'The Avengers' and Superhero Fatigue
Marvel Studios has released a new, full-length trailer for their upcoming superhero mashup The Avengers. So that's mildly exciting, eh?
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Today in celebrity news: Duchess Kate is learning how to cook, Justin Theroux maybe had a bachelor party, and Faye Dunaway made a very important phone call.
Marvel Studios has released a new, full-length trailer for their upcoming superhero mashup The Avengers. So that's mildly exciting, eh?
As the Republican primary season rumbles on, there can only be more campaign ads. Which ones succeed? Which fail? In Ad Watch, we review them as they come out. Today: Romney fights off his attackers and Ron Paul distinguishes himself.
Hollywood dreadnaught Ryan Murphy has announced plans to make a movie musical with Gwyneth Paltrow, Cameron Diaz, and Reese Witherspoon, based on an idea they had at dinner.
Finally, American Idol is real! Gone are the hideous pre-taped auditions and Hollywood Week hysterics. We have arrived at the live shows that we, America, get to vote on.
Cuba downsizes, James Spader downsizes himself, and Keaton and Redford are together at least
For at least one person, Slate's Hanna Rosin, The Berenstain Bears were horrid regressive devils, and Berenstain's death merits a contrarian essay about the books' awfulness, complete with the phrase "good riddance." Good riddance? Good grief.
NBC's once promising, now struggling Smash should drop the attempt to be a savvy look backstage, and just fully embracing the camp and going for out-and-out soap.
The CW has found its newest leading lady, the Oscars were a mild success, and Jonah Hill stays serious.
The glitter dust of the 84th Academy Awards may have settled, but with the 85th edition a mere 363 days away, there are some lessons for next year's producers, whoever they may be. Let's review while our memories are still fresh.
The Academy Awards are all about celebrating artistry and all that blah blah blah. What they're really about is fabulous fashion, so here are our choices for the standout looks of this year's ceremony.
Sunday's 84th Academy Awards ceremony (which we live-blogged!) has come to an end. And while plenty happened, there are really only ten things you need to know about the ceremony to hold your own during today's water cooler conversation. Here they are.
We keep promising to never watch Glee again, but we can't help ourselves.
The nerd world's favorite comedy returns, Paul Walker is forever, and a look at HBO's latest.
The latest debate amongst internet TV nerds is a'raging about whether the big beautiful serialized show format kind of ruined TV. But for me? I take one thing away from all of this: We really need to stop taking TV so damn seriously.
Last night PBS debuted part one of its American Experience look at the presidency of Bill Clinton, with all its triumph and scandal and fraught middle ground. It was an entertaining, oddly familiar look at the recent past, a time that seems in some ways no different from now.
Scott Speedman is having a comeback, someone's letting Lindsay Lohan do live television, and Chris Colfer made a little movie.
As the Republican primary season rumbles on, there can only be more campaign ads. Which ones succeed? Which fail? In Ad Watch, we review them as they come out. Today: Sarah Palin reminds us she exists and Romney goes after Santorum.
A Los Angeles Times report on the demographics of the Academy Award voters paints a pretty clear picture of what we're dealing with when the Oscars get handed out: they're a reflection of a pretty homogenous group of people's tastes.
For those of you too chaste and pure of internet soul to watch illicit downloads of Downton Abbey's second season when it aired in the UK last fall, the show's American run concluded last night, so now you finally know what we've known for literally months now.
Today we review the new action romantic comedy This Means War.
Last night was the intermediary, the strange middleman, the thing hanging between here and there. And what better place to host such an event than Las Vegas, American purgatory, desert ruin not yet ruined. So, yeah, they went to Las Vegas.
Meryl and Julia are teaming up on a big movie, Jennifer Aniston is making another switch, and a new show sounds very exciting.
Potentially exciting news comes today that Jason Katims, a longtime writer on NBC's great yet often overlooked drama Friday Night Lights, has nearly finished his script for a movie based on the series.
