Stephen Colbert might only have limited time left on The Colbert Report, but he’s making it count by tackling his guests with the hard-hitting questions America is dying to have answered.
Monday night, self-purported “Loser” Beck stopped by the show to promote his latest effort,Morning Phase. Before rocking out performances of “The Heart Is a Drum” and “Heaven’s Ladder,” he sat down with Colbert to talk about his genre-defying album. Beck, apparently trying to give Enya and Dido a run for their melodic money, described the offering as “a little quiet, a little bit slow, good for massages and aromatherapy.”
Colbert couldn’t let his time with the musician elapse without lifting the emotional veil on the singer just to make sure that everything’s all right under there, so he trotted out his inner therapist to ask “Why Beck sad? Is Beck sad?"
The answer? Simply that he was just in need of a hug.
The backlash against Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings is gathering momentum. After Noah’s mixed reception earlier this year, it seems that more and more people are sick of seeing Hollywood movies with “whitewashed” casts: White actors being hired to play historical figures who almost certainly were not white.
As the publicity campaign for Exodus ramped up, so did complaints on social media. Recently, many of them pointed out the racist subtext of casting white actors to play kings and prophets while black actors were cast in minor roles like “Egyptian thief.”
The latest accusation of Exodus whitewashing relates to someone who technically isn’t even a character: the Sphinx.
With an Exodus set photo that has now been retweeted over 800 times, Twitter user @BlackNerdJade pointed that in the movie, this Egyptian statue has oddly European facial features.
One of the craziest shits w/ this Exodus film is they changed the profiles of the sphinx to have European profiles pic.twitter.com/tvKnNDtqMY
Now, it’s not clear whether this is actually the Great Sphinx of Giza, or even a sphinx statue at all. It may well just be a head. However, it’s definitely a statue that is being built in Egypt during the time of the movie, sometime around 1250 BCE. For comparison, here’s a real statue of Ramses II, who in Exodus: Gods and Kings is played by the conspicuously fake-tanned Joel Edgerton.
It’s not exactly unusual for historical movies to be full of little inaccuracies, particularly when they’re blockbuster epics like Exodus. But in this case, it isn’t just a matter of a prop statue looking different from a piece of real Egyptian art, it’s the type of changes that were made. Simply put, they have taken an Egyptian statue that was built in Egypt and almost certainly based on an Egyptian face, and made it look like it belongs to a person with caucasian facial features. And people are not happy about that.
This "Exodus" movie is just not a real thing. Making the sphinx look more European. And the cast? LMFAO. Can we talk about the ENTIRE cast?
The likeliest explanation is that the sculpture is not actually a sphinx, but is in fact a statue of Ramses. This obviously means that it would have been based on Joel Edgerton’s face.
Unfortunately, this just makes the whitewashed casting even more blatant, because real statues of Ramses II simply do notlook likethat. So while Exodus may not have made a “white version” of the Great Sphinx, this is still a case of Egyptian culture being erased and rewritten to fit in with the film’s predominantly white cast of actors.
*NSYNC came out with a new album Tuesday, and nobody is more surprised by the news than one of its former members.
Lance Bass revealed that he was in the dark about the two-disc The Essential *NSYNC and had no idea there was a new “best of” album in the works from the band’s record company.
Soon after Bass posted his disbelief, an edited version of that, marked as being written by Bass, appeared on *NSYNC’s official Twitter account. None of the former members of the boy band have said anything about the new album, and it doubtfully won’t inspire another reunion.
As fans proved when the band briefly reunited at the 2013 VMAs, people still love the band years after they last made any original music together. Currently, The Essential *NSYNC is out of stock on Amazon, but you can still buy a digital copy on iTunes, which includes their biggest hits as well as this gem from Sesame Street.
Shawn Mendes might not be on mainstream music’s radar just yet, but he’s certainly a Vine star. And on Sunday, his new album landed the No. 1 spot on iTunes.
