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Welcome to Your Morning Binge, the TV Addict’s daily guide to everything important going on in the world of television oday. What’s On Tonight: Monday Night Football (6:55Pm Espn) Preacher (Season 2 finale, 9Pm AMC) American Dad (Season 12 finale: 10Pm TBS) From the Department of “For the Love of God Please Don’t Cancel Your […]...

Fans have begged Deadliest Catch star Sig Hansen to stop smoking, after this week’s episode showed him suffering chest pains a year after his heart attack. Sig had to be flown out by plane after having tests when he started complaining of pains on the left side of his chest. It comes after the skipper of the Northwestern suffered a full-blown heart-attack while out at sea last season. After footage of the drama was revealed, fans took to social media to plead with Sig to give up cigarettes. One said after we posted the story: “For the love of god,...read more...

Need to catch up? Check out the previous Twin Peaks recap.

Do you think, way back when Kyle McLachlan signed on to play Twin Peaks‘ buttoned-up Agent Dale Cooper, he could’ve imagined a time when the most interesting thing he’d do in an entire episode would be a spit take?

Yeah, yeah, I know. Because it’s a David Lynchian spittake, it’s elevated to high art. The spittake has meaning that I just don’t understand. It’s a callback to Season 1, when Coop & Co. all were standing outside by the chalkboard outside. All will be revealed.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including The Originals, American Gods, Criminal Minds and Riverdale!

1 | Is The Originals‘ Hollow officially pop culture’s scariest little girl since The Ring‘s Samara?

RelatedThe Originals Renewed!

2 | Did Hawaii Five-0 just give CBS an idea, teasing a San Francisco-based spinoff? (Would Jorge Garcia’s Jerry be a part if it, maybe develop conspiracy theories about old Alcatraz inmates resurfacing?)

3 | Was Blue Bloods guest star Lauren Velez making a Dexter nod when her law...

The real reason Matt Harvey went Awol

The Matt Harvey situation keeps getting more interesting. On Sunday, he was suspended for three games after blowing off Saturday’s game. This led to a late-night visit from Mets security. Tuesday, he apologized profusely at a press conference and admitted he was out past curfew on Friday (he was actually out until 4 a.m. at 1Oak). And now comes a fun rumor that it was all over a girl. Apparently, the sight of ex-girlfriend Adriana Lima partying at the Met Gala with Julian Edelman was too much for him to take, and led to his late-night outing.

Memorial Day weekend is still weeks away, but summer blockbusters are out in full force: Marvel's crowd-pleasing oddballs come back for seconds, Captain Jack Sparrow and friends take to the waves for a fifth time, the Xenomorph gets yet another helping of terrified human-meat, King Arthur goes gritty-reboot and a big-screen Baywatch attracts a new wave of leering stares. Those in search of something a little smaller-scale have plenty to choose from too, from Cate Blanchett's high-art masterclass to a pair of docs burrowing into a pair of specific cultural phenomena.

Someone, please get me an inhaler! I'm having difficulty breathing. 

The Fosters has a deliciously bad habit of giving a person heart palpitations every week. It's stressful, Ok? It's a really stressful show to watch. 

The Fosters Season 4 Episode 20 was no exception. In fact, you'll probably find me hugging my knees, rocking back and forth, and trying to process the season finale. 

There's a lot to process. 

Callie, bless her heart, has been catching it this season. She has been making some truly awful decisions. Since she's already the poster-child for bad decision making that really has to be saying something. 

No decision has been quite as bad as the one she made by the end of the night. Callie pretended to be Tina and took off with Diamond and Diamond's pimp. That was the worst decision in existence. What even is this show?

Stef and Mike were fighting like...

*Spoiler Warning* For The Love Of God You Are Entering The Thunderdome Of Spoiler Territory** Split, the horror/thriller about a man with 23 distinct personalities (James McAvoy) preparing for the unveiling of a monstrous 24th, is officially out now and has been met with the best reviews and box office numbers of any M. Night Shyamalan movie since 2002’s Signs. But the redemption of Shyamalan... Read More...

