Tony Hale on Arrested, Veep, and the Pains of Being Buster Bluth
“That’s maybe who Buster was based on, maybe a little bit of my dog Tuffy.” Tony Hale isn’t quite as anxious as perennial mama’s boy Buster Bluth on the newly reanimated Arrested Development (fifteen episodes will be available to stream on Netflix starting May 26) or vice presidential lackey Gary on Veep (Sundays at 10…
DetailsEric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival–Evening Two
When Eric Clapton throws a party, everyone comes. That was the impression left by the second night of the Crossroads Guitar Festival, a two-part concert raising funds for the substance abuse treatment center that he founded in the Caribbean. In addition to the previous evening’s stellar line-up, most of whom returned for encores, there were…
DetailsFinal Season to Explore Aftermath of Jenni Rivera’s Death
Jenni Rivera‘s legacy lives on with the third and final season of I Love Jenni. Premiering Sunday on the U.S.-based, Spanish-language cable channel mun2, I Love Jenni follows the successful Mexican American singer and her family. The last footage of Rivera was filmed in late October and November, and the decision to air the reality…
DetailsKmart’s Hilarious Ship My Pants Ad
Oh, words. How they can make us hear things that aren’t actually there. Case in point: the hilarious new Kmart ad, which features a number of otherwise respectable people saying “I shipped my pants” in a way that could lead one to believe they were talking about an action which is not acceptable in polite…
DetailsDa Vinci’s Demons Review
Given that Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most interesting people in history, it’s surprising nobody has taken a swing at a television series about him. Hell, he was the original Renaissance man. He’s the reason for the description. But nobody wanted to take a dramatic stab at what his life might have been…
DetailsOne Night and Two Days Review
It’s a credit to Asian LGBT filmmakers and the producers and production companies that support them that an out Korean director like Leesong Hee-il is now able to shift from the downbeat, typically fatalistic melodrama (What? Happy lesbians? Nonsense!) to explore some of the odd, bizarre, creepy, bittersweet or whatever kind of storytelling that mainstream, heteronormic…
DetailsJustin Bieber at Anne Frank House: ‘Hopefully She Would Have Been a Belieber’
The Anne Frank House, an Amsterdam museum dedicated to preserving the memory of the girl and family who hid from Nazi persecution during World War II, posted news on its official Facebook page that the pop star had recently visited the location. Along with news of the Believe artist’s visit, the museum relayed what Bieber…
DetailsZach Galifianakis to Host ‘Saturday Night Live
Zach Galifianakis is headed back to Saturday Night Live. The Hangover Part III star will host the May 4 show, NBC announced during Saturday’s episode. He will be joined by musical guest Of Monsters and Men. The comedian last hosted in 2011 to rave reviews. A year earlier, he hosted for the first time in March 2010….
DetailsQ&A: Jeremy Irons on The Borgias, the Pope, and Gay Marriage
“I think [Pope Francis] sees very clearly a lot of the problems in the Vatican, and his way of dealing with it is to try and show that the church is an organization for the people, that it’s not a vast bureaucracy completely out of touch.” Jeremy Irons isn’t one to censor himself. Don’t get…
DetailsNetflix Adds Hasbro Titles to Streaming Service
Netflix added a couple of shows from Hasbro Studios to its list of streaming TV titles through an extension of an existing agreement, the two companies said Thursday. Under terms of the deal, Netflix becomes the exclusive, over-the-top streaming destination for Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters, available today, as well as Littlest Pet Shop,…
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