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1. Rick Ross and Usher have released a song called “Touch’N You.” [Stereogum]2. This trailer for “Amazing Spider-Man” is four minutes long. [Vulture]3. The release date of Alfonso Cuarón's “Gravity” has been moved to 2013. [Inside Movies/EW]Related: “Children of Men” Recut as the Darkest, Artiest Sitcom Ever4. See a few frames of...
1. Idris Elba will be the latest actor — after Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover, and Terence Howard, who stars in “Winnie,” which has yet to reach the U.S. — to play Nelson Mandela. [Speakeasy/WSJ]2. Whitney Houston’s mother and daughter will appear in a new reality show on Lifetime. [Billboard]3. Jay-Z will anchor his own two-day music...
1. Todd Solondz’s next movie, “Dark Horse,” will focus on a man (Jordan Gelber) who lives and works with his parents (Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow!) and falls in love with a detached woman (Selma Blair). Watch the trailer below. [The Playlist/Indiewire]2. Against Me! singer Tom Gabel has become the first rock star to announce that...
When we say that Abel Ferrara’s “Pizza Connection” — a web serial for Vice now in its second episode — is loosely based on an FBI case against Sicilian heroin dealers, we mean loosely: As Ferrara explains in an interview paired with the series, “Pizza” is intended to seem as if it could be set in ‘70s, when the investigation (which...
We’d rather have a “Breaking Bad” spinoff named “Better Call Saul,” but Bob Odenkirk’s new Adult Swim show “Let’s Do This!” casts Walter White’s legal counsel in a nicely similar role, running a sketchy small business out of a strip mall. Drawing from his new wife’s fortune and financing provided by a Kony-like Ugandan, Cal Mackenzie-...
The latest trailer for season two of “Games of Thrones” (kicking off April 1) just about has it all: Peter Dinklage’s glorious Tyrion telling off a smirking Cersei; Arya Starke pointing out that “anyone can be killed” (obviously); Florence Welch declaring, in grand Florence Welch-fashion, that she has “come to burn your kingdom...
Before we debate the issue of jokes about rape and whether or not they can ever be funny, there’s one thing on which we should all be able to agree: Rainn Wilson is a shit. This we base not just on his own rape jokes — this week, it was “If I were ever date-raped I would want it to be to ‘Whole Lotta Love’ by Led Zeppelin” — but the “...
Louis C.K., the comic who once devoted a segment of his FX comedy “Louie” to having his character sing along to all six minutes and nineteen seconds of the Who’s “Who Are You” while driving a car to visit his racist great aunt, is now creating a sitcom pilot for CBS. This as-yet-unamed show, which C.K. is writing with Spike Feresten, an...
Jay Leno will soon have some stiff competition as television’s most controversial talk show host. Earlier this week, Julian Assange — the Wikileaks founder now under house arrest in England while awaiting judgement on an extradition order issued by Sweden, where he is wanted on a sexual assault charge — announced that he will helm a...
Men aged 18 to 34 aren’t a monolithic group, and neither is the television programming intended to capture their demographic. Although one wonders if that’s merely an accident, witnessing the pandering nature of so much action, comedy, and whatever-“Tosh.0”-is programming. Just today Vulture provides a troublesome but entirely...
