What’s up with Daft Punk and the helmets anyway?

Couple of big themes from the Grammys last night — Macklemore had a nice performance in which 33 couples were married, Beyonce and Jay-Z proved once again that they own the world, Pharrell Williams’ hat, Lorde winning a bunch of… Continue Reading

There was a 20th Anniversary screening of Kevin Smith’s Clerks last night at Sundance. I still sometimes call it the funniest movie ever made.

The actual release date of Clerks was in October 1994 — an insane fall for films, because Pulp Fiction was out at the same time, as was Forrest Gump (and Shawshank) — so the actual 20th anniversary will be this October, which times out with the potential release… Continue Reading

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“So what do you think you say in a concession speech?” The Mitt Romney profile is now on Netflix

It premiered at Sundance and goes on Netflix Streaming today. It’s by Gregg Whiteley, a Mormon himself, who previously worked on films such as Resolved and New York Doll. Apparently Mitt Romney himself wanted nothing to do with the film, but Ann (wife)… Continue Reading

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HBO’s True Detective, through two episodes, might be the best show on TV — and it’s all about the approach they used

True Detective, the new Sunday night HBO show, has only aired two episodes — which is 25 percent of its Season 1 run — and might already be the best show on TV (currently; at this moment things like Mad Men and The… Continue Reading

Modern Family is having a down year this year (mostly), but it’s really helping out USA Network on the syndication side

Modern Family has won 62 awards and been nominated 155 times total since its inception, it’s helped make Sofia Vergara a multi-millionaire several times over, and it’s at the point where it’s getting mentioned in headline fields with Breaking Bad and American Hustle. As… Continue Reading

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The real issue with the Richard Sherman interview is that (a) contextually he basically just had sex and (b) he’s black

Been a million theories on this one (1, 2, 3) and Richard Sherman has weighed in on it himself, so this doesn’t need to be a really long post or anything. Let’s keep it simple. 1. Dopamine. The media loves to… Continue Reading

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Living one’s life through Macklemore lyrics

At half-time of the NFC Championship Game last night, it certainly seemed like the 49ers were hanging in there and the second half was going to be a thriller (it was). It had even looked, at various points during the… Continue Reading

The biggest Oscar surprises were probably the Tom Hanks double-snub and Jonah Hill now being a two-time nominee

Oscar nominations were announced this morning, with (somewhat unsurprisingly) the big nominees being American Hustle (it’s a comeback story!) and Gravity. Each film had 10 nominations. Here’s the full list, and as you can see, nine movies were nominated for Best Picture. If… Continue Reading