The spooky season is nearly here, and with it will come John Carpenter’s excellent soundtrack for the Halloween series’ 11th installment and Thom Yorke’s music for Luca Guadagnino’s masterful Suspiria remake. Beyond horror scores, October offers exciting new records from High On Fire, Robyn, Daughters, Julia Holter,…
Happy Monday: Here’s the latest trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, revealing the best glimpse yet at the scope of the game. It seems enormous. Train robberies, side-quests, preposterous vistas, heists large and small, and RPG-style progression all promise a big, fun, modern video game, but it’s the small details…
Amazon’s kicking off October with a scary-good deal on Halloween decorations, today only. Gargoyles, tree spirits, skeletons, and a bunch of other spooky stuff is included, but just remember, the prices will rise along with the moon.
A lot of popular historical fiction—the type we see in games and movies and television—is full of shit. We’re so used to it being full of shit that, when Assassin’s Creed Odyssey opens during the Battle of Thermopylae, which, because it’s set in ancient Greece, is apparently obligatory, the player is mentally prepared…
For a while, getting into modern Doctor Who was easy. The long-running BBC show is broken up into two distinct eras: The “Classic Era,” which ran from 1963 to 1989 (followed by a mid-’90s TV movie) and the “Modern Era” (or “NuWho” as it’s sometimes called), which kicked off in 2005 with a soft reboot and is still…
John Oliver’s weekly platform for calculatedly hysterical outrage, Last Week Tonight, might seem to be at a disadvantage when reacting to the fast-erupting sewage-news overflowing the White House containment tanks during the Donald Trump administration. Yet, like someone who wisely takes a few deep breaths during a…
And with that, another season of Insecure comes to an end. “Ghost-Like” is an amazing finale. Sadly, it comes at the end of an oddly paced season that leaves things feeling rushed. As the show celebrates Issa’s 30th birthday, there’s some beautiful symmetry at play. Issa has come a long way since her 29th birthday in…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, October 1. All times are Eastern.
Oh man, this is a good one. The whole season I’ve been reluctant to go above an “A-,” my standard “this is terrific, but I’m not completely convinced” grade I use when I’m hedging my bets. But I’m going all out “A” on this one. Objectively, I’ll try and explain why, but it’s probably best to be up front right here: I…
It’s hard to imagine a more politically fraught environment than our current unending news cycle in the wake of the 2016 Presidential election, and this weekend has been no exception, as across the dial Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh’s respective testimonies dominate the airwaves and social media feeds. We…
In 1986, Broadway songwriting legend Stephen Sondheim and dramatist James Lapine turned Bruno Bettelheim’s analytical psychology book The Uses Of Enchantment: The Meaning And Importance Of Fairy Tales into the playful musical Into The Woods, which turned the well-known stories of Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel,…
It’s pretty wild that a show with nine seasons under its belt can continue being not only compelling and hilarious, but genuine. Shows like, let’s say, The Simpsons, continue to be successful and entertaining (depending who you speak to), but it’s hard to put trust in the characters’ emotions. Despite the several…
“Like most of America, I think I know the movie business.”
Grab your ratty black hoodie with finger holes cut in the sleeves, because it’s time for an energizing cup of nu metal coffee. As announced in a press release late last week, nu metal band Korn has gotten into the coffee business by partnering up with J. Gursey Coffee Roasters to release its very own line of “Korn…
The best value in the Sonicare line, $2 quarts of motor oil, and LEGO’s Star Wars advent calendar lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.
Across the entire Friends saga, few storylines had as much of a lasting impact as the initial romance between Ross and Rachel, right up until they decided to take—as Rachel confusingly dubbed it—”a break.” After a few episodes of Ross being a real dick and struggling to trust his girlfriend at all, Rachel decided the…
In an interview with Ted Koppel and CBS News today, CNN founder and general media mogul Ted Turner revealed that he has been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder that “affects memory and other cognitive functions.” Turner said he feels “tired” and “exhausted,” and that his symptoms include…
On Saturday night, Willie Nelson headlined a concert in Austin for Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic candidate running against famously loathed Republican Ted Cruz for the Senate in November, and he debuted a new, election-themed song called “Vote ‘Em Out.” It’s not a scathing, anti-Trump ballad or anything (leave that to…
Kanye West was the musical guest on last night’s Saturday Night Live season premiere, and as literally everyone on the planet could’ve predicted, he did some weird shit that seemed specifically designed to generate news stories like, oh, this one. As noted in our review of the episode, his first song involved him…
With more than 5.7 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or adding an obituary section to Kanye “slavery is a choice” West’s page because he’s dead to you. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,7125,480-week series, Wiki…
