Author: Clark Collis (1-10 of 221)

May 24 2012 12:00 PM ET

Elijah Wood joins the cast of 'Red vs. Blue.' Plus: Season 10 trailer -- EXCLUSIVE

sigma-elijah-wood

The tenth season of animated sci-fi-action-comedy series Red vs. Blue debuts on RoosterTeeth.com on May 28, and co-director Burnie Burns promises the run of shows will be marked by a level of quality routinely lacking in the soldiery skills of its bickering future-warriors. “We thought, ‘We’re hitting ten seasons, we should definitely pull out all the stops,’” says Burns, who also voices the characters Church and Alpha on the video game-inspired show. “We’re wrapping up a lot of the stories, paying off a lot of things. We’re taking the series up a level or two and trying to make it as big and as bada– as we possibly can. We’re just making sure that the action scenes are as over the top and as awesome as they possibly can be.”

READ FULL STORY »

May 12 2012 11:03 AM ET

'Hello to Jason Isaacs!' The 'Awake' star talks about accidentally spawning his own strange pop culture phenomenon

AWAKE

Image Credit: Justin Lubin/NBC

On May 24, Awake fans will say goodbye to Jason Isaacs’ parallel universes-dwelling cop Michael Britten in the season finale of the fantasy-inclined police procedural. And that farewell looks to be a permanent one following yesterday’s news that the admired but audience-impoverished show did not earn a pickup. However, there is a group of Jason Isaacs fans who never want to say “Goodbye” to the British actor — in fact, they’re only interested in saying “Hello.”

READ FULL STORY »

May 3 2012 03:37 PM ET

'Re-Animator: The Musical': Director Stuart Gordon talks about his singing-and-beheading theatrical spectacular

re-animantor-poster

A few years back, film director Stuart Gordon had the thought that his gore-filled 1985 horror movie Re-Animator might be improved with the addition of some songs. It was an odd idea — but an ultimately successful one. In the spring of 2011, Re-Animator: The Musical opened at Hollywood’s Steve Allen Theater to great reviews (Variety hailed it as “an entertainment of rich rewards and high accomplishment”) and tonight the play officially starts a second run at the Hayworth Theatre, prior to engagements at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and the Edinburgh Festival. The H.P. Lovecraft-inspired tale stars Graham Skipper as the corpse-reanimating Herbert West, George Wendt as the unfortunate Dean Halsey, and large amounts of fake blood as, well, large amounts of not-fake blood.

Gordon — who is both the show’s director and coauthor of its book — talks about his hopes for Re-Animator: The Musical, the possibility of fourth Re-Animator movie, and why his brother eats bugs — literally.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did Re-Animator: The Musical come about in the first place?
STUART GORDON:
I just saw it in my head, how you could do this as a musical. People had been suggesting it to me for several years and I kind of laughed. I thought it was a ridiculous idea. But one day it sort of hit me — all of the effects in the movie were done practically on a stage, so we could do them all live in front of audiences.

READ FULL STORY »

Mar 30 2012 02:11 PM ET

'Dollhouse' star Fran Kranz talks 'The Cabin in the Woods,' 'Death of a Salesman' and Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing'

cabin-in-the-woods-fran-kranz

Image Credit: Diyah Pera

It is hard to think of two projects more different than the horror-comedy The Cabin in the Woods, which hits cinemas April 13, and the new Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, which opened a couple of weeks back (to a rave review from EW’s Thom Geier). But they do have a couple things in common. Both productions have an impressive amount of behind-the-scenes talent: Cabin was cowritten by Buffy creator Joss Whedon while Salesman is directed by the legendary Mike Nichols. And both feature ex-Dollhouse actor Fran Kranz, who plays the role of Bernard in Salesman and that of a conspiracy-obsessed stoner named Marty in Cabin (FYI: that’s a giant bong he’s holding in the picture to the left).

Kranz recently visited the EW offices to talk about working with Whedon (three times) and being shouted at by his Salesman costar Philip Seymour Hoffman (pretty much all the time).

