2015 Emmy Predictions: Our final picks on who will win
The 2015 Emmy Awards are this Sunday where Television's finest will come together to honor the best and brightest of the year. Below are our final predictions on who will win and who should stay home. Here are our 2015 Emmy Predictions! Come back to Smash Cut tonight for our Live Blog of the ceremony!…
Hannibal Review: “The Number of the Beast is 666” (3×12)
HANNIBAL -- "The Number of the Beast is 666" Episode 312 -- Pictured: (l-r) Raul Esparza as Dr. Chilton, Hugh Dancy as Will Graham -- (Photo by: Brooke Palmer/NBC) Let’s get one thing straight immediately: “The Number of the Beast is 666” is a non-stop tour de force, from beginning to…
The Scour: “internet lust” – bbrainz
Hey guys, I'm Christopher Hopkins and welcome to The Scour, where I look for new music in every possible region to give you guys hidden gems that could rival the big releases this year. Today, we've got a heavily sampled album out of Argentina that is part of a recent art movement called vaporwave. I've…
Emmy 2015 Spotlight: “Mad Men”
Photo by Vulture How will Don Draper die? Throughout the final episodes of Mad Men, which aired the second half of its final season this past spring, it was this question, and increasingly speculative answers to it, that dominated so much discussion of the show. As is so often the case…
Emmy Spotlight: Inside Amy Schumer
By most measures Amy Schumer is an unlikely It Girl. She is crude and often vulgar. She does not look like or present herself as a vapid, bleached-blond wastrel. She speaks bluntly and frankly about the very system that regularly anoints It Girls, and what she has to say is sharply critical. And yet here…
Hannibal Review: “…And the Beast From the Sea” (3×11)
HANNIBAL -- "...and the Beast from the Sea" Episode 311 -- Pictured: Hugh Dancy as Will Graham -- (Photo by: Ian Watson/NBC) As Hannibal has adapted Red Dragon proper, it has been as consistently great as we’ve come to expect from the series, but it has also been something new: conventional.…
Femme Fatales: The Top Five Female Vocalists
Music has always been enchanted by the beautiful vocals of strong female artists from Tina Turner to Madonna and Pat Benatar to Aretha Franklin. Presently, we have a beautifully diverse and expansive array of female vocalists to enjoy, but I chose five incredibly talented women to talk about today. Of course we have the stunning…
Femme Fatale Friday: The Pierces
It is no secret who this week's Femme Fatale is, or should I say fatales? The Pierces lay claim like kings to the title this Friday. Enough with my song related puns? Okay, I'll stop. You may recognize the sister duo as the voices behind "Secret," the creepily intoxicating theme song from Pretty Little Liars.…
Hannibal Review: “And the Woman Clothed in Sun” (3×10)
Given its parallel title, it should be no surprise that "And the Woman Clothed in Sun” is, more or less, a direct continuation of the preceding episode, even more so than this highly serialized final run of episodes. Mostly, what’s here is further explication of Francis Dolarhyde, specifically and more generally, a further explication of…
Hannibal Review: “And the Woman Clothed with the Sun…” (3×09)
By now, the project of what is essentially Bryan Fuller’s version of a Red Dragon miniseries is abundantly clear: Hannibal is portraying two parallel and intersecting stories about the lasting effects that a man like Hannibal Lecter and his various, horrible misdeeds can have on the world around him. That’s a thread that runs through…