From Near ‘Simpsons’ Spinoff To A Check Against Hollywood Ridiculousness: Why...
ABC When Jon Lovitz was asked during a radio interview in September 2015 if he would ever consider bringing The Critic back, fans everywhere rejoiced when he replied, “I would do it in a second.” Jay...
View Article‘Frustrated Athlete’ Jeremy Piven Tells Us What The Cubs’ World Series Win...
Getty Image The Chicago Cubs are at no shortage of celebrity fans. From Bill Murray and Eddie Vedder being a huge part of the team’s World Series celebration in Cleveland to Vince Vaughn and John...
View ArticleGeorge Karl Has Plenty Of Nice Things To Say Despite The ‘Furious’ Backlash...
Getty Image It has been three weeks since George Karl gave Phil Jackson a breather and became the most hated man in the NBA. His new memoir, “Furious George,” has had the former NBA coach in hot water...
View ArticleJack Black Talks ‘The Polka King,’ A Tenacious D Reunion, And Loving Tilda...
Sundance / Getty Image It feels like we’re on the cusp of a Jack Black renaissance. 10 or 15 years ago (can you believe it’s been 14 years since School of Rock?) it felt like Jack Black was...
View Article‘Hitman’ Director Christian Elverdam Explains How To Make Game Worlds You Get...
Square Enix In Hitman, the episodic stealth game arriving in a boxed edition tomorrow, part of the fun is trotting the globe, exploring the glamorous and beautiful places most of us can only dream...
View ArticleBrett Gelman Explains Why ‘Lemon’ Is A ‘Real Film’
Getty Image / Sundance Brett Gelman has made me laugh harder than almost anyone else in the world, yet when I meet him, he seems very serious. Which seems oddly fitting. How do I square these two...
View ArticleTop Chef’s Gail Simmons Talks Obnoxious Food Trends And Nit-Picky Judging
Getty Image One thing you should know about Top Chef co-host Gail Simmons: she’s a delight. I know, I hope I don’t get thrown out of journalism saying so, but it’s true. I spoke to her over the phone...
View ArticleTop Chef Finalists Brooke Williamson And Shirley Chung Reveal Food TV’s...
NBC Universal The season finale of Top Chef: Charleston airs tonight — pitting chef Shirley Chung and chef Brooke Williamson. In a lot of ways, it’s a battle of opposites. Brooke grew up in LA, says...
View ArticleSami Zayn On The Disconnect Between NXT And WWE, And How Hard It Is To Be Good
WWE Network/UPROXX The first thing we did when With Spandex arrived in Orlando for WrestleMania week was stop by the Englewood Neighborhood Center to watch Ember Moon, Titus O’Neil and Sami Zayn play...
View Article‘Westworld’ Actress Angela Sarafyan Becomes Face Of Armenian Genocide In ‘The...
Open Road Films This Friday, Angela Sarafyan can be seen in The Promise, a love story set in the during the Armenian Genocide on the Ottoman front during the first World War. Much like her role as...
View ArticleThomas Vinterberg On ‘The Commune,’ And His Own Commune Childhood: ‘I Adored...
Getty Image / Magnolia Pictures Thomas Vinterberg was just 26 when he cofounded the Dogme 95 collective with Lars Von Trier (13 years Vinterberg’s senior) and went on to direct the first Dogme film,...
View ArticleDemetri Martin On ‘Dean’ And Directing: ‘If You Get What You Want As A...
CBS Films The fact that stand-up comedy is pretty much the same everywhere — comedian, microphone, jokes, audience — is both its greatest blessing and its greatest curse. It’s universally translatable...
View Article‘Get Me Roger Stone’ Co-Director Dan DiMauro On Watching The Election From...
Netflix While his supporters (and even some of his detractors) love to think of Donald Trump the political candidate as a sort of anti-elite, grassroots movement that coalesced spontaneously out of...
View ArticleKyle Mooney And Dave McCary Of ‘Brigsby Bear’ Discuss Being Inspired By...
Sony Pictures Classic Though it was co-written by and stars Kyle Mooney, and was directed by Mooney’s long-time friend and SNL segment director Dave McCary, Brigsby Bear is about a million miles from...
View ArticleThe Safdie Brothers Talk About Exploring Robert Pattinson’s Manic Side In...
Getty Image / A24 The Coen brothers, the Russo brothers, the Wachowski siblings: sibling filmmaking teams sound great on paper, but how does that actually work in practice? While I can’t speak to...
View Article‘Fursonas’ Offers A Dark Portrait Of A Furry Demagogue, And Some Complex...
Gravitas Ventures As of about a week ago, I didn’t feel like I needed to know anything more about furry culture. They love humanoid animals and dressing up like plush toys, which may or may not...
