Film and Television

Cops: Philip Seymour Hoffman Dead in Apparent Drug Overdose

Alibi Pierce — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:08:05 +0000

Well this is some sad fucking news for any movie lover: According to reports in The Wall Street Journal and NY Post, police have stated that Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead this afternoon in ...

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What Happened to the Stop Button?

Alibi Pierce — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:16:00 +0000

The stop button has disappeared. Once ubiquitous, these buttons with the solitary but powerful impressed square were seen on every device from the Walkman to DVD players. If a device played media, it had a ...

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The Melancholy of “Fifth” State of the Union Addresses

Alibi Pierce — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 01:13:29 +0000

With what seems like 99% of the nation in the throes of yet another arctic blast, and the resulting ice and snow blasting a sizable chunk of that 99%, it’s only fitting that 100% of ...

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Irvine Welsh and Calvin Harris Working on New HBO Series

Alibi Pierce — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:02:35 +0000

Deadline Hollywood reports that Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and fellow Scottish countryman Calvin Harris have teamed up with Jay-Z and Will Smith to create a half-hour HBO comedy entitled Higher. While this–at first glance–may appear ...

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True Detective

Alibi Pierce — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:48:43 +0000

Late last night, Slate’s television critic, Willa Paskin, published a review of HBO’s True Detective that confirms exactly what we’ve known all along: The show is going to be AWESOME. HBO seems to have lost ...

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