Foundation Recap: To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1076 words  |  Janel Helmers

Foundation Where the Stars Are Scattered Thinly Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Foundation Where the Stars Are Scattered Thinly Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Foundation is an interesting adaptation because of how it runs almost polar opposite to the experience of reading its source material. [Read More]

Frances Bean Cobain Doesnt Like Nirvana Because Shes Such a Rock-Star Kid

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  509 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Rebel child. Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, doesn’t give many interviews — and this is probably why. For many who grew up during their heyday, speaking negatively about Nirvana is considered blasphemous. But when you’re the daughter of a grunge legend and pretty much rock royalty, you can say whatever you want and get away with it. In a new interview with Rolling Stone (where she once interned) to promote an upcoming HBO documentary about her dad — which she executive-produced — Frances Bean is doing just that: speaking openly about Nirvana, how it feels to be compared to Kurt, and her rocky relationship with her mother. [Read More]

Friday Night Lights Recap: No Respect

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1268 words  |  Zora Stowers

Friday Night Lights On the Outside Looking In Season 5 Episode 2 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Football, as a multitude of thick-necked, cliché-spoting television commentators love to opine, is a game of inches. Translated into more practical, yet still football-cliché-riddled verbiage for the die-hard Friday Night Lights viewer, this means: It can’t always be a game-winning Hail Mary TD pass, Lions fans. [Read More]

From Steve Carell to Brad Pitt, a Very Serious Ranking of All the Ridiculous Hair in the Big Short T

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  374 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Which is worse? Terrible hair — it’s not just for blockbuster season! The trailer for Adam McKay’s star-studded The Big Short dropped today, and lo and behold, the movie’s bevy of Oscar-nominated actors all turn out to share one thing: hair that can only be described as subprime. Paradoxically, the badness of the hair on display only increases the film’s prestige points; If these guys weren’t all so good at acting, the trailer seems to be telling us, there’s no way they’d be able to pull off such terrible hair. [Read More]

From the Handmaids to the Marthas, How Each Handmaids Tale Costume Came Together

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1463 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Elisabeth Moss as Offred. The most visually arresting part of The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel, are the uniforms the Handmaids wear: bright-red dresses capped with stark white bonnets. The Handmaid’s Tale does much of the world-building of this near-future dystopia through its costume design. In this new totalitarian theocracy known as Gilead, women are divided into different castes according to their usefulness to the state; the uniforms follow suit. [Read More]

Gabrielle Union Criticized the Culture at Americas Got Talent. Now Shes No Longer There.

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1641 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Gabrielle Union was a judge on America’s Got Talent before she was let go last Friday. Gabrielle Union, the actress and producer, was just two months into her tenure as a judge on the NBC talent competition America’s Got Talent when she found herself seated in a tense meeting with Simon Cowell, the music mogul and reality-show star. He had a request for her: If she had any problems with the production or the show, come to him directly. [Read More]

Gal Gadot Says Joss Whedon Threatened My Career During Justice League Filming

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  364 words  |  Elina Uphoff

After alluding to her “own experience” with Joss Whedon when offering her support to co-star Ray Fisher last year, Gal Gadot revealed to Israel’s N12 News that the director allegedly threatened her career after the pair clashed on the set of the Justice League reshoots. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Wonder Woman 1984 actress opened up to reporter Yuna Leibzon this weekend, confirming, “What I had with Joss, basically, is that he kind of threatened my career, and said if I did something, he would make my career miserable. [Read More]

Game of Thrones Pedro Pascal on Oberyns Bisexuality, Orgies in Westeros, and Boy Candy

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  892 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Game of Thrones actor Pedro Pascal. We first meet Oberyn Martell, the intense character played by Pedro Pascal this season on Game of Thrones, at Littlefinger’s brothel. But as we learned later in the season-four premiere, he hasn’t come to King’s Landing strictly for its carnal delights; he’s there to avenge his sister’s death at the hands of nefarious Lannister goon Gregor “The Mountain Who Rides” Clegane, a major plot line this season. [Read More]

Giancarlo Esposito Finds Elegance in Every Bad Guy

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  18 minutes  |  3741 words  |  Janel Helmers

Parish is giving one of Hollywood’s greatest journeymen his long-deferred shot at antihero stardom. Photo: Lucas Michael American popular culture would be diminished without Giancarlo Esposito, an actor whose screen presence is as lyrical as his name. The 65-year old actor has played memorable characters in many era-defining works, from the obsessives and eccentrics of Spike Lee’s early run of films to the champ’s dad in Michael Mann’s biopic Ali, federal agent Mike Giardello on Homicide, pastor Mike Cruz on The Get Down, and the omniscient narrator on Dear White People. [Read More]