Two titans of music—specifically, music that most people don’t care about much anymore—faced off in the political arena this weekend, with gun-loving “Wango Tango” proponent Ted Nugent, and Sylvester’s brother/Norm Macdonald punchline Frank Stallone, both offering up their attempts at the shittiest, most retrograde…
Amazon’s huge luggage sale, our readers’ favorite travel pillow, a ton of discounted storage for World Backup Day, and more lead Saturday’s best deals.
As one of the wittier working comics of the last few decades, comedian Garry Shandling was a natural on Twitter, mixing together some light self-promotion, boosts for his friends, and a lot of enjoyably weird, self-deprecating humor into one enjoyable package. Now, some of his pals are bringing Shandling’s comic…
We’re less than six months out now from the release of Shane Black’s The Predator, the Lethal Weapon director’s new effort to inject a little menace back into the fight against the infamous extraplanetary hunter. To commemorate the film’s rapidly approaching release, Black released a photo from the film’s set last…
One of the major selling points of local news is that it’s supposed to feel specific: How’s the high school basketball team doing? That bake sale kicking ass? What’s that wacky city council up to now, huh? (Those jokers!) Still, the realities of TV economics mean that even small-town stations are often owned by big…
There’s something strange going on in Fortnite right now. Controllers are rumbling randomly, when nothing is happening. There’s something in the sky that wasn’t there before. Nobody knows what any of it means.
Nestled between Good Friday and Easter Sunday is the holiest day of them all: World Backup Day. Amazon’s marking the occasion with a one-day sale on storage gear, so your own data can be resurrected.
Citing previously existing plans that are in no way related to nearly a dozen advertisers jumping ship from her Fox News show in less than a week, host Laura Ingraham has announced that she’s suddenly going on a well-earned, totally un-spontaneous vacation. (After all, it’s Holy Week!) Ingraham Angle will instead be…
With ABC rolling out multiple new comedies this week, now would be a good time for a family (sitcom) meeting. The network’s reputation for shows centered around the home goes back to Ozzie and Harriet—a tradition kept alive by Modern Family—but the last decade has seen ABC struggle to keep any comedy afloat without…
This Easter Sunday will see NBC’s live telecast of Jesus Christ Superstar with singer John Legend in the title role—the second, or third, or more likely, 102nd coming of Jesus as a pretty cool dude. The trope of our God being an awesome God, as well an awesome guy to hang out with, is a popular one in church youth…
April promises another strong, diverse set of new releases to follow up an excellent March, with albums from favorites like Grouper, Wye Oak, and Flatbush Zombies as well as up-and-comers Saba, No Thank You, and Half Waif. There’s also Janelle Monáe’s third full-length, Kali Uchis’ long-awaited debut, the latest from…
On Friday’s Late Show, host Stephen Colbert welcomed 93-year-old former President Jimmy Carter for a friendly chat—with an ulterior motive. First, Colbert, introducing the former POTUS as a Nobel Prize winner, nuclear engineer, and peanut farmer, was content to praise Carter’s post-presidency career as tireless …
Like a bunch of dogged Javerts—if Les Misérables had been about the world’s most popular woman getting bitten on the face and not, like, pilfered bread or something—the investigators over at Page Six claim to have finally brought the Beyoncé Biter to ground. The celebrity news/gossip site is naming actress Sanaa…
Braving—at rough estimate—six million or so jokes about baseball, and if there’s any crying therein, Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Mozart In The Jungle’s Will Graham are teaming up to bring the Penny Marshall classic A League Of Their Own back to TV. Specifically to Amazon, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter,…
You’ve gotta be an awfully loyal Hydra agent to remain with the secretive organization in the present day. General Hale shot the only remaining Hydra agent after S.H.I.E.L.D. captured Gideon Malick, leaving just her and daughter Ruby as the final two, yet chose to stick with it. She’s no fair-weather friend.
Today, in “Maybe the weirdest thing we’ve ever had to watch for work” news: W Magazine recently recruited Parks And Recreation and Legion star Aubrey Plaza for its ongoing, aurally uncomfortable video series, “Celebrity ASMR,” which is exactly what it sounds like. But where folks like Jake Gyllenhaal, Margot Robbie,…
DirecTV Now is one of the better over-the-top cable replacements out there, and with this deal, there’s very little reason not to give it a try.
The saga of Marlon Bundo—John Oliver’s LGBTQ-positive parody of a children’s book by the wife and daughter of Vice President Mike Pence—continues this week, with Will & Grace showrunner Max Mutchnick pledging to push the tome’s roaring sales numbers even higher. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mutchnick has…
“Every time a black woman gets angry, she’s a stereotype.” This statement is spat out early on in Tyler Perry’s Acrimony by Taraji P. Henson, as she lights up a cigarette in her court-ordered anger management therapist’s office. (She doesn’t ask first. She just does it.) Henson, appearing in her third film with …
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