The Shawn Mendes EP, released July 28, is the 15-year-old musician’s first album, and his success on Vine, where he has 2.9 million followers, landed him a record deal with Island Records. Mendes is wholesome-looking, and uses his falsetto to heart-fluttering effect. The New York Times’ Jon Caramanica explained why exactly this ascent might have happened:
In music, at least, earnestness is the currency that makes the Internet hum. Think of all those kids staring into cameras and singing their hearts out in hopes of a little attention, buskers with hats in hand. Their purposeful lack of artifice — yes, it’s a pose, but a vulnerable one. True self inside! Just press play!
Vine’s already proven fertile ground for discovering earnest new talent, and labels have started scouting the platform for the next big thing. Mendes’ use of Twitter to launch an album up the charts is also standard practice for social media stars these days, and his devoted fanbase made it so. His album hit No. 1 in 37 minutes, as fans used the hashtag #ShawnToNumber1. As Jezebel points out, Mendes’ fanbase is largely teenage girls, who have proven they have the collective power to drive an album to No. 1 or make something trend.
His debut single, “Life of the Party,” is the kind of song tailored for singalongs and Vine covers, perfect for soundtracking, say, Apple commercials. On Vine, where art exists in six-second blinks, this earnestness is consumed even faster, and often stands in contrast to the braying teenage boy world of Vine. He is, as Caramanica says, "an emotional do-gooder."
He also knows girls want to hear him cover Queen Bey. The bigger question is, how far will earnestness take him?
Photo by torbakhopper/Flickr (CC By 2.0) | Screengrab via Shawn Mendes/Vine | Remix by fern
Proving once again that TMZ is basically the celebrity branch of the NSA, the site today released footage that might be even more incendiary than the Solange/Jay Z elevator fight: DMX screaming on an amusement park ride.
The footage shows DMX and a friend strapped into the Sling Shot ride at Orlando’s Magical Midway, which has been hailed as “one of the most heart pounding, adrenaline pumping, exhilarating thrill ride experiences in Central Florida.” The ride “lowers you into the heart” of a volcano, then shoots you into the sky as it begins to erupt. As the two are lowered, DMX lets loose with a gruff “what,” in an attempt to mentally prepare himself. He looks anxious, like he knows there’s no time to stop or drop, let alone shut ‘em down or open up shop.
"Hurry up, before I change my mind,” DMX barks at no one in particular. After he’s catapulted, he realizes there’s a camera, and that the footage is immediately being downloaded to TMZ HQ.
This is almost as good as his rendition of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
Screengrab via TMZ | Remix by Fernando Alfonso III
If you're not famous enough for real celebrities to grace your wedding, or even send a message, you can always fake it with a carefully edited video slideshow that turns your love affair into the stuff of Hollywood legend.
Redditor gump69 did just that when he was asked to edit a slideshow for his sister's wedding, and the resulting masterpiece puts possibly all other wedding-related videos to shame. Crafted in the style of an all-access documentary into the couple's lives, the video intercuts photos of the soon-to-wed pair with clips of Hollywood celebrities talking about unrelated moments from their film press junkets made to appear as if they're praising the couple.
Our favorite is Melissa McCarthy gushing about the bride's sense of humor, or Dwayne Johnson touting the groom's sport skills. There's also some stellar use of Zac Efron, Neil Patrick Harris, and Aaron Paul throughout. The creator may have spent way too much time watching Hollywood press junket clips, but for that we thank him.
Stop whatever unimportant thing it is you're doing, because here's some real news: Orlando Bloom allegedly started throwing punches at Justin Bieber last night in an exclusive Ibiza club.
TMZ is reporting that the Hollywood A-Lister lunged for the Canadian crooner early on Wednesday morning—and the celeb gossip site has the apparent aftermath caught on video.
You can just make out Bieber shout "What's up, bitch?" at the start of the recording, before he and his entourage beat a hasty retreat. The altercation allegedly took place in the exclusive Cipriani restaurant—which also played host to Paris Hilton and Diddy that night, TMZ reports.
It's said that after Beiber exited, "the crowd applauded."
Upon hearing the news, the Internet went into meltdown, as it is wont to do in these situations. A casual glance of the Twittersphere reveals an abundance of Lord Of The Rings puns, and an overwhelming number of #TeamBloom supporters.