This Uso tour has changed me. Endless thanks to all the soldiers I met in Afghanistan, Qatar and Turkey. Your sacrifice is heroism defined. pic.twitter.com/mUQ1bfP4sP - Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) December 7, 2016 Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson may have just proved that they're Captain America and Black Widow in real life. The Avengers stars took a Uso tour to meet with troops from Afghanistan, Qatar, and Turkey at the Bagram Airfield on Dec. 7, where Chris expressed his gratitude for their service by posting a heartwarming photo on his Twitter page. "Endless thanks to all the soldiers . . . Your sacrifice is heroism defined," he wrote. Later on, the two actors hosted a 20-minute Q&A with the servicemen and servicewomen, which included everything from Scarlett emotionally telling them that it was "such an incredibly touching experience" to be there to Chris joking about his size. "I am nowhere near my filming size.

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Question: I know Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has said she hasn’t watched Season 7 and therefore didn’t see how hurt Richard and Emily were after the Paris elopement. But (Spoiler Alert!) after all the therapy and healing in the revival, how could Lorelai get married without her mom present again? —Katie

Ausiello: Get with the proverbial program, Katie. This issue was put to bed last week in my wide-ranging post mortem with As-p. Towards the end of the Q&A,...

It has been a fantastic week for baseball. The Cubs won the World Series, and this quiet little show about a female pitcher in the Leagues continues to break boundaries, barriers, and hearts! 

I didn't expect much out of Pitch Season 1 Episode 6, but by the end of the episode, I was speechless. I certainly didn't expect to be sitting in the middle of my hotel room on the verge of bawling my eyes out.

This show is amazing. It's so multi-dimensional and touching. There's a reason why fans are so drawn in, and are passionate enough to trend #RenewPitch hours before the episode even aired. It moves people.

"Wear It" was probably the best episode to date. I may have said that once or twice before, but the show truly does get better with each and every episode. It's amazing how they're able to flesh out these characters and make this storyline so compelling.

*Spoiler Territory!* *For The Love Of God Run Away!* Still here? Good. Okay, so with less than a month to go before the release of the 3D Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray there’s a lot of fervor around the bevy of new special features we can expect. No doubt there will be more behind-the-scenes goodies, but the big one everyone is itching to experience is the feature-length commentary from director... Read More...

It's back.

On Tuesday, Bachelor in Paradise season 3 premiered, fulfilling all of our hopes and dreams of spending the summer watching Bachelor and Bachelorette castaways hook up with and discard each other in a steady, seamless rotation, week by week. It's a beautiful disaster and we can't look away, so for that, we thank you, ABC.

Of course, the two-hour season premiere boasted the show's signature abundance of alcohol, sloppy make-out sessions and tear-soaked confessionals, but what everyone will undoubtedly be talking about is the return of Chad Johnson, perhaps the franchise's most infamous (read: hated) character.

If you watched...

It's back. On Tuesday, Bachelor in Paradise season 3 premiered, fulfilling all of our hopes and dreams of spending the summer watching Bachelor and Bachelorette castaways hook up with and discard each other in a steady, seamless rotation, week by week. It's a beautiful disaster and we can't look away, so for that, we thank you, ABC. Of course, the two-hour season premiere boasted the show's signature abundance of alcohol, sloppy make-out sessions and tear-soaked confessionals, but what everyone will undoubtedly be talking about is the return of Chad Johnson, perhaps the franchise's most infamous (read: hated) character.If you watched...

Jenny Morrill Sep 1, 2016

Fancy watching people try to get off with each other via average cooking, awkward chat and terrible puns? Step this way...

Do you like food? Do you also like watching people failing to bond over food? Then Dinner Date is the show is for you.

