Having honed his skills by directing several episodes of Mad Men—episodes that, demonstrating admirable restraint, weren’t just a series of scenes in which Roger Sterling beds every woman in the office—John Slattery is now moving on to movies. Variety reports that Slattery has landed the impressive cast ...

Superchunk bassist Laura Ballance won’t be touring with the group in support of its new record, I Hate Music. In an open letter, Ballance said it’s not because she hates music or because she’s too old, but rather because she’s developed hyperacusis. The condition—the same ...

With Sam Mendes taking a step away from the James Bond franchise to concentrate on exploding legitimate theaters, talk has turned to who will direct the follow-up to Skyfall, and withstand the preemptive criticism for not being Christopher Nolan that’s become standard ever since Nolan expressed his enthusiasm for ...

The first of Amazon’s experimental original series to fall is also its most high-profile: Zombieland co-creator Rhett Reese has announced that the show based on his hit 2009 movie “will not be moving forward on Amazon,” where it debuted little more than a month ago—tossed out to live ...

For years now, TV critics have been making snap judgments about new TV shows based on the footage shown at upfront presentations, which is really unfair, if you think about it. Does anybody ask movie critics to make snap judgments based on trailers? (Well, actually, now that we think about ...

While one might assume it impossible to put a price on dreams, Christie’s did just that last night by affixing a $1.915 million tag on Bea Arthur Naked, John Currin’s infamous topless portrait of the late Maude star, once more standing up for women’s liberation by ...

Tonight, after nine seasons on the air, The Office will close up shop. The aptly titled "Finale" signals the end, and now NBC is scrambling for a suitable replacement. Over the years we've written a lot about The Office and talked to nearly every member of the core cast ...

As the USA Network remains uncertain as to whether it will rescue Happy Endings—probably depending, as always, on whether you love it enough—the basic-cable channel has committed to a couple other comedies that aren’t Happy Endings. The first, Playing House, reunites Best Friends Forever best friends forever ...

As you may recall, during last year's Just For Laughs festival in Chicago, we presented a late-night stand-up show called [REDACTED]. You bought tickets on faith, all the money went to 826 Chicago, and you were rewarded with an incredible lineup that included Aziz Ansari, Patton Oswalt, Amy Schumer ...

Among the many questions that sentient beings ask themselves every year is, “What will those delightful movie spoof kings Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer next train their expert satirists’ eyes on?”, followed closely by, “I wonder what bleach tastes like?... Yaaaarghhhh! I melted my tummy bones!” As always, the answer ...

With not one but two different iterations of Black Flag reuniting this summer, it’s not outlandish to ask, “When is Henry Rollins going to launch his own, far more musclebound nostalgia tour?” The answer, as Rollins explains in his L.A. Weekly column, is probably never. As he puts ...

In great news for fans of Mike Judge and making Mike Judge get back to work inside fake technology companies, HBO has placed a series order for Silicon Valley, his single-camera comedy reunion with King Of The Hill’s John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. As previously reported, the show stars ...

Fueling pundits who have argued that increasingly high-profile Kickstarter panhandling steals from the truly needy, Melissa Joan Hart has been forced to cancel online fundraising for her would-be romantic comedy Darci’s Walk Of Shame, after coming up $1,948,395 short of her $2 million goal. The star of ...

Next fall will see ABC stretching one night at a bar into an entire multi-episode rom-com, while CBS details two harrowing weeks in the lives of Toni Collette and a non-pants-less Dylan McDermott. Now CBS boss Nina Tassler is ready to make condensed storytelling the Next Big Thing for the ...

After assembling a superteam of Hollywood’s shaggiest, frequently stewed male actors for its stoner detective story, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice has also stirred the increasingly potent Reese Witherspoon into the mix. Anderson was clearly impressed with Witherspoon’s recent audition reel, in which she deftly interpreted Thomas ...