Justin Bieber & Orlando Bloom got into a scuffle. Lord of the Rings fans are excited about this real life fight between and elf & a dwarf.
This dispute didn't come out of nowhere—TMZ has more details on the background to the confrontation:
"Justin partied with Orlando's then-wife Miranda Kerr after a 2012 Victoria's Secret fashion show in NYC and they got very VERY close. And in April of this year, Orlando was hanging out with Justin's on-and-off GF Selena Gomez. So the bad blood is flowing."
This suggests the two may yet come to blows again—and perhaps next time, Bieber won't run away.
On July 30, 2004, two young stoners set out on a simple quest: to procure some White Castle sliders. Little did they know that they were permanently changing the face of cinema.
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle struck a chord with stoners and non-stoners alike. It gobbled up dollars at the box office and spawned the sequels Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay in 2008 and A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas in 2011. It established the careers of its stars John Cho and Kal Penn, who were introduced in trailers as, respectively, "that Asian guy from American Pie" and "that Indian guy from Van Wilder." Even the White House took advantage of its popularity during Barack Obama's re-election campaign in 2012.
Additionally, it marked a career comeback for co-star Neil Patrick Harris, who went on to not only an illustrious stage career on Broadway, but also stole the show as womanizer Barney Stinson through the nine-season run of How I Met Your Mother.
To mark the 10th birthday of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, we compiled 10 of the movie's best scenes in GIF form.
"I'm so high right now!"
"Just thinking about those tender little White Castle burgers with those little, itty-bitty grilled onions that just explode in your mouth like flavor crystals every time you bite into one...just makes me want to burn this motherfucker down. Come on, Pookie, let's burn this motherfucker down! Come on, Pookie! Let's burn it, Pookie!"
"Dude, the diarrhea twins totally would have had sex with us."
Harold rids himself of a raccoon the only way he can.
"Lap...dance…"
"On a scale from one to 10, one being not so extreme and 10 being extremely extreme, I give that a 9.5!"
Kumar doesn't need weed to have strange fantasies.
"This is either a really smart move or by far the stupidest thing that we have ever tried."
"I want 30 sliders, five french fries, and four large Cherry Cokes."
"I want the same thing, only make mine Diet Cokes."
YouTube content continues to push the boundaries of art as well as explore and remix new formats, and the newest entrant into the webseries scene is no exception. Intergalactic Nemesis is billed as “radio-play graphic novel” mashup that debuted last week, although the series has a long and storied history offline.
Starting as a live radio serial done in installments in Austin, Texas, the show brings together live sound effects, actors, an accompanist, and graphic novel panels to form a unique performance piece. The group has toured the country with their live show and aired on Austin’s local PBS affiliate, KLRU. It was through their relationship with KLRU that they connected with PBS Digital Studios for the opportunity to create a 17-week webseries, which series creator Jason Neulander sees as a terrific partnership.
“We were the recipient of a grant from PBS Digital Studios that was a small amount guaranteed and they matched dollar for dollar what we raised on an Indiegogo campaign up to a $20,000 match,” Neulander explained. “That really helped a huge amount. it allowed us to shoot the thing in the Austin City Limits studios, it allowed us to have enough camera people, it allowed us to use highest quality equipment.”
In addition to the PBS Digital support, the group has a leg-up in moving from offline to a digital experience, in that they already had a completely finished and fully rehearsed show.
“Taping actually happened over the course of 2 days,” Neulander told the Daily Dot. “We did straight through without stopping. We did a few pickups, but basically the whole thing was done in two takes.”
Neulander said the challenge for translating the live-action version of Intergalactic Nemesis to screen was organizing and animating all their individual comic panels in a way that keeps the story flowing.
“We knew what the priorities were in terms of the visual experience of watching the show,” he said. “But to figure out how to exactly do that so that the mechanics of how we tell the story is second. The first pass through was almost impossible to watch. So much was happening all at once, scattered across the screen almost randomly. That has been an enormous amount of work.”