View ArticleA Real-Life Furry Confirms That Yes, Furries Love ‘Zootopia’
Disney Dominic Rodriguez is the director of a fascinating new documentary about the furry subculture called Fursonas, which hits VOD platforms today. It’s a lurid look at at the furries’ demagoguish...
View ArticleDJ Khaled Says He Runs When He Sees Beyonce And Wants To Make Movies With...
Getty Image DJ Khaled has made a career of putting “the right people in the room together to make magic,” as he told the New York Times Magazine, but he’s taken it to the next level by sharing...
View ArticleA Deeper Look Inside The Final Days Of Extreme Championship Wrestling
Gabe Sapolsky Extreme Championship Wrestling was both destined to be great and doomed to fail. Throughout the mid to late ‘90s, the grungy Northeastern promotion set the tone for a wrestling boom...
View ArticleThe Peculiar Challenges Of Cooking On A Yacht, With Chef Ben Robinson Of...
Bravo The idea that you might one day decide to chuck your responsibilities and ditch everything for a life at sea has periodically captured the imagination of every bored office drone staring out his...
View ArticleA Deeper Look Into How ‘The Last Dragon’ Became An ’80s Classic
TriStar Pictures There’s a scene early in the 1985 martial arts film The Last Dragon that features a variety of New Yorkers at a screening of Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon. Bikers, breakdancers,...
View ArticleHere’s The Lonely Island Answering Questions About Judd Apatow’s Penis For...
This video mostly speaks for itself, but while you’re here I might as well give you the behind-the-music explanation of how it came about. So the guys from The Lonely Island (Jorma Taccone, Andy...
View ArticleMegan Fox Has Some Theories About The Egyptian Pyramids And Their True Purpose
FOX As the philosopher Jaden Smith once noted, “If Everyone In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.” Likewise, I sometimes wonder whether we would all have a...
View ArticleNorman Reedus Talks ‘Ride With Norman Reedus,’ Buying Your First Motorcycle,...
AMC While fans of The Walking Dead are still desperately trying to figure out who was on the receiving end of “Lucille” in the season six finale, Norman Reedus is putting his free Sunday evenings to...
View ArticleMeet Chef Henny, The Social Media Star Who Cooks Everything With Hennessy
` Hennessy is usually never on the list of ingredients needed for making tacos, baked chicken or a fulfilling bowl of mac and cheese. But it is for Chef Henny, a 20-something social media star who’s...
View Article‘iZOMBIE’ Co-Creator Chris Roberson Talks About His Next Comic ‘Rise Of The...
Dark Horse Chris Roberson is best known for his work on the comic iZombie, which inspired the hit CW show, but as a writer and editor, he’s had a long, long love affair with the pulps. That’s led him...
View Article‘If I Can’t Be Sincere, I Can’t Show Up To Do Anything’: Henry Rollins On...
Getty Image/Xlerator Media Who Henry Rollins is to you probably depends on how you first discovered him. Front man of Black Flag? The guy from that “Liar” video? The aggro cop from The Chase? Punk...
View ArticleUFC Fighter Tim Kennedy Opens Up About Truth, Justice, Trump Vs. Hillary, And...
Getty Image When the towers fell on 9/11, Tim Kennedy left his relatively cushy life of MMA training to sign up for a greater good. He entered the special forces and became a decorated sniper, earning...
View ArticleA Look Inside A ’90s Teen Fashion Icon’s Closet With The Star And Costume...
Getty Image On July 5, 1990, NBC introduced viewers to a girl named Blossom Russo, soon to become an important and influential television character. It was on that date that the pilot for Blossom...
View ArticleTaika Waititi Talks ‘Hunt For The Wilderpeople,’ And Why ‘Thor: Ragnarok’...
The Orchard / Getty Image Chances are, you know Taika Waititi best as the main character and co-director of the 2014 New Zealand vampire mockumentary What We Do In the Shadows. Between that and his...
View ArticleJohn Carpenter And Others Look Back At Jack Burton, The Sidekick Of ‘Big...
20th Century Fox If writers Gary Goldman and David Z. Weinstein had their way when they first sold their script for Big Trouble in Little China, the Jack Burton that we know and love would have never...
View ArticleHow ‘Big Trouble In Little China’ Opened Doors For Asian-American Actors In...
20th Century Fox In his review of the 1986 film Big Trouble in Little China, Roger Ebert wrote that this movie is “straight out of the era of Charlie Chan and Fu Manchu, with no apologies and all of...
View ArticleLebowski Fest Organizers Tell Us The Real Walter Sobchak Story And More
Uproxx As much as you think you know about The Big Lebowski, and I thought I knew a lot, you’ll almost certainly discover something new at Lebowski Fest. Some of the things I learned this year were...