I started watching Dinner Date when I was ill, and could do nothing but lie on the settee watching ITV Ovaries. Dinner Date came on and, as a regular watcher of Come Dine With Me, this got my attention. Dinner Date is Come Dine With Me if all the contestants were expected to have sex at the end. Also, Dinner Date has its own Come Dine With Me-style piss-taking narrator, in the form of ITV's Dave-Lamb-with-a-fanny Natalie Casey. What's not to love?

Here's how the show works: a man or woman, usually called Gaz or Kelli, goes to three people's houses...

Donald Trump wasted no time seizing on the Brussels terrorist attacks to promote himself, and his critics were similarly quick to denounce him for it. “For the love of God, we don’t even know how many people are dead: the story is Not Donald Trump,” tweeted MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. He was responding to Trump’s many hot takes on the tragedy that killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens. Among them was this tweet: “Do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels was. Not anymore, it is from a different world! U.S. must be vigilant and smart!

The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines may be finished and its winners crowned, but the drama surrounding the relationships - some strained, some spicy - shows no signs of dying down any time soon. People was on the scene of the Bloodlines reunion to see not only what was really going on between exes Cara Maria Sorbello and Abram Boise but also what hookups, meltdowns, blackouts and more went down behind the scenes. Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you want to avoid spoilers from Wednesday night's The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines finale and reunion.Cara Maria and Abram's...

The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines may be finished and its winners crowned, but the drama surrounding the relationships – some strained, some spicy – shows no signs of dying down any time soon.

People was on the scene of the Bloodlines reunion to see not only what was really going on between exes Cara Maria Sorbello and Abram Boise but also what hookups, meltdowns, blackouts and more went down behind the scenes.

Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you want to avoid spoilers from Wednesday night's The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines finale and reunion.

Cara Maria and Abram's Gut-Wrenching ConfrontationThe...

There is a survey floating around the internet from Sony that asks what updates feel important for future software versions of the PS4. Of the list include PS2 classics, name changes, and background customization which are all grand ole ideas, but could Sony dive deeper? We think so and came up with a list of ideas Sony should actually look into, and why a few of the items on the list should be priority.

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Accidentally Turning The PS4 On

A big difference that is so subtle you might not even realize it between the Xbox One and PS4 is a simple controller mechanic. Both controllers are capable of turning on their respective consoles via a press of the icon button in the middle. Yet a slight variation between the two is the amount of time spent pressing the button.

On the PS4 a...

In the closing moments of the next "Deutschland 83" (SundanceTV), the first German-language series to air on U.S. television, protagonist Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) orders a round of "crazy" cocktails for himself and a beautiful young woman. For all the novelty of a Cold War espionage thriller set in the bureaucratic heart of West Germany, however, the music cue that accompanies the moment is strangely familiar. Underlining the action with David Bowie's "Modern Love," released in 1983 and recently revived by Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig in "Frances Ha" (2012), the otherwise efficient, engrossing "Deutschland 83" exhibits its one notable flaw, a worrisome example of the medium's fast-approaching future, which is a recurring sense of déjà vu. Read More: "For the Love of God (or Country), Start Watching 'The Americans'" It may be no more than a fluke of timing, coming amid TV's current fever for...

Pre-credit sequence. When we left things, Jenn had just orchestrated the season's best Tribal Council, sending Kelly packing. Rodney's pissed off by the way things went down, blaming Mike for swapping the vote from Hali to Jenn, calling him "our idiot redneck." Using this as his wedge issue, Rodney lobbies Will. Rodney's frustration with Mike remains off in the future and he's only securing Will for a long-term decapitation. "Sorry I'm still here to disappoint you," Jenn tells Mike, who respects her play. "The No Collars are back in town," Jenn says, vowing to mess with things while she can. This is a mighty cocky four-person minority alliance. I'm sure eventually somebody will look at the numbers, though. There's no "me" in Salami, at least not if you spell it correctly. It's Day 20 and they have a newly caught catfish at Merica. They also have some leftover Merge...