Despite the challenges, Neulander and his team are already talking about shooting two seasons, creating an Intergalactic Nemesis trilogy. It's a big jump for a group that had only had experience using YouTube to upload promotional trailers, but Neulander says they’re interested in really exploring the world of YouTube and its network of stars as they move forward.
“I feel like being in Austin, or just the way I’ve gone about doing work which is entirely the indie route, I have totally not figured out how to navigate making those connections [in the YouTube space],” he said. When asked about future collaborations with YouTube stars like Tyler Oakley or Jenna Marbles, he was enthusiastic. “I’d love to make that happen, and I’m absolutely open to it. Bring it on!”
If that means succuming to the ever-present YouTube lure of brand deals too, Neulander is game.
“We are open to that kind of pimping ourselves out, no problem,” he laughed.
More than 100,000 people have turned to YouTube to watch the South Carolina singer No Cash sing John Legend and Drake on the southern California streets.
Under a page run by the comedy collaborative SpikeFe, he stands on the streets telling passer-bys he’ll “work for food.” Videos of him singing say he’s homeless, but there’s a growing suspicion it’s actually all a set up.
This has nothing to do with No Cash’s singing abilities. The story of the homeless man with the golden voice is well documented. It’s the assembly, rather, and the way No Cash is being presented.
To make nothing of the production backgrounds of the group behind the videos—you rarely see Nicki Minaj response videos next to cutting-edge societal documentaries—there’s the general demeanor of the man: a homeless rapper who shills Doritos and maintains an active Twitter page. No Cash is clean in the face, kept in the hair, fully endearing, and wearing an ear ring.
In the latest video, released Sunday, he sings two minutes of an original country song called “Cow Girl.”
The New York Daily News identified the singer as Byon Artell McCullough, 28, of Florence, SC, and reported that he turned to homeless singing after serving three-and-a-half years in prison on drug charges.
But a Dec. 2013 video from Byon McCullough’s personal YouTube page shows the character driving into a neighborhood in a new Jaguar singing all jingly about J.G. Wentworth structured settlements and annuity plans.
Which is awesome.
So is he homeless? Who cares? 90 percent of musicians crash on couches anyway. And also eat Doritos.
Are you having a good morning? Commute to work went smoothly? Boss said you looked nice today, and you’re generally in a good mood? Well, good for you. That’s all gonna change in about three to five seconds, when you find out that Allison Williams, a.k.a. Marnie on Girls, has been cast as Peter Pan in NBC’s musical production of Peter Pan.
Didn’t catch that? Let’s try this again: Allison Williams, an actress who is primarily known for being A) Brian Williams’s daughter, and B) the prettiest, least interesting, and best-eyebrowed cast member of Girls, has been cast as Peter Pan in NBC’s musical adaptation of Peter Pan. She’ll be playing the role alongside Christopher Walken, who’s been cast as Captain Hook.
“We couldn’t be happier that Allison Williams is our Peter Pan,” said NBC chief Robert Greenblatt. “She’s a lovely rising star on the award-winning show Girls—where she occasionally shows off her incredible vocal talent—and we think she will bring the perfect blend of ‘boyish’ vulnerability and bravado to save the day against Christopher Walken’s powerful Captain Hook.”
Naturally, the Internet is not happy that Williams, who along with her Girls castmates has been frequently accused of being the beneficiary of nepotism, has been cast in of the most famous theater roles of all time, a role that was famously originated on Broadway by musical theater legend Mary Martin.
who dreamed this RT @nbc: Dreams do come true! #Girls star Allison Williams will play Peter Pan in #PeterPanLive!
It’s not that Allison Williams can’t sing, as she’s demonstrated on various episodes of Girls. (Not to mention in a series of nauseating musical theater covers she shot while she was in college, which are all available to watch/cringe at on YouTube). It’s that her flinty, weak soprano is totally inappropriate for the role of Peter Pan, which requires a big, booming voice and presence.
It’ll be interesting to see whether her turn as Peter Pan will be as poorly received as Carrie Underwood’s portrayal of Maria—a role also originated by Mary Martin—in last year’s The Sound of Music Live!, but I think I speak for most of us musical-theater lovers when I say the following:
We’ve got a new contender for the best voiceover in nature documentaries.
