Tonight’s the 90-minute season finale of ABC’s ‘The Superstars’ (8/7c)! Final three couples: Maksim Chmerkovskiy & Kristi Leskinen, Bode Miller & Paige Hemmis, and Lisa Leslie & David Charvet. Oh, look, a perfect excuse to embed a preview clip of my crush object Maks as he discusses his balls.
Will Maks resolve his testicular issues in time to win a victory lap around the lazy river at Atlantis Resort and Casino? Should you go see Maks and Karina in Burn the Floor within the next few weeks? Is the end nigh? Only one of those questions demands zero further pondering on your part. (Yes, try to see Burn the Floor, which EW gave an A-.)
Last night, Jeremy Piven hosted WWE Monday Night Raw, along with The Hangover‘s Ken Jeong, costar of his new movie The Goods. (Their entrance.) When I last watched wrestling, Rock ‘n’ Roll Express was huge, so forgive me if I get this wrong: Apparently, Piven back-stabbed John Cena by handpicking Randy Orton, Legacy, and others as the “lumberjacks” — guys whose job it is to line the ring and toss you back in it, after they pound on you — for Cena’s Lumberjack Match with The Miz (aka The Real World‘s Mike Mizanin).
Things got “interesting” when Piven took to the ropes himself (pictured). Let’s just say the producers of Broadway’s Speed the Plow will enjoy the clip after the jump on multiple levels.
Oh, Weeds. Weeds, Weeds, Weeds, Weeds, Weeds. Just when I think a season seems on track (this season!), or things vaguely make a little bit of sense within the show’s universe (continuity within the Esteban storyline!), or seemingly disparate plot points start moving towards each other (Celia’s financial woes and Doug/Silas’ pot store), you go and throw me for a freakin’ loop and a half. Total, spoiler-filled discussion of last night’s episode ahead…. READ FULL STORY »
I’ve pondered this question deeply this morning upon hearing the news that ABC Family is making yet another sequel — the third now — to the 1992 sleepover favorite starring Moira Kelly and D.B. Sweeney. And I’ve decided the answer is: No. There is not such a thing as too much Cutting Edge. The fact is, I would queue up that old VHS tape (yes, it’s available on DVD — even in a Gold Medal Edition! — but I like to maintain the authenticity of the experience) right now and enjoy every minute of the he’s-a-tough-hockey-player, she’s-a-spoiled-figure-skater clashes just as much as the first time I watched it, despite the fact that I’ve probably seen it at least a dozen times. (To me, that means there’s plenty of juice for at least a made-for-TV sequel or three.) Please enjoy this trailer, in case you’ve forgotten how much fun it is — and reflect fondly on a time when a Pamchenko could solve everyone’s problems. (Surely you haven’t forgotten what becomes the couple’s signature — and totally physically impossible in real-life, as dissected brilliantly by The Onion‘s A.V. Club — move.)
Take your seats, class: Movie critic Owen Gleiberman is kicking off his exploration of horror movies for week 6 of EW University. Check out our gallery of the 20 Top Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Stick around all summer long for future EW University courses on Quentin Tarantino, vampires, and more.
‘Psycho’: Still scaring the pants off us
If you’re reading this, it’s a fair bet that you, like me, are too young to have seen Psycho when it first came out, in 1960. And for anyone who didn’t see it then, it’s probably safe to say that none of us can ever fully know what it felt like to experience the shock — the sheer bloody jaw-dropping terror — of Alfred Hitchcock’s game-changing masterpiece of horror. Imagine the shivery jolt of the opening shark attack in Jaws, magnified 500 times. Because in Jaws, of course, everyone knows, on some level, what’s coming. Hitchcock, by contrast, used Psycho to play the ultimate dirty trick. He killed off his lead actress, Janet Leigh, halfway through the movie, and he did it with such unspeakable out-of-nowhere savagery that he seemed to be pulling the rug, the floor, and the earth right out from under the audience. He opened an abyss, exposing moviegoers to a dark side that few, at the time, could ever have dared to imagine.
Psycho was adapted from a novel that was based on the case of Ed Gein, the demented murderer and graverobber from rural Wisconsin who became the first — and still most legendary — of all modern serial killers. (Twenty-four years later, he inspired The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as well; he was the sick puppy who kept on giving.) But it’s doubtful, in the early ‘60s, that almost any American had ever even heard the term “serial killer.” We were still a long way from Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, or chianti jokes. READ FULL STORY »
Has the Internet ever freaked this hard over a commercial for a preview of a trailer?Lovely Bones fans, listen up: Entertainment Tonight will air a first look at movie on tonight’s show. It’s an exclusive! The full-length trailer doesn’t even debut in theaters (it’ll show before Julie & Julia) until Friday!But for today’s trailer trailer, ET has cobbled together an insane obstacle course of some of the most “action”-based half-seconds from the film, as well as a closeup of Susan Sarandon smoking and a series of ET‘s own migraine-inducing animated graphics. But by all means! Try your mightiest to ignore the sensationalistic voiceover and hold your first judgments on “ONE OF THE YEAR’S MOST ANTICIPATED MOVIES.” Check back at PopWatch and EW.com’s Shelf Life blog tomorrow, and we’ll weigh in how Peter Jackson’s images measure up to the novel after seeing more — hopefully much more — Lovely Bones footage…
I liked the perkiness of the old typeface, and while this design is sleeker, I want to see it in motion. One of the things I remember about the splat was it landing on stuff, swooping in and spilling itself on the bottom corner of an interstitial, so I’m assuming the new logo will do the same in some capacity — I’m guessing the “I” is going to be turned into a person at some point, but who knows.
I just have a case of the Andy Rooneys, right, PopWatchers, where I’m unfairly assuming everything new is sucky and everything old rules? Or are you attached to ye olde splat logo, too?
Is it just me, or does this year’s Shark Week have more fake blood in the water than ever before? I’m not complaining; I’m just noting that Discovery has really embraced the art of the reenactment for the 22nd anniversary. (See: the clip below from tonight’s premiere, Sharkbite Summer.)
Jonathan Liebesman’s The Killing Room — starring Nick Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Peter Stormare, Chloe Sevigny, Shea Whigham and Clea DuVall — premiered at Sundance earlier this year but never made it to U.S. theaters. It’ll be available for purchase on DVD on October 19 in the U.S., but you can already Netflix it or rent it at something called a “video store.” In the film, four volunteers for what appears to be a paid research study get caught up in a classified government program. Quick! What number do Americans choose most frequently between 1 and 33? I would have said 12 because I always say 12 and I’m such a contrarian, but now 7 is making a lot of sense to me, too. Mind control. The official trailer is below. What do you think, and may we monitor those thoughts? And CHOOSE A NUMBER.
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Take your seats, class: Movie critic Owen Gleiberman is kicking off his exploration of horror movies for week 6 of 