Sleepy Hollow, Season 2, Episode 14, “Kali Yuga”

Story by Heather V. Regnier

Teleplay by Sam Chalsen & Nelson Greaves

Directed by Doug Aaronowski

Airs Mondays at 9pm (Et) on Fox

It’s interesting that “Kali Yuga” is an episode that centers so heavily on Nick Hawley and Frank Irving, because those two characters are indicative of the attention deficit disorder Sleepy Hollow has with its supporting cast. Hawley, brought in to add roguish flair and romantic interest to the show, has since drifted to the point that even the showrunner admitted they threw out their original conception of the character. And Irving, after going from an implied villain in the pilot, has been shuffled from ally to asylum to afterlife so much that it’s become wearing when the show has to give him screen time. “Kali Yuga” tries hard to give both of these characters a bit of shading, but unfortunately...

Earlier today, Universal sneaked in the full trailer for Jurassic World, 2 days early. Why, who knows? Maybe it's because it might have ruined thanksgiving. Ok, that's a bit harsh, but I'm completely underwhelmed by the trailer. Yes, yes, I know what your thinking "this asshole is shit canning a movie before he's seen it. Typical internet bastard". Which I understand. But, seriously, what has it got going for it? They stole the bubble ship from Oblivion, broke it down and gave it a new paint job. Then Chris Pratt, channeling Han Solo with that waist coat, is racing a bunch of Raptors on a motorbike. Or, are the Raptors helping him out? For the love of God, the only interaction with humans the dinosaurs should have is consuming their innards. Granted, if Jurassic Park 3 thought us anything, it's that Raptors can be bargained with. That aside though, that scene...

'I took my big ass all the way out here to Hollywood for two reasons: to play country music and to drink!'

"I took my big ass all the way out here to Hollywood for two reasons: to play country music and to drink!"

That is how Blake Shelton welcomes a crowd in Hollywood, California.

Pics: Blake! Miranda! Taylor! Inside the Academy of Country Music Awards

The Voice coach may spend a solid chunk of his year on the Universal lot in Los Angeles filming the hit NBC reality competition series, but Shelton worked overtime on Saturday night to remind the L.A. audience of his country roots.

Turns out, they didn't need much of a reminder. The cowboy boot-wearing crowd sang along through "Nobody but Me," "Ol' Red" and "Austin" with equal enthusiasm to "Neon Light," "Sure Be Cool If You Did" and "Honey Bee." And whether or not some fans had, in truth, been...

Con Etiquette

One of the vendors, dressed as Harley Quinn

We’re going to talk for a minute about convention etiquette. Apparently, we have to. By the end of the year, I will have attended a personal record number of conventions, and there are a lot of commonalities. In fact, As I write this, I am in Pittsburgh, sitting on the floor of the Monroeville Convention Center. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Some of you may be familiar with my convention tips article from earlier this year, some of you may not. There are a few things that need repeating, but stick with me until the end. Please. Let’s talk, people.

A cosplayer dressed as Raven

Don’t harass the women. I’ve said it before. It is the standing rule in every convention guidebook. It is okay to tell the cosplayers they look nice,...

By Jonathan Weichsel

The Jumpcut Cafe has long been the hangout spot for the horror crowd in Hollywood, and for very good reason. Not only does the cafe feature screenings of both popular and hard to find classic horror films, but it also showcases new films by some of the most exciting young talents working in Hollywood today. Curator Elric Kane has a very eclectic taste in movies, and is a smart programmer who reaches far into the indie horror community find the best, most cutting-edge short films possible. What follows are my favorite films of the night, in no particular order.

Far Out, directed by Phil Mucci, opened the night. Far Out is a, well, far out vampire flick that takes place during the swinging sixties. The film perfectly captures the mood and look of a space age, mod bachelor pad shindig. Far out is a fun, at times...

