Leatherface, the eighth entry in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Cinematic Universe, finally hits theaters this weekend — which means it’s time to refresh our memories on the misadventures of our favorite chain-saw-wielding super-killer. While Leatherface has stayed mostly on the back roads of Texas since he first picked up a chain saw back in 1974, his story has had more twists and turns than an escape route out of the Sawyer family basement.
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This interview contains spoilers for the series finale of Justified.
Boyd Crowder lives! Walton Goggins’s Kentucky-fried criminal was supposed to die in Justified’s pilot, but producers changed their minds after they felt the chemistry between Goggins and Timothy Olyphant, Boyd’s bromantic nemesis, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. Like Wile E. Coyote, Boyd cheated death for six seasons and shockingly survived the series finale, where he is last seen as a reborn-again prison preacher getting a teary-eyed visit from his old coal-mining cohort, Raylan.
The 80s were a great time to be a kid. High-concept comedies and sci-fi movies, loud, parent-maddening music, classic video games and cable TV. Compared to other decades, kids’ entertainment was unabashedly childish, insane, colorful, loud and ridiculous. Now that plopping your kids in front of the TV for hours on end while you do something else is sort of frowned upon, children’s entertainment has been forced to appeal, with widely varying success, to parents as well as kids, spawning a tiny amount of the best entertainment in the industry (Pixar, I’m looking at you) and a truckload of the very worst (insert your favorite squeakuel here).
The New York Times put together a really cool interactive map of the top Netflix rentals by zip code for 12 U.S. metropolitan areas. Rachel Getting Married and Milk are huge in South Brooklyn and much of Seattle, for example. After you look up your own zip code, it’s fun to look up the other zip codes you’ve lived in in the past, and the zip codes of your friends in other cities.
Every festival has at least one movie that contains a shocking scene that critics can’t help but gossip about. (Memory lane: In 2010, Sundancers were traumatized by Jessica Alba’s* head being crushed by Casey Affleck in The Killer Inside Me, while 2009 saw Cannes attendees suffering PTSD after Willem Dafoe’s penile trauma in Antichrist.) And at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the prize winner for Most Hysterical Audience-Baiting Stunt goes to the Matthew McConaughey psycho flick Killer Joe, in which 76-year-old Exorcist director William Friedkin stages a spectacularly demeaning sequence that combines oral sex and fried chicken.
As a woman who came of age in the time of extremely shitty merch — gigantic Christina Aguilera T-shirts that just said, like, “Christina Aguilera!” in Times New Roman; the occasional album cover blown up awkwardly into a dorm-room poster — the idea that merch is now “good” and even “cool to wear in public” was something I struggled to accept for a long time. Putting on a Justin Bieber Purpose Tour T-Shirt that read “PURPOSE TOUR” in a perversion of the Metallica font and heading into the office felt like a sartorial decision I would come to regret in my dying moments.
Despite the ardent efforts of nature conservancy activists to rebrand them as the gentle giants of the sea, moviegoers have long been convinced that sharks are ruthless killing machines without a shred of honor or mercy. The cinematic imagination has long feared these toothy rulers of the briny deep, their bloodlust fueling Steven Spielberg’s proto-blockbuster Jaws as well as the dozens upon dozens of imitators that would offer their own tweaks on the formula to varying degrees of success.
Kevin Hart (left) and Bryan Cranston in The Upside In the odd-couple dramedy The Upside, Bryan Cranston portrays Phillip, a quadriplegic billionaire and grieving widower who has lost the use of his limbs — along with the will to live — in a freak paragliding accident. Kevin Hart plays his startlingly underqualified caretaker, Dell: a paroled convict/deadbeat dad with whom the rich man enters into the unlikeliest of bromances.