It’s almost impossible and unthinkable to replace Sir David Attenborough’s narration on Planet Earth, but Jimmy Kimmel had other ideas. He recruited Snoop Dogg, a renowned connoisseur of all things green, to lend his voice to the nature documentary series.
Recounting a “journey below the sea” to discover a great white shark, Snoop is both insightful and emotive, especially when it comes to some of the crueler parts of nature.
It’s a hard life for a cold-blooded killer—not to mention those seals.
Alternative music festival Alt-Fest has been described by the Guardian as a "Kickstarter phenomenon," and was billed by its organiser Dominic Void as an "experiment in democracy" after it surpassed 200 percent of its crowdfunding goal. But the lofty dreams of "the world's first bespoke festival" have come to an ignominious end as bands have taken to the Internet to announce the abrupt cancellation of the event—just two weeks before it was due to start.
Alt-Fest had booked some of the biggest names from across the alternative music scene, including Marilyn Manson, Gary Numan, Cradle of Filth, and Professor Elemental, and was scheduled to take place from the 15-17 August in Kettering in the United Kingdom.
But on Tuesday, booked acts began telling their dismayed fans that the festival has been abruptly cancelled—though the organisers of Alt-Fest have remained quiet throughout. "We received notice this morning that the Alt-Fest festival… has been cancelled," Combichrist posted on their Facebook page. "As of now the organisers haven't made an official announcement but unless there is a massive cabal afoot, we will believe the world we received from our agency." Likewise, Marylin Manson has indicated that the festival is cancelled.
A promotional video for the festival.
The original Kickstarter campaign closed in April 2013, bringing in £61,762—205 percent of the initial £30,000 goal. Rewards included silicon wristbands (£13 pledge), camping tickets (£70), and a chance for your band to play on the main stage (£1,000). The crowdfunding campaign was not the festival's only source of money: £10,000 came in through their "Dismembership club," and "third-party supporters" have also been involved.
Gigwise reached out to Alt-Fest's PR agency, who told the music news site they had only been made aware of "the situation" yesterday and are no longer working with the event.
Rob Ferguson—who manages multiple acts due to play at Alt-Fest—tweeted about Alt-Fest, providing more confirmation of the apparent cancellation:
Well, what a surprise. Alt Fest is no more.........I feel extremely sorry for all those who will undoubtedly lose money. Bad times.
"I got confirmation via text message but also spoke with some of the main stage acts and they've also been told," Beholder band-member Simon Hall said. "It started with a pledge scheme as fans entrusted in a unique concept and ended with media scrambling over themselves to be involved, bands not being advanced and being drip fed bullshit for months and fans being dumped on last minute. Something that I personally had visions of months ago."
Another source Virtual Festivals spoke to said that they "never actually expected it to happen… I did the math in my head and I can't see how they were raising enough money to pay for site/production let alone the bands."
We called Broughton Estate—the planned site of Alt-Fest—for comment. We were told, loudly and repeatedly, that they "don't know anything about that," before they hung up on us when we asked to speak to someone who might.
Virtual Festivals reports that Clubtickets.com's policies will allow for refunds once the ticket site receives official confirmation of cancellation from the organisers—but it's not clear how and when the Kickstarter backers will receive refunds, if at all.
Representatives of Alt-Fest did not return requests for comment.
You can no longer watch Airplane! on Netflix? Surely you can't be serious.
Unfortunately, Netflix is serious (and also requests that you not call it Shirley). As is the case each month, the streaming giant is making a number of titles unavailable for viewing as its various licensing agreements with studios expire.
This time around, Top Secret!, which was made by the same directing team as Airplane!, will also disappear, as will flicks like Braveheart, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and Easy Rider.
Here is a complete list of titles that will no longer be available to stream once Aug. 1 rolls around. Perhaps Netflix is subtly hinting that we go outside and enjoy what's left of summer.
The Addams Family
Airplane!
