Blog Profile / Vulture
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Blog Post Archive
Seitz: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Is the Best Comic Performer of the Year
Selina Meyer, the vice-president of the United States, is brusque, myopic, dismissive, self-centered, easily distracted, and quickly offended, and to a degree that often causes her to miss the policy forest because she's fixated on the political trees. She is, by all accounts, an unlikable character. But the way Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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The Best Lesser-Known Lonely Island Digital Shorts
The Lonely Island joined Saturday Night Live in September of 2005 (Andy Samberg as a cast member, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer as writers) and three months in, they secretly filmed "Lettuce," their first digital short, without Lorne Michaels's knowledge. They eventually showed it to him and he agreed to
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All 185 Choose Your Own Adventure Books Ranked From Most to Least Awesome-Sounding
Just how 20th Century Fox will turn the Choose Your Own Adventure book series into a movie remains a mystery. What we do know is that the studio has reams of source material to work from. One-hundred and eighty five books worth from the original run, to be exact. As
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Zack Snyder’s Rules of Filmmaking
Man of Steel opens this weekend, and it's sure to reignite chitchat about what kind of director Zack Snyder is. The good kind? Or the less-good kind? The kind that can make a comic-book movie, or the kind that can't? Amid these discussions, it might be helpful to refer to
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Is It Possible to Make a Hollywood Blockbuster Without Evoking 9/11?
When the World Trade towers fell on September 11, 2001, there was one refrain I heard over and over again, a common response that was both automatic and indicting: “It looked like something out of a Michael Bay movie.” More specifically, the explosions and citywide carnage resembled Armageddon, the Bay-directed
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Mindy Kaling: This Season’s Most Unexpectedly Great Physical Comedian
Everyone knows that Mindy Kaling does meet-cutes, pillow talk, and dating disasters as well as anyone on TV. But the big revelation in The Mindy Project isn’t that she can twist a rom-com trope a million different ways; it's that she's ready, willing, and able to fall off a beanbag and swing around
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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa Trailer: Steve Coogan Fights Crime, Watches YouTube Videos
Steve Coogan's most famous character, Alan Partridge, is ready for his close-up — a close-up he's been coveting for over twenty years, across multiple platforms. Alpha Papa has Partridge still working as a North Norfolk radio host, when a big media conglomerate buys his station. The real action of the
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Lincoln Was Almost an HBO Movie
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are pretty glum about the future of the movie industry, or so they indicated yesterday at a panel at USC. "We're talking Lincoln and Red Tails — we barely got them into theaters. You're talking about Steven Spielberg and George Lucas can't get their movie
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The Best TV Strategies of the Past Year — and a Really Bad One
Back in the fall of 2000, CBS executives noticed that a new crime drama they'd kinda-sorta buried on Friday nights was doing really, really well in the ratings after just a few weeks on the air. It was doing so well, in fact, that they thought the show might be
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The Replacements Are Reuniting
Twenty-two years after their last show, the Replacements are planning a series of reunion shows at this year's Riot Fests (in Chicago, Toronto, and Denver). Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson are definitely in; the rest of the lineup is to be determined. Also, you can now follow the Replacements on
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Edelstein on This Is the End: Friends Don’t Let Friends Face the Apocalypse Alone
Co-directors and co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg evidently had a lot of fun sending up their posse’s star personas and the apocalyptic disaster genre as a whole in This Is the End, and some of that fun is infectious. For a while. Maybe 45 minutes. But when actors look
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Les Miz Star Eddie Redmayne Likely to Play Stephen Hawking
Eddie Redmayne is reportedly close to landing the lead role of Theory of Everything, a film about Stephen Hawking and his wife. (Which of his two wives? Unclear. Probably Jane Wilde, who Hawking was married to for 26 years.) The film will come from James Marsh, who won a Best
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Man of Tai Chi Trailer: Keanu Kombat
The trailer for Keanu Reeves's directorial debut, Man of Tai Chi, is here, and it certainly appears someone was paying attention while starring in The Matrix. (And while playing Mortal Kombat — "FINISH HIM!") Press play for the painstakingly menacing Keanu narration, stay to the end to hear the phrases "pure fighting"
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Tom Hanks Starring in Dave Eggers Adaptation A Hologram for the King
Tom Hanks is reuniting with his Cloud Atlas co-director Tom Tykwer for a big screen version of Dave Eggers's National Book Award finalist, A Hologram for the King. Tykwer, who also helmed Run Lola Run and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, adapted the novel and will direct. The story details "a struggling businessman who, after failing
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Courteney Cox Plans Serious-Sounding Directorial Debut
Courteney Cox has tapped Hello I Must Be Going as her directorial debut. The film will star Seann William Scott as "a depressed man who heads back to his hometown to right some wrongs before committing suicide." With screenwriter David Flebotte's credits ranging from Ellen to Desperate Housewives to Boardwalk Empire,
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300: Rise of an Empire Trailer: Reign of Xerxes
The 300 sequel will be here in early 2014, a hefty eight years after the original. It looks a lot like 300, only plus Eva Green, minus Leonidas (deceased), plus a guy who looks like he was on that Starz show Spartacus, minus director Zack Snyder (Man of Steel'd; Israel's
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In a World ... Trailer: In a World Where Lake Bell Is a Triple Threat
In a world where a likable comedic actress writes, directs, and stars in a movie about voice-over artists, things look pretty damn funny. Lake Bell is said actress, who was inspired to write In a World... by her own childhood dream to voice act. The film, which opens in limited
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Mean-Girl Music: 5 Songs to Replace Sleigh Bells
There comes a moment in every teen movie — or in any movie about adults acting like teens, which is to say, stupidly — when the bad kids reveal themselves. It usually involves a Juicy sweatsuit and some poor nail-care choices; there is often a slow-motion shot of someone striding
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The 10 Best Moments From This Season’s Many, Many Awards Shows
As many concerned television executives will tell you, Americans rarely sit down to watch TV at the same time anymore — unless an awards show is on, that is, in which case everyone orders a pizza and fires up Twitter simultaneously, so that we can all snark on celebrities in
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Martha Plimpton Is an Honorary Jew
Name: Martha PlimptonAge: 42Neighborhood: Upper West SideOccupation: Actress, activist. You can catch her tomorrow at Babeland, where she and Lizz Winstead host a benefit for A is For, the organization they helped co-found. Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? My nana, Beatrice Spier. She was
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