first trailer for Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some, the so-called "spiritual sequel" to Dazed and Confused set to premiere at South by Southwest in March.
Where Dazed and Confused followed a group of students on the final day of school in the Seventies, Everybody Wants Some is set in the Eighties and tracks the antics of several incoming college baseball recruits.
The first clip from the film shows that Linklater hasn't lost his knack for capturing the charm of being young and dumb, »
'MST3K' Returns: Joel Hodgson on Resurrecting the Cult TV Show
22 December 2015 8:29 AM, PST
Joel Hodgson never set out to start a wisecracking revolution. In fact, his conception for what would become the beloved cult series Mystery Science Theater 3000 was simply born out of a selfish desire to create a television show that incorporated a few of his favorite things: "bad movies, sci-fi, and puppetry." The rest is pop culture history.
Just a year after its Thanksgiving Day premiere on a Uhf channel in Minneapolis in 1988, MST3K made its national debut on the Comedy Channel, an HBO-owned cable network that eventually morphed into Comedy Central. »
Watch Sarah Palin Spoof Tina Fey in '31 Rock' Sketch
22 December 2015 5:44 AM, PST
Sarah Palin finally exacted some revenge on her serial impressionist Tina Fey by starring in a new video spoofing Fey's 30 Rock. In the "31 Rock" fake trailer, produced by the Independent Journal Review, Palin portrays "Lynn Melon" – a nod to Fey's Liz Lemon – "a TV writer who left a small town for the big city."
Palin isn't the only recognizable Republican to partake in the Fey-satirizing gag: Lindsey Graham – who just exited the presidential race – plays the 31 Rock page, while Palin's former running mate John McCain makes a quick cameo in »
Nicolas Cage Returns Stolen Dinosaur Skull to Mongolia
21 December 2015 6:16 PM, PST
Over the weekend, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ordered the return of a Tyrannosaurus bataar skull back to Mongolia after the fossil was smuggled illegally into the United States and sold at auction in 2007. While initial reports did not specify who exactly was in possession of the 67 million-year-old skull, it has since been revealed that actor Nicolas Cage purchased the fossil for $276,000 at a Beverly Hills auction house.
While the actor was absolved of any wrongdoing in the incident – Cage was unaware that the fossil was smuggled into America »
Top 5 TV: 'Big Bang' Gets Sexy, Steve Harvey Screws Up
21 December 2015 11:27 AM, PST
Late last Saturday night, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey said their goodnights on SNL and threw it to Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, who belted out a rousing version of "Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town." Everyone on stage looked absolutely giddy, from Maya Rudolph dancing around in a fabulous cocktail dress to Kenan Thompson, singing the late Clarence Clemons' old "better be good for goodness' sake" part. By the time Little Steven Van Zandt waved surprise guest Paul McCartney over to his microphone, the whole performance started to feel like a benediction. »
Vatican Paper Deems 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Not 'Evil' Enough
21 December 2015 7:11 AM, PST
The entire galaxy has Star Wars fever, as J.J. Abrams' The Force Awakens has shattered opening weekend box office records and earned mostly glowing reviews. But the film's harshest – and least expected – critic could be the Vatican's daily newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, which trashed the sequel for its lack of convincing antagonists. "The new director's setup fails most spectacularly in its representation of evil, meaning the negative characters," reads the non-bylined review, via Los Angeles Times.
"Darth Vader and above all the Emperor Palpatine were two of the most efficient »
Steve Harvey's Miss Universe Gaffe: The Sports World Reacts
21 December 2015 6:53 AM, PST
Everybody is talking about Steve Harvey's Sunday night blunder. Even Magic Johnson, for some reason.
Just in case you weren't watching last night's Miss Universe pageant (what's wrong with you?!?) or have managed to stay off the Internet in the 12 hours since the competition concluded, let us bring you up to speed. On Sunday, Harvey – who hosted Miss Universe 2015 – had a cringe-inducing live TV moment for the ages, when he crowned Miss Colombia as the winner…when she was actually the first runner-up.
So as Ariadna Gutierrez stood there basking in her triumph, »
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