Attack of the Crab Monster
Barbarian Queen
Bounty Hunters
Braveheart
Breakdown
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
A Christmas Carol: The Movie
The City of Lost Children
Clay Pigeons
Clockers
Cocaine Unwrapped
Crazy for Christmas
Crime Zone
Days of Thunder
Death Stalker
Dinocroc
Donnie Brasco
Duplex (July 30)
Easy Rider
Fatherhood Dreams
Fido
Forbidden World
The Ghost and the Darkness
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
The Good Son
Haunting of Hellhouse
The Haunting of Julia
House of the Dead 2
The Hunted
The Incredible Melting Man
Lady Frankenstein
Maximum Overdrive
Mel Brooks: To Be or Not to Be
Mia and the Migoo
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Neil Young – Heart of Gold
Night of the Cobra Woman
Paper Moon
The Pianist
Piranha
The Rainmaker
Rid of Me
Runaway Bride
Seven Minutes in Heaven
She Done Him Wrong
Somewhere in Time
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Top Secret!
Thinner
Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby
Valkyrie
Wake Up
Waking Ned Devine
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Plus, a slate of the 30 for 30 series of ESPN sports documentaries are getting benched, including:
30 for 30: The 16th Man
30 for 30: 26 Years: The Dewey Bozella Story
30 for 30: The Band That Wouldn’t Die
30 for 30: The Best That Never Was
30 for 30: The Birth of Big Air
30 for 30: Charismatic
30 for 30: The Dotted Line
30 for 30: Fernando Nation
30 for 30: Guru of Go
30 for 30: The House of Steinbrenner
30 for 30: Into the Wind
30 for 30: Jordan Rides the Bus
30 for 30: June 17th, 1994
30 for 30: Kings Ransom
30 for 30: Little Big Men
30 for 30: Marion Jones: Press Pause
30 for 30: Muhammad Ali and Larry
30 for 30: No Crossover: The Trial Of Allen Iverson
30 for 30: Once Brothers
30 for 30: Pony Excess
30 for 30: Renée
30 for 30: Roll Tide/War Eagle
30 for 30: Run Ricky Run
30 for 30: Silly Little Game
30 for 30: Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
30 for 30: Tim Richmond: To the Limit
30 for 30: The Two Escobars
30 for 30: The U
30 for 30: Unguarded
30 for 30: Unmatched
30 for 30: Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks
If you’ve heard much about Snowpiercer, you’ve probably know film fans are miffed about its weirdly limited cinema release.
Despite performing well in South Korea, Japan and across Europe, Snowpiercer’s U.S. distributor, the Weinstein Company, was convinced that it needed some radical editing to make it palatable to American audiences. The film’s director balked, critics started writing furious defenses of the original cut (not to mention giving it a 94 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes), and eventually Snowpiercer got a limited release in U.S. theatres.
The film achieved blockbuster success overseas and stars Captain America’s Chris Evans in the lead role, but Snowpiercer has become more like a cult indie hit among U.S. audiences. One of the reasons for that is on-demand streaming services.
In an unusual move, the Weinstein Company decided to release Snowpiercer on VOD while the film was still showing in cinemas. And after just two weeks, it’s made an impressive $3.8 million.
This is a pretty big haul for a film that never really received the publicity it deserved. But this VOD success is likely to be a tiny fraction of what Snowpiercer might have made if the Weinsteins had bothered to promote it to American audiences.
Generally, a simultaneous theatrical and VOD release is a bad sign, indicating that the studio doesn’t expect audiences to pay for theater tickets. In this case, the word-of-mouth buzz for Snowpiercer is the most likely explanation for its impressive performance on VOD: People heard it was a good movie, but couldn’t find it at their local multiplex.
The film made more than $81 million overseas, but with it’s comparatively tiny U.S. release, it seems that Snowpiercer is still retaining its arthouse underdog status.
Lollapalooza, a weekend-long music festival of some repute held in Chicago’s Grant Park, kicks off in two days—but you’re not, like, going, are you? Because plenty of it will also be online.
Yes, there’s a pleasant digital respite from the sweaty crowds and scalpers’ prices: More than 50 bands’ performances will be available to stream on a Redbull.tv webcast. Check the official trailer to get jazzed about it, then skim the schedule below to figure out your can’t-miss sets.
