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Archives for August 2015
This is what Seinfeld would look like as tearjerking Oscar bait.
Does this 1947 prop comic prove that prop comics are undeniable geniuses?
Jonathan Franzen wanted to learn about American youths. What he wanted to do in order to achieve that will surprise you.
Even the best actors have bad days. Stewart tells us all about a couple of his.
American Ultra is a lot of things, but a stoner comedy it isn’t.
I have seen the future of internet reading, and it is glorious.
The studio has banked much of its success off counter-programming to audiences Hollywood often misses.
A much-praised new book is too snobby about political language.
But defining 18-year-olds by the things they don’t remember is still really dumb.
You should play basically anything else instead.
The presidential candidate’s discussion of the classic film is oddly prescient of his campaign’s strengths and weaknesses.
A big step.
Just when you think you have this show figured out, it heads off toward something else entirely.
I wanted to know what these men were like, not on Reddit or on Twitter or on any other forum where they are actively engaged in their cause, but in ordinary life — relaxed, after having a few, and without a keyboard to take it out on.
Get ready for the BuzzFeed Olympics. (Really.)