Stop Saving the Rom-com

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1609 words  |  Zora Stowers

As an empty vessel of a genre, the romantic comedy is not worth resuscitating, though what it once contained probably is. There is almost as much romance in the movie Bros as there is talking about romantic comedies — two intersecting but separate concepts. On the side of the romance, there’s a tetchy courtship between Billy Eichner’s character, a never-been-in-a-relationship podcaster and LGBTQ-museum employee, and a masculine, never-going-to-respond-to-your-tap-on-Grindr lawyer played by Luke Macfarlane. [Read More]

Super Bowl Halftime Show to Feature Sign-Language Performers for the First Time

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  202 words  |  Zora Stowers

Dr. Dre, who’s leading the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show. Two more rappers are joining the Super Bowl halftime show — to interpret the performance in sign language. Sean Forbes and Warren “Wawa” Snipe, musicians who are deaf, will perform the halftime show in American Sign Language, a first for the Super Bowl, Variety reported. Wawa previously performed the National Anthem in sign language at the 2021 Super Bowl. [Read More]

Super Mario Bros Becomes the First Movie of 2023 to Hit $1 Billion Globally

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  266 words  |  Janel Helmers

Update April 30: Wa-hoo! The Brothers Mario have done it. The Super Mario Bros Movie became the first film of 2023 to cross the billion-dollar mark, despite 1) the whole film being up on Twitter for hours and 2) selling many more children’s tickets than other box office juggernauts like Top Gun: Maverick. According to IndieWire, Super Mario Bros is on track to surpass the box office of any animated film this century. [Read More]

Super Tuesday With Steve Kornacki, MSNBCs Wonk Superman

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1450 words  |  Zora Stowers

“He has not stopped. He has not eaten. He’s only been drinking water for the past 18 hours.” The wonk at work. Photo: David Williams The wonk at work. It is 4:59 p.m. on Super Tuesday and Steve Kornacki, MSNBC’s national political correspondent and trusted human calculator of votes, is peering at a laptop screen filled with freshly released exit polling data. These are only preliminary figures for the 14 states (and, lest we forget, American Samoa) holding Democratic primaries in this first week of March, but they already hint at several potential wins for Joe Biden and a striking tidal shift in the race that could position Biden, not Bernie Sanders, as the party’s front-runner. [Read More]

Survivor Recap: Call Me by Your Nami

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2067 words  |  Janel Helmers

Survivor Cancel Christmas Season 46 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Survivor Cancel Christmas Season 46 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We are only six minutes and 19 seconds in the episode when someone says, “Siga Strong.” That person is Tim, a man who has been so insulated from the game of Survivor that he made an alliance with one of his tribemates and didn’t even bother to tell her about it. [Read More]

SurvivorSeason-Finale Recap:We Have a Winner

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1278 words  |  Zora Stowers

Survivor One Thing Left to Do…Win Season 41 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Survivor One Thing Left to Do…Win Season 41 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » 19 months later, we finally have a new Survivor winner. Congratulations to Erika, the Luvu queen from Toronto. [Read More]

Take Vultures Catching Fire Superfan Quiz

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1226 words  |  Aldo Pusey

J.Law, pshaw! The only true Hunger Games fans are those of us who read the books long before everyone’s BFF won her Oscar. So, as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire prepares for Careers-level domination in the box-office arena this weekend, it’s time to head to the Training Center and brush up on your skills at the trivia station. In other words: Take our 35-question superfan quiz to test whether you truly have what it takes to emerge a victor. [Read More]

Talking to Neal Brennan About Chappelles Show, Standup, Podcasts and More

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  16 minutes  |  3249 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Much in the way that Bill Clinton was considered our first black president, Neal Brennan might be our first black podcast host. As co-host of The Champs podcast, along with comedians Moshe Kasher and DJ Douggpound, Brennan brings the predominantly white podcast universe a much-needed dose of diversity through his show’s edict of having only black entertainers as guests. It’s a funny and interesting formula that works, as the podcast is edging towards 1 million downloads. [Read More]

Talking to Seann William Scott and Jay Baruchel About their Violent New Hockey Comedy Goon

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1914 words  |  Zora Stowers

The title of this piece should really be “Watching Other People Talk to Seann William Scott and Jay Baruchel.” Let me explain. Last month, I was summoned to the swanky Beverly Hills Hilton to attend a press day for the new movie Goon, starring Seann William Scott and Jay Baruchel. Baruchel also wrote the movie with Seth Rogen’s writing partner Evan Goldberg. The PR team promoting Goon set up a string of conference rooms at the hotel for Scott and Baruchel to drop by and record TV and radio spots, plus participate in a roundtable interview with about 15 web and print journalists, including myself. [Read More]