Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: While Ryan Reynolds wrestles with insanity (and talking pets) in The Voices, we recommend other films about mental illness. Revolution #9 (2001) The next time someone tries to talk to you abou
It’s not that “Jagged Little Tapestry” is bad. It’s just formless, a bunch of blobs of different shapes and speeds and tones crammed together like a mash-up of raw Alanis Morissette and smooth Carole King, which by the way is the theme of the soundtrack this week. Santana and Brittany contin
The question going into the final season of Glee, after the main cast graduated and split up, after the new cast came up and were roundly dismissed, after a mini-reboot relocated most of the main characters to New York and then sent them all on their merry way, is what is Glee? Is it Will Schuester
Fans of The Colbert Report know and revel in the show’s longtime running jokes, whether it’s the appearance of Esteban Colberto and his chicas or chat of Sweetness, his longtime lover and/or handgun. One of the show’s most subtle gags is the existence of what seems to be a whole other world, c
Deadline Hollywood reports some doubleplusgood news—Paul Greengrass is set to direct an adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (also known as 1984, or Pyramid-Eyeball-Bootheel-Oceana Flag for proles raised on Emoji newspeak). The Sony project will reunite Greengrass with writer James
Tom Hanks fucking loves typewriters. This was a known fact even before he developed an app that re-creates the experience of typing on a manual typewriter, but without all the sticky keys and Wite-Out. “I’ve been collecting typewriters for no particular reason since 1978 — both manual and port
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Paul Greengrass to adapt the historical fiction novel 1984
Tom Hanks is writing a short story collection about typewriters