Celebrity Big Brother kicked off last night and was typically bonkers. Well, we wouldn't have it any other way, really, would we? The 14 famous faces that made their way into the house may have varying levels of, er, fame, but they also seem likely to keep us very entertained indeed over the next four weeks. Bring it on!

It's probably too early to really have any firm opinions about the newbies, but you can't help but have a first impression on night one, can you? So here is our ranking of the housemates from worst to best so far, which we reserve the right to change in, like, an hour...

14. Ricci Guarnaccio

Hard to be both offensive and boring in one fell swoop. Ricci seems to manage it.

13. Lauren Goodger

Oh goodie, another Towie girl. Loses points for the outfit, but at least she seems nice enough. So far.

12. James Jordan

For one thing,...

For the love of God, Just Shave.

Does this picture of a bearded Leonardo DiCaprio have you wishing for his baby-faced, clean-cut days?

Leo, 39, hosted a screening of the Netflix documentary Mission Blue on Wednesday in West Hollywood, Calif., where he posed with National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle.

Photos: Hollywood's Sexiest Shirtless Men

Slicking his hair back into a ponytail, he also gave us a look at this impressive facial hair, which as you can see in the picture below taken at his foundation's recent inaugural gala, has even infiltrated his neck.

Now let's just take a second to remember Leo in The Wolf of Wall Street, which came out on Christmas last year.

Safe to say, facial hair just isn't for everyone.

Video: Carey Mulligan Dishes on Kissing Leonardo DiCaprio

... Hey, we can't all be Bradley Cooper right?...

Talent is currently being sought for the short film “For the Love of God.” “For the Love of God” is a student film for Nyfa about two priests, one of whom confesses his reasons for leaving the church. Several roles are being cast for this unpaid production, and it will shoot in California on August 22 and 23. Auditions will be held Aug. 5 in Burbank, Calif. For more details, check out the casting notice for “For the Love of God” here, and be sure to check out the rest of our Los Angeles audition listings!

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Giving up smoking is like going on an emotional roller-coaster of pain, hatred, and despair, underpinned by only the smallest inkling of “I am doing the right thing”. You discover that nicotine is both the devil and your soulmate, and that when it comes to any form of debate, any question, any situation, about anything, the answer is always cigarettes cigarettes cigarettes Just Give Me A Cigarette For The Love Of God.

It’s not all bad though. The dizzying highs of smug self-satisfaction can take you for miles, particularly when you’re struggling up the stairs. You know that, now that you’ve stopped smoking, you’ll be able to run up those stairs faster than Usain Bolt within a few weeks. You also know that smoking is the only thing in your life preventing you from having optimum health all of the time. Right? Smoking adds belly...

This story has taken a new twist. Read what’s going on here For the love of God. This isn’t something from our weekly Ultimate Recast Reboot on the podcast. This is a legit story. Predator Is being rebooted. So, pick your jaw up off the desk…or floor and let’s see what’s going on with one of cinemas greatest monsters. Now before you explode into a million pieces, just hold this thought for a minute. Shane Black (who ironically played Hawkins in the original movie) is writing a treatment for the movie and then Fred Dekker (Monster Squad, Robocop 3) will take over for the script. Dekker hasn’t written anything since a few episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise back in 2002 and while Shane Black has quite a decent filmography behind him (Iron Man 3 being the most recent) I have very little faith in this. Yeah, yeah I hear ya!

Some interesting news has come out of the recent Fantasia Frontieres Film Market Selections story that we posted an hour or so ago. One of the announced projects was Dario Argento's The Sandman, and there have been some developments regarding it.

Fangoria is reporting that Iggy Pop and his barrage of chest veins will star in the title role of the flick.

The Sandman was scripted by David Tully (who also wrote Tobe Hooper’s upcoming Djinn) and will be presented to potential backers at the Frontières International Co-Production Market at this summer’s Fantasia film festival in Montreal.

