Giovanni Ribisi on Middle Men

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  690 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The last time we saw Giovanni Ribisi on the big screen, he was fiending for Unobtainium and ordering the destruction of Hometree as Avatar’s Parker Selfridge. In this week’s Middle Men — the fact-inspired story of the invention of Internet porn, starring Luke Wilson as a straight-laced businessman corrupted by the sex industry — Ribisi plays a jerk again, only this time one with a cocaine habit, an awesome beard, and a penchant for illicit online entrepreneurship. [Read More]

GloRillas Fast and Furious New World

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1912 words  |  Sherie Connelly

All it took was one song for the Memphis rapper to blow up. Photo: Gabriel S. Lopez GloRilla’s meteoric rise began with a beat originally dreamed up for Megan Thee Stallion. Not hearing back from Meg quick enough, standout Memphis producer Hitkidd reached out to Glo, who was on the way to get her lashes done, saying he needed a summer anthem — and fast. The artist had been on his radar since he saw her perform at a local showcase last year. [Read More]

Godzilla Is Back. What an Unholy Mess.

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  844 words  |  Elina Uphoff

At the risk of sounding species-ist, most Toho Studios–designed giant monsters look alike in close-up. This is only a problem if, like the makers of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, you reserve your long, full-body shots for the big moments and the rest of the time cut between steaming reptilian snouts and blasts of blue flame. For much of the movie, I didn’t know who was winning, who was losing, or (half the time) who even was fighting. [Read More]

Good Night, Sweet Sjoberg; Taylor Swift Is Now Officially Credited on Calvin Harriss This Is W

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  186 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Good-bye, Nils. It was fun to imagine your life as a Swedish David Hyde Pierce while it lasted. TMZ reports that Taylor Swift, who co-wrote Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s “This Is What You Came For” under the pseudonym “Nils Sjoberg,” has decided to emerge from behind her faux-Scandinavian V for Vendetta mask and change her credit in the BMI licensing’s registry from Sjoberg to Swift. Before the Sjoberg news came out, TMZ claims that Harris had tried to take credit for the song, and now, as the site points out, Swift could take legal action against Harris. [Read More]

Good Omens Finale Recap: Apocalypse? Nah.

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1178 words  |  Zora Stowers

Good Omens The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Good Omens The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Whew. That was a close one. [Read More]

Good Omens Neil Gaiman Knows How Much You Ship Aziraphale and Crowley

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  237 words  |  Janel Helmers

Good Omens creator Neil Gaiman doesn’t read fan fiction— for legal reasons, okay! But he is aware of how much the fans love Aziraphale and Crowley, so much so that they were ranked twice (No. 1 and No. 15) on the Archive of Our Own (AO3) Ship Stats of 2023, with over 70,000 works published on the site combined. “I’m not quite sure how that works,” Gaiman admits (hint: One is romantic ships, the other is platonic). [Read More]

Grimes Renames Her Second Child ?

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  232 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Grimes Grimes and the father of her children, Twitter tyrant Elon Musk, renamed their second daughter after a question mark (which is also the status of their relationship). On March 23, the experimental-pop singer tweeted a picture of her second child — a secret from the public until an accidental reveal in Vogue — in a red onesie and yellow hair dye. “Y 🐉 C,” Grimes wrote. [Read More]

Grizzly Bears Ed Droste on Supporting Radiohead and Recording Among Actual Bears

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  740 words  |  Janel Helmers

Photo: David Atlas / Retna Since the release of 2006’s Yellow House, Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear have been one of the most critically acclaimed and blogged-about forces in indie rock. They’re currently supporting Radiohead on their summer tour, and tonight they’ll play Liberty State Park’s much-anticipated All Points West festival. Singer-guitarist Ed Droste spoke with us about the band’s upcoming album and what it’s like to meet Thom Yorke. You’ve been opening for Radiohead all week. [Read More]

Guillermo del Toro Is Trying to Get At the Mountains of Madness Made Again

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  257 words  |  Janel Helmers

Albert Einstein is often misquoted as saying the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If that’s true, then Guillermo del Toro may be driving himself mad trying to adapt H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Originally published in Astounding Stories, the serial tells the story of an expedition to Antarctica that discovers an ancient city and its weird gods and even weirder architecture. [Read More]

Halsey - Vulture

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  40 words  |  Zora Stowers

album review Aug. 27, 2021

Halsey’s Rock Album Is Perfect AlchemyIf I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power is proof Trent Reznor could have a pop career if he wanted. It’s also the best Halsey album.

By Craig Jenkins

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