As with the festival itself, you’ll have to make some hard scheduling choices: the number following each act’s name corresponds to one of three channels where the music will air. All times pm and CT.
Celebrity press tours can either provide a plethora of awkward interviews or unscripted gems for the audience. Luckily for us, the Guardians of the Galaxy cast are quickly proving to fall into the latter category.
Chris Pratt is already beloved by the Internet with a massive number of Parks and Recreation GIFs and now his newly discovered (by many) French-braiding talents, but this time co-stars Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista join him as the trio interviewed one another for Moviefone.
They each took questions from the fans, but what’s even more interesting than the actual answers is how they take to acting them out. The entire interview is worth watching, and while you won’t necessarily learn anything new about the movie, they’re all equally charming as they geek out over American Ninja Warrior, crush on Saldana’s husband, and laugh at Pratt recreating his reaction to getting his role by miming pooping himself.
You won’t be able to get that last image out of your head.
Warning: The language in this story and video might be considered NSFW.
When the swearing gods decide to take the brilliant and talented Samuel L. Jackson from this earth back to glorious motherf@#king heaven, we’ll already have the perfect in memoriam video montage cued up thanks to the folks over at The Huffington Post.
A couple of the genius entertainment editors did the lord's work by compiling this cuss-tastic supercut of every time Jackson has uttered his signature swear, "motherfucker," throughout his career. The grand cursing total comes in at 171 utterances in 27 different films.
But Jackson’s signature swear isn’t superfluous. The actor says it's a necessay tool in preparing himself for his roles. As he told the crowd at the American Institute for Stuttering gala last year, his cursing isn’t just for our amusement, it helps him get through days when his stutter flares up. As Vulture reported:
some days, the best thing for me to do is say my favorite word, and I get through it: 'Motherfucker!'...I say it and it helps, like even if I just say it to myself, under my breath. I don't stutter when I say that word.
A full list of Jackson's swear count in each film is available over at The Huffington Post for you swearing purists. For the rest of you, enjoy this motherf&*kin' supercut, and the range with which Jackson can imbue a single word.
Ever wonder what happens to the network-run social media accounts of your least-favorite TV shows after they face cancelation? While many Twitter or Tumblr accounts are purged of content and recyled into the accounts of new shows, they are just as often left abandoned and unupdated by the network social team. Splitsider took a hilarious look at the social media accounts of various canceled comedies and the legacies they leave behind after the series leave the airwaves.
Our favorite? The sad existence of Go On's social media presence. The show, a Matthew Perry vehicle on NBC about grief counseling, was actually not too bad, but as Splitsider points out the Twitter is "a repository of context-free quotes from the show" while its Facebook fan page remains active with pleas for the show to return. A pretty depressing relic to leave languishing on the Internet.
Recent shows aren't the only ones with social media graveyards. Super-popular programs of years pre-Twitter have their own largely followed and yet abandoned accounts, often run by superfans. Friends, which still thrives in reruns, boasts no official account, but there is a dead-since-2010 fan-run account that four years ago was campainging for a Friends film.
It's the end of the month, and you're hurriedly binge-watching some of the 80-plus moviesNetflix is pulling come August. You're quoting all the catchphrases from Airplane!, tearing up at motivational speeches from Braveheart … and slowly resigning yourself to the fact that you'll never be able to watch them all. Sorry.
But it's not all doom and gloom. While those movies will be vanishing, Netflix will be unlocking access to several new titles. Unfortunately, as seems to be the case each time this happens, what will become available doesn't quite justify replacing what once was. After all, swapping classics like Airplane! and Braveheart for crud like Corky Romano doesn't make moviebinge-watching any more pleasant.
Here are titles that will be available on Netflix starting Aug. 1.
Becoming Jane
Best Laid Plans
Blink
Blown Away
Blue Car
Bounce
Boys and Girls
Brian's Song
Bridget Jones's Diary
Buffalo Soldiers
Caveman
Chinatown
Chocolat
Cleopatra
Corky Romano
Cypher
Down to You
Deep Blue
Elizabethtown
Plus, select seasons of these shows and movies will find their way to the site later on next month.
