Jon Favreau has a new movie out this weekend called The Mandalorian and Grogu. Unfortunately, I found it disappointing. I do not really know Jon Favreau and I have not interacted with him since hosting a 2014 Apple Store Q&A with him about Chef, which is a great
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“Do you know how hard it is to be your own man when your dad is Jabba the Hutt?” This is a line of dialogue in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, spoken by Jeremy Allen White as Rotta the Hutt. In the last few months, White has played both
Sunday would have been Bill Paxton's 71st birthday. It has, somehow, been over nine years since he died and he's an actor I miss a lot. I have a Bill Paxton story I've never really told and, hopefully, paints a picture of the kind
First, yes, I'm aware a lot of people have stolen this video from me. But, what can you do? Anyway, here's the story. On Thursday night, I saw Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for the first time on this current tour, which was at
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It was a glorious sight to behold. I've never seen anything like it and, most likely, I never will again. There's almost no chance you will ever see it, so I am going to try my best to bring you there through words and photos. Honestly,
Criterion announced, finally, Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore will be getting a release this July. I think it's one of Scorsese's most unique films and one of his best. I suspect the new Criterion release will get it more due
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The Hard Pass turned three months old this week. It's weird, I've actually been enjoying the experience of newsletter writing so much more than I thought I would, I'm kind of kicking myself for not starting earlier. On the other hand, things have a
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I used to write a weekly feature about Saturday Night Live called SNL Scorecard. In 2010, I initially pitched Vulture this idea when Mark Graham, who did their SNL recaps at the time, left for (I think?) VH-1. For its final season, I was doing weekly Lost interviews for
Today is Star Wars Day, because it is May the fourth and "fourth" sounds a little bit like "force." It is also the day before Cinco de Mayo, a day celebrating the 1862 Mexican victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla, in which a
Here's some life advice: never find yourself in a position where you have to tell Jeff Bridges, "no." Actually, that's not quite what happened, as I didn't exactly tell Jeff Bridges, "no," but it was more I wasn't
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The Devil Wears Prada was released in theaters 20 years ago and has, since, been played on a never ending loop on every cable television channel that exists. There's a good chance I've seen at least parts of The Devil Wears Prada more times than any
I first pondered this question on July 2, 2015 with a post that published at Uproxx right before 4th of July weekend. What that actually means is I was finally allowed to write about a TV show that had been off the air for almost 50 years (at that point)