READ FULL STORY »

Mar 15 2012 07:45 PM ET

'Walking Dead' writer Robert Kirkman to reveal origins of zombie-slayer Michonne in new comic

WALKING-DEAD-PLAYBOY.jpg

Image Credit: Playboy

Readers of the Walking Dead comic waiting to see the character Michonne make her semi-promised debut on the TV show version have so far been waiting in vain. But fans of the sword-wielding zombie-slayer will soon finally be able to find out how she got to be, well, a sword-wielding zombie-slayer.

READ FULL STORY »

Mar 8 2012 04:13 PM ET

Dollar Shave Club commercial: 'Are the blades any good? No. They're [expletive] great!' -- VIDEO

DOLLAR-SHAVE-CLUB

Are you a human being who periodically needs to shave and/or has a sense of humor? Then you’re going to want to check out the commercial below for what appears to be an actual company called Dollar Shave Club.

I don’t want to spoil the fun. But there’s little doubt it’s the funniest razor ad of all-time thanks to the commercial’s hilarious use of a machete, a man in a bear suit, a reference to polio, a small child, and an expletive. We may also have found the new “that-guy-from-the-Old-Spice commercial.”

The YouTube clip has already racked up more than 1.5 million hits in the last couple of days. I’m only surprised it’s not more.

Enjoy! READ FULL STORY »

Jan 25 2012 05:32 PM ET

'The Walking Dead' meets 'Growing Pains' in hilarious mashup -- VIDEO

walking-dead

Image Credit: Gene Page/AMC

Ever wondered what AMC’s zombie-tacular show The Walking Dead might look like if it was an ’80s sitcom? Of course you haven’t. That would be crazy! But this hasn’t stopped someone providing the answer in the form of a video mashup which boasts both the theme song from Growing Pains and some entertainingly retro, fake credits (“Guest starring Well Zombie”).

What would Merle have to say about all this? (Something horribly racist, probably. So let’s not dwell on that!)

You can check out the clip below. The “real” Walking Dead returns on Feb. 12. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 11 2011 11:49 AM ET

'Saturday Night Live' recap: Host Katy Perry was surprisingly restrained. Matt Damon, Val Kilmer, and Alec Baldwin? Not so much

katy-perry-snl

Image Credit: Dana Edelson/NBC

The word on the street about last night’s Saturday Night Live was that the show would be all about Katy Perry’s breasts. True, by “the word on the street” I really mean “something Katy Perry said earlier in the week to get people to watch.” But a heavage-heavy show wouldn’t have been a surprising scenario. After all, the last time the pneumatic hit machine appeared on SNL she was treated as something to be squeezed into a too-tight Elmo t-shirt rather than someone who could necessarily be trusted to bring the funny.

READ FULL STORY »

Nov 21 2011 10:40 AM ET

'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part I': A hater's guide

twilight-eclipse-hater

The last couple of weeks have been worrying ones for someone who has been tasked with writing a “Hater’s Guide” to each Twilight movie but who remains open to the possibility that one day the vampire franchise might actually produce a decent film. After all, if an infinite number of monkeys given an infinite amount of time can write the works of Shakespeare, then it would surely take just one chimpanzee a few weeks to write a film better than, say, 2008′s thunderingly dull series opener Twilight or 2009′s  The Twilight Saga: New Moon which, to the best of my recollection, consists entirely of Kristen Stewart’s heroine Bella looking out the window and watching the seasons change. In real time. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 18 2011 06:15 PM ET

'The Human Centipede' inspires children's poem, cute-as-a-button t-shirt design

From South Park parody to musical adaptation to Funny or Die sketch to sock monkey to foot tattoo, it has long been clear that the NSFW Human Centipede torture porn franchise really is the gift that keeps on giving. But we never expected Tom Six’s deranged horror movies to gift us the quite delightful, kiddie-friendly t-shirt design you can see on the left.

The illustration comes from the Threadless website, where it is accompanied by a children’s poem about a “centipede human” who was always in a hurry — “He was late for his work, and late for his lunch/He was late for supper, and late for Sunday brunch” — until one day he decided to watch the Human Centipede and (spoiler alert!) died from a heart attack.

Which is sad — but, in the world of the Human Centipede, probably qualifies as a happy ending.

Read more:
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence): Review
‘Human Centipede 2′ director and star on their controversial sequel: ‘It’s NOT a Jennifer Aniston movie!’

Advertisement

TV Recaps

Powered by WordPress.com VIP