No word yet on plot details, but stay tuned for more as it comes.

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Welcome, lords and ladies (and smallfolk) to the final edition of this year’s Game of Thrones TV Book Club, a discussion space for Thrones viewers who have also read the five books (so far) of George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series. This week, Darren Franich and Hillary Busis dive into season 4′s supersized ending, a feast of brawls and murders and missing minor characters. Check out James Hibberd’s full recap of the episode, then join us as we venture into the narrative borderlands of A Storm of Swords (and beyond) below. (You know...

Ex on the Beach might have lost fiendish Frankie last week, but the drama certainly did not go away. What with the introduction of another ex into the Jagermeister, jealousy and flanter cocktail, things are certainly getting shaken up at the villa. But in amongst the smell of fake tan and regret, we took away some vital life lessons. Read on for the educational content from this week's Ex on the Beach...

1. Sleeping on it does not always get rid of arguments.

I know, bit of a shocker, this one. But Ash and Liam were still at loggerheads the morning after Liam had dared to talk to Talitha (alright, he had been doing a bit of stirring, but still). Barely five minutes into the show and we'd had the phrase "f**king bulls**tting c**t, little bitch", as Liam fumed that Ash (and his informant Marco) are "just two little f**king bellends,...

Myriad Editions has announced the shortlist for the 2014 First Graphic Novel Competition.

The prize will be presented at an event at the British Library in association with its new Comics Unmasked exhibition.

Francesca Cassavati's Panic Attacks, Jade Sarson's For the Love of God, Marie, Jessica Martin's Elsie Harris Picture Palace, Henny Beaumont's Hole in the Heart, Robert Wells's Sack, Crack & Back (& Brain) and Wallis Eates's Mumoirs have been nominated for the award.

The biennial competition is open to previously unpublished cartoonists. Winners receive a £1,000 prize and a week-long retreat in a studio in France, as well as the opportunity to develop their work with Myriad.

"The shortlist is an amazing reflection of what's happening right now in graphic novels," said Corinne Pearlman. "Four of the works are graphic memoir and two are fiction; five are by women; three involve health issues."

2012's winner was Gareth Brookes's The Black Project.

A couple of new character posters for Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For have landed online, featuring Mickey Rourke's Marv and Jessica Alba's Nancy. The lame news is both posters use previously released images of the two characters. For the love of God, can we please see something new from Sin City: A Dame To Kill For? Even the latest trailer was pretty much the same as the first. Also, I understand people will most likely remember...

Now that the Kiss Army has gotten its due and their heavy metal heroes will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame tonight at Brooklyn's Barclays Center (along with Nirvana, Cat Stevens, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Linda Ronstadt, and Peter Gabriel), here are 10 more acts that are definitely worthy of inclusion. Some have been nominated numerous times (like Chic) and never gotten voted in, while others, as impossible as it seems, have never even made it onto the ballot. These 10 are presented in alphabetical order: Bon Jovi: Say what you will and there are just as many people vying to keep Bon Jovi out as are fighting to get them in (if not more), but after Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi is the biggest musical act to come out of New Jersey. Bon Jovi, who was on the ballot in 2012, has dominated the world for...

Every January in Las Vegas, the adult film industry hosts its own awards show – the Adult Video News awards, also known as the "porn Oscars." With the actual ceremony looming ahead Sunday, Indiewire reveals the verdicts from its informal poll of stars from the "Other Hollywood," who discuss their more publicly famous counterparts and offer their picks for the 86th annual Academy Awards. April O'Neil @undeux Nominated for: Best Three-Way Sex Scene G/G/B (in "Chance Encounters") Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio For the love of God can someone fucking please give Leonardo DiCaprio a goddam Oscar? Just give him all the Oscars. Make a point to go onstage and say, “Leonardo DiCaprio, listen. We’re sorry that for the entirety of your career we didn’t give you an award that you so wholeheartedly deserve. We’re going to make an award specifically for you where it’s not an Oscar,...

