Bob Dorough, the veteran jazz performer who helped define the sound and style of educational animation mainstay Schoolhouse Rock!, has died. The author of such tunes as “Three Is A Magic Number” and “Conjunction Junction,” Dorough served as musical director for the long-running series of interstitial shorts, helping…
“Do you know what love is? It’s a hot bath. What happens to things when you leave them in a bath for too long? They get soft, fall apart.”
“Ruth’s gonna do what Ruth’s gonna do.”
Last week, I described Cece and Schmidt’s daughter as more of an adorable plot device than a full-fledged character, and as charming as Danielle and Rhiannon Rockoff’s performances as Ruth have been, I would have been perfectly happy for her to continue as a li’l cutie pie…
At the end of last season, with a renewal already in hand, The 100 gave itself the best possibility to start over. After four seasons of fending off violence at every turn, The 100 allowed itself to jump ahead in time and truly shake things up. Clarke was given her moment of heroism, one that felt true to the…
When the writers of The Flash decide to hammer home a theme, they don’t hold back. You could hardly miss it this week: Thinking is overrated, emotions are where it’s at! Now, when you’ve built your season around a villain called the Thinker, this is an obvious direction to take the narrative. As DeVoe becomes more and…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hulu has canceled its cult drama The Path after three seasons, which is a good setup for some fun puns about paths—THR, for example, says that it’s “the end of the road” for the series, but you could also take the easy Path and simply say that Hulu has “come to the end of The Path…
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CBS News reports that rapper Meek Mill was released on unsecured bail this afternoon, following a high-profile campaign to have him freed from prison in the wake of a recent parole violation. Although he’s been in jail on-and-off ever since he turned 18—often on similar parole violations stemming from a gun charge…
If you have Amazon Prime, congrats, you also have Twitch Prime. And if you have Twitch Prime, you get some free PC games every month, no strings attached.
There are inspired marketing campaigns, and then there’s this. The Independent and other outlets are reporting that some Panic! At The Disco fans have received potatoes in the mail, and naturally, are posting on social media.
Now that it’s got Blockbuster Horror Director Jon Krasinski on the hook for its upcoming Jack Ryan TV show—and not just boring old regular The Office star John Krasinski, like it used to—Amazon’s making damn sure not to let him get away. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming service announced today that it’s…
Megan Fox may have once compared Michael Bay to Hitler, but that was eight years ago and she had a surprisingly good run on New Girl and a fun head-exploding interview since then, so now she’s moving to a deeper and more meaningful calling then making dumb robot movies with Michael Bay: solving historical mysteries on…
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
Sean Menard calls his new documentary, The Carter Effect, a love letter to Toronto. The film examines how the culture in Toronto was changed by the presence of the Toronto Raptors and NBA All-Star Vince Carter. In the video above, Menard tells us how he got de facto Toronto ambassador Drake to appear in the film.
On Friday, former Smallville star Allison Mack was arrested for the role she allegedly played in acting as a recruiter for the supposed cult/sex trafficking ring Nxivm and its subgroup DOS (Dominos Obsequious Sororium, or “Master Over the Slave Women”). Along with Nxivm leader Keith Raniere, Mack was charged with sex…
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. This week: As a new Juliette Binoche movie, Let The Sunshine In, begins its theatrical run in the States, we remember other highlights from the career of this world-class actor.
Replacing a hard drive with an SSD is one of the most worthwhile upgrades you perform on a computer, and Samsung’s 860 EVO is one of the best drives out there. The 1TB model is currently marked down to an all-time low $280, and for the rest of this week, they’re also throwing in a copy of Far Cry 5 for PC. You’ll…
Thanks to the government’s assault on women’s reproductive rights over the past year, The Handmaid’s Tale—a story in which the few fertile women left in the world are reduced to incubators by an oppressive regime—became unfortunately timely. What the cast and creators of the Emmy-winning drama didn’t expect was for…
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle was a surprisingly huge hit, pulling some box office attention away from Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the beginning of the year, and it looks like that experience has emboldened Sony so much that it’s going to directly challenge Star Wars when Jumanji 2 rolls around next year. According…
A few years ago, when I was a naive writer at a very different publication, I decided to do a story about an energy drink that also happened to be a respected patron of the arts.