We will all eventually come to dread the two-hour-long episodes of American Idol, but last night's Double Stuf episode, early-ish along in the season, was entirely welcome. We got to see a lot — a lot of singing, a lot of satisfying judging — that we just could not have seen in an hour. So, oddly, thank you for that, Idol dreammakers!
Jenny McCarthy has a new show, J.Lo has ruined reality TV for everyone, and Cougar Town is in trouble (again).
Popular British feelings drama Downton Abbey, with all its costumes and emotions and politeness, should in no way appeal to men. (Straight men, anyway.)
A mostly unsourced rumor has been floating around these internets recently claiming that congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Disturbia) was offered a spot on the upcoming season of ABC's glitter 'n' gunk "celebrity" fest, Dancing With the Stars. But she's not, OK?
19 Kids and Counting premiered last night, and while it was mostly a typical Duggars episode, with eerily wholesome family activities and a dash of stomach-turning religiosity, there was a new grimness to the series that didn't sit right.
Chris Pine's salaries revealed, the Parents Television Council is mad at MTV again, and some less than stellar news for NBC.
Oscar telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer have been pretty hush-hush about their plans for the ceremony (12 days, everyone!). But, with Billy Crystal on board as host, there is at least one thing we're guaranteed: Billy Crystal jokes.
Last night was episode two of Smash, NBC's somewhat make-it-or-break-it drama about the ins and outs of putting on a Broadway show. So after a big opening night last week, how did the show fare yesterday, quality-wise at least? Hm. Let's say reviews are mixed.
It's Valentine's Day. Not sure how you should feel about that? Read on.
A new trailer for a strange new movie, Jamie Lannister meets Tom Cruise, and Jennifer Aniston is in trouble in London.
Who says nobody cares about the Grammys anymore? The music industry's biggest awards ceremony aired last night to a whopping 39 million viewers, the most that have tuned in since 1984.
AMC's coulda-been-great zombie apocalypse series The Walking Dead returned to the airwaves last night to resume the show's second season after a shocking midseason finale (a concept we really should do away with altogether) back in December.
John Stamos might have a series again, George Lucas corrects the fanboys, and the gay return of Ethan Embry.
Last night the hell of Group Night began.
A Bradley Cooper joint falls apart, Robert Redford is stranded, and Bravo heads back to Miami.
It's hard not to be sympathetic to the message of the actual or would-be glitter-bombers, but we think this particular protest technique has turned cliché, fruitless, and rather counterproductive. It's time to put down the throwable art supplies.
Last night began Hollywood Week, sending some people tumbling down.
A new Bourne movie without the Bourne, Carrie Bradshaw rides again, and so do Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.
The River has a fun premise, but can it ultimately work?
JGL is a man of many talents, Amy Adams heads into the art world, and a dismaying glimpse of the new Spider-Man.
Today's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that California's Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban, is unconstitutional "all but ensures" (according to The New York Times) that the case will go the Supreme Court. But it does mean at least one thing: We can finally forgive California.
Last night's big premiere of Smash was a boon for NBC and musical lovers, pulling in 11.5 million viewers and a 3.9 ratings in the all-important 18-49 demo. This is big for NBC. Actually, it's big for network TV.
Bravo executive Andy Cohen has been doing his little basement boozefest chat show Watch What Happens Live for a while now, and beside taking a few curious peeks in now and again, we had long avoided it. It was all so silly and awkward, isn't it? But then we started watching it.
Today: Paz de la Huerta loses a job, a certain pilot seems suspicious, and two Australians get sexily stranded.
Not sure if you guys have heard, but NBC has a new show called Smash that's premiering tonight. It's about putting together a Broadway musical, and you should watch it. Really, you should!
Premiering its second season just after last night's nail-biter of a Super Bowl, NBC's singing competition The Voice tried to keep the excitement level up, but mostly failed.
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