View Article‘The Daily Show’ At 20: Trevor Noah, Madeleine Smithberg, And Others Discuss...
Comedy Central Trevor Noah was 12 years old when The Daily Show made its debut on July 22, 1996. He had no clue that such a show existed, though, because television was heavily censored in South...
View ArticleElizabeth Daily Revisits ‘Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure’ And The Brilliance Of Paul...
Warner Bros. Thirty-one years ago this week, people of all ages realized how boring their breakfasts and bicycles were. Paul Reubens and a then-unknown director named Tim Burton brought the unique and...
View ArticleJeff Ross On Roasting Steven Seagal, Helping Trump Or Clinton, And Settling...
Getty Image As he prepares to make Rob Lowe the next notch on his celebrity roast bedpost, Jeff Ross has greater ambitions for his particular brand of comedy. Simply put, he wants to settle the...
View Article‘Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’ Director Jean-Francois Dugan On Building Levels...
Square-Enix Deus Ex: Human Revolution was an unexpected hit, reviving the classic PC gaming franchise with a fresh, open-ended take on both stealth gaming and cover shooting. But it also wasn’t a game,...
View Article‘Skiptrace’ Director Renny Harlin Talks About Why He Fled Hollywood For China
DirecTV / Getty Image Skiptrace, opening this week in limited theaters and VOD, is an odd movie. A Midnight Run-esque action comedy about a cop transporting an uncooperative witness across national...
View ArticleDressing The Modern-Day Dandy: A Chat With ‘Vice Principals’ Costume Designer...
HBO Every movie or television show has countless crew members whose creative contributions don’t get nearly the credit they deserve. But on HBO’s Vice Principals (which had its season finale this past...
View Article‘American Honey’ Star Sasha Lane On Depicting America’s Forgotten And Discarded
A24 American Honey opens in limited release today after an acclaimed festival run, and one of its great strengths is that it feels true enough that you can forget you’re not watching a documentary....
View Article“Oh My God”: ‘Friends’ Actress Maggie Wheeler On Playing The Unforgettable...
Getty Image / NBC As a 2015 New York Times article noted, for some strange reason, New York City teens can’t get enough of Friends. Ever since the series was added to Netflix, Millennials in general...
View ArticleThe Designer Of ‘Rise Of The Tomb Raider’ Shares A Real-Life Survival Story...
Square-Enix Rise of the Tomb Raider, arriving today on PS4, has a lot of thrilling moments, and some of them are much closer to real life than you might expect. Ryan Zingler, the designer of Rise of...
View ArticleTop Chef’s Tom Colicchio Talks Sunday Gravy, Yelp Reviews, And Food Trends At...
Jim Franco Tom Colicchio has been a head judge on Top Chef for 11 years now, delivering some of our favorite, most devastatingly bitchy food disses along the way. Choice words like “did Snooki serve...
View ArticleThe Makers Of ‘Five Fingers For Marseilles’ On Creating A South African...
XYZ Films If you are now or have ever struggled with the difficulty of getting a film together, take heart: Whatever challenges you face probably aren’t as big as those South African filmmakers Sean...
View ArticleJon Ronson Explores The Nexus Of Porn, Tech Culture, And Capitalism In ‘The...
Getty Image Having covered porn for years, I always struggled with how to explain why porn stories weren’t just fringe events, solely for exotic and prurient interest; to explain that it some way,...
View ArticleJuliette Danielle On ‘The Disaster Artist’ And Coming To Terms With ‘The Room’
Juliette Danielle / Wiseau Films The Disaster Artist opened this past weekend to rave reviews thanks to its lighthearted but sneakily resonant telling of the bizarre, contentious, ultimately edifying...
View ArticleA Crash Course On Basque Cuisine From Legendary Chef Gerald Hirigoyen
Vince Mancini Oftentimes, when I interview chefs, it’s over the phone or something lame like that. Take it from me, “through a phone line” is not the ideal way to experience food. This past weekend,...
View Article‘Every Job Is Hell’: Jake Weisman From ‘Corporate’ Talks About His Show’s...
Comedy Central The workplace as a comedy setting is industry standard. In fact, if you include “police station” or “hospital” in your definition of a workplace, then virtually every scripted show on...
View Article‘Altered Carbon’ Showrunner Laeta Kalogridis Discusses The Show’s Long...
Netflix Laeta Kalogridis is best known for ambitious genre stories, whether it’s the twisting horror story of Shutter Island, which she scripted, or the upcoming, long-in-development Alita: Battle...
View ArticleA Talk With The Creators Of ‘West Cork,’ Audible’s Latest True Crime Murder...
Audible In case you haven’t noticed, true crime is having a bit of a moment. True, the genre never really went away, sitting as it does at the nexus of the murder mystery and human interest reporting....
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