Well, here’s good/bad/unnerving news. Sex and the City creator Michael Patrick King says there may be “one chapter left to tell” in the saga of Carrie Bradshaw, Miranda Hobbes, Charlotte The Worst, and SaPUNtha Jones. What would the third cinematic foray into Sex and the City entail? Not sure, but I do think that a significant storyline featuring Stanford Blatch and Anthony Marantino, the show’s two featured (and now married) gays, is in order. Here are five suggestions we have for their story arc.

5. Charlotte is convinced she can sell her own art to idiotic gay people, and she recruits Stanford and Anthony to be her new models. She tells them to undress and seats them in giant flower pots, and just as Stanford mutters, “More like Anne Gay-ddes!” Charlotte bursts into tears. “That was supposed to be my pun!” she cries, and her “clever” business opportunity is ruined.

The actor turned one-man art installation continues his epic journey to explore the farthest edges of silliness

Question: how much would it cost to hire a skywriter to fly over La and scrawl the words: "Look We All Totally Forgive You – Now For The Love Of God Let's Say Absolutely No More About It"?

I only ask after reports from Shia Labeouf's performance art happening at a gallery in Los Angeles have pushed me over some sort of psychic pain threshold.

To be honest, despite writing barely 10 minutes ago about the antics that led the Transformers star to this place, I'm already hazy on the background to the artwork. If memory serves, I think Shia plagiarised some stuff and then plagiarised some more stuff to make some point about how all art is basically plagiarism, and all plagiarism is art, and then he hired a skywriter to write an apology,...

Much like most videogame versions of their movie counterparts, they are absolute and utter rubbish. Alien in particular has been on the receiving end of some seriously poor incarnations. But is that all about to change? Firstly lets take a look at how bad things were!!! Back in 1982 (yes we’re starting old school) Alien turned up on the Atari 2600. Possibly one of the reasons why those Atari joysticks were so chewable (c’mon, you did it too) but it was basically Pacman, but instead of Blinky and company you had the actual Aliens. Well, I’m not sure what they were, more like glorified pixelated, walking Piranha plants from Mario Bros. In 1984 Aliens arrived on the Spectrum 48K (God Bless its rubber keys!) and on the Commodore 64. While I was too poor to own it, looking at the youtube video below highlights what another disaster it was. Check out...

Today’s film is the 2007 short For the Love of God. The film is directed by Joe Tucker, who co-wrote the script with Raphael Warner, and stars Julia Davis, Ian McKellan, and Steve Coogan. Coogan is perhaps best known for his character Alan Partridge, who has appeared in numerous tv shows and movies such as The Day Today, I’m Alan Partridge, and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. He has also appeared in movies such as Hamlet 2, Night at the Museum, and The Trip. His newest feature, Philomena, opens in wide release in American theatres this weekend.

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An Emmy award, 177 episodes of employment and a place as one of the most memorable animated characters of all time - it's fair to say that Marcia Wallace had somewhat of an envious career.

Having moved to New York with just $148 in her pocket, Marcia Wallace's story is a remarkable one to say the least. While her iconic status may have been cemented by her voicing of Edna Krabappel in Matt Groening's The Simpsons, Wallace had already established herself across a number of art disciplines; including, but not limited to, Broadway, improv performance, chat show appearances, gameshows and nude performances (given in Dark of the Moon, having lost 100lbs from her previous weight of 230 pounds!).

Ultimately though, it was her Edna Krabappel that she will be best remembered for. In a career spanning over 24 years, Marcia Wallace made Edna into a essential member of The Simpsons' entourage,...

If five Oscar nominees lose two young girls in the woods, will their wailing make a sound? That's the key question of Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve's prestigious puffery about a father (Hugh Jackman) and a cop (Jake Gyllenhaal) trying to catch a kidnapper. Prisoners is a dog-whistle for Academy voters keyed to a pitch that screams, "For the love of God, nominate me for something!" It might work, except that a) it makes no sense, and b) it's not from Clint Eastwood, the only director with enough swagger to demand such schlock be taken seriously.

