Faced with an increasingly dispiriting reality, Americans chose to spend their weekend laughing at the funny, hunky god-man and his angry green friend in Taika Waititi’s colorful, irreverent Thor: Ragnarok. Forsooth, the 17th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe enjoyed a massive No. 1 opening, grossing $121 million…
Woody Harrelson gives good cranky, something he’s proven in any number of film performances. Harrelson will have to put all of his grumpy muscles to the test, though, in Rob Reiner’s upcoming Lyndon B. Johnson biopic, LBJ. In a new trailer released today, Harrelson captures a number of LBJ’s grouchy mannerisms—most…
At times, the current presidential campaign has felt like one long blooper reel, a never-ending parade of ill-chosen words, terrible timing, and missed cues. But the latest supercut from News Be Funny proves that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are merely following the example set by generations of previous…
With more than 5 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or wondering when Nate Silver will start putting up the big red/blue map so we can stop worrying about the election. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,084,953-week…
The problem with biopics is that people’s lives don’t easily reduce to 120 minutes of film. While it’s not impossible for a “cradle to grave” biopic to work, it’s exceedingly difficult. That’s why some successful biopics have focused on a smaller part of their subjects’ lives. The biopic Steve Jobs—released this…
Rob Reiner’s LBJ film cast Woody Harrelson as the 36th president early on, then quickly added Richard Jenkins as his adversary and former fictional president Bill Pullman as a liberal Democrat senator. But the story of Johnson’s first year in the presidency couldn’t be told without an appearance from Jackie Kennedy—…
Deadline reports that former President Bill Pullman has joined the cast of Rob Reiner’s upcoming political drama, LBJ. Pullman will be playing liberal Democrat Sen. Ralph Yarborough. This announcement follows last week’s news that Richard Jenkins had been cast as the decidedly less-progressive Sen. Richard Russell.…
Richard Jenkins has joined the cast of Rob Reiner’s LBJ, a film chronicling Lyndon B. Johnson’s transition to becoming the 36th President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Jenkins will play southern senator Richard Russell, a former ally of Johnson (played by Woody Harrelson) who becomes…