Our setting is a gray Pennsylvania town, the type where most of the houses are held together by cheap aluminum siding, where an ordinary man like Keller (Jackman) can teach his son to hunt in case a hurricane blows civiliz...

Since neither you, I nor anyone else believed for a nanosecond that True Blood was gonna kill off Sookie, nobody’s gonna get the vapors when they read that no, her father does not succeed in drowning her in this week’s episode, “Don’t You Feel Me?” But what may come as a surprise (not a vapors-worthy surprise, but a surprise nonetheless) is the identity of her savior.

Video | Insaaaaane New True Blood Trailer: Who’s Funeral is Sookie Attending?

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NBC has been a punching bag lately, and not without good reason. The one-time kings of network ratings have tumbled from their dominance of Must See TV Thursday to pretty much For The Love Of God Watch Us On Any Night Please TV. And while NBC's past found them bringing massive, game-changing comedies like "Seinfeld," "Cheers," and "Friends" to air, is cutting-edge drama going to define them moving forward? This year alone they defied all expectations and impressed both critics and audiences with "Hannibal," a richer than expected and very fresh take on the character. And next year, will "Believe" join its ranks? To be certain, we'll be watching because this new trailer is pretty outstanding. The show, executive produced by Alfonso Cuarón and J.J. Abrams (with Cuarón directing the pilot) centers on a girl with special powers of some kind that will fully come to fruition in seven years.

Surely by now you've seen this much-talked-about video that's reigning supreme at the top of the charts.

And, since you have, surely you've noticed the three stunning girls prancing in the background in nothing but nude-colored underwear and white sneakers. They are (in no particular order):

Emily Ratajkowski

From earlier today at Ann Demeulemeester pic.twitter.com/KQ4NerkAz7

— Emily Ratajkowski (@realemrata) June 28, 2013

Elle Evans

And Jessi M'Bengue

@shalanandpaul :) almost done guys:) thanks again for the wonderful images:) pic.twitter.com/7s6LmKyZ

— Jessi M'Bengue (@Jessimbengue) May 25, 2012

And they are exquisite. But who are they, you ask?

Here's what we can glean about the girls from their online and social media presence:

Emily is 21, a London-born Californian of Polish-Israeli background who's been modeling since the age of 14. Before "Blurred Lines" came out, she appeared in campaigns for Forever 21, Nordstrom, and various swimwear and lingerie lines.

Also, something that...

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Remember the The Following‘s pilot, when a really evil, highly intelligent man slayed several prison guards in his intricately planned scheme to break free? Remember how shocking it was when one of his spindly limbed female followers showed up and shishkebabbed her own eyeball just to ensure that a note of terror would ring in the FBI’s ear for as long as her idol was alive?

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From Meryl Streep's Iron Lady to Spitting Image and the Spice Girls, Observer writers and critics pick the films, books, art, music and TV that show Thatcher's lasting influence

Art, chosen by Laura Cumming

Treatment Room (1983)

In Richard Hamilton's installation, Thatcher administered her own harsh medicine from a video above the operating table with the viewer as helpless patient: a case of kill or cure.

Taking Stock (1984)

Hans Haacke portrayed Thatcher enthroned, nose in the air like a gun-dog, surrounded by images of Queen Victoria, the Saatchi brothers and, ominously, Pandora. Caused national furore.

In the Sleep of Reason (1982)

Mark Wallinger edited Thatcher's 1982 Falklands speech from blink to blink, fading to black in between, emphasising her solipsistic tendency to close her eyes when speaking as if nobody else existed.

The Battle of Orgreave (2001)

Jeremy Deller's restaged the worst conflict of the miners' strike from multiple viewpoints, uniting...