Morning Coffee (9/22/16)

Happy fall! Finally!

Me elsewhere: Pilot thoughts on This Is Us and The Good Place.

Hillary Clinton: My Plan for Helping America’s Poor

Joss Whedon and friends really want you to vote.

Confirmed: Trump campaign is controlling every word of prominent CNN commentator (Also, of COURSE Lewandowski's company is called Green Monster Consulting. Of course.)

!! ‘The West Wing’ Cast to Campaign for Hillary Clinton

The true cost of mass incarceration exceeds $1 trillion

This is a headline I genuinely never thought I'd see: Dalai Lama does impression of Donald Trump

I haven't seen new show Notorious yet - it premieres tonight - but I love a good bad review and this one is great.

What do with think of the new Anne of Green Gables trailer? I'm a little skeptical but it's not as bad as I feared! And I'm all in on Martin Sheen as Matthew, obviously.

I don't know why anyone's talking about Brangelina when obviously this is the only celebrity news that matters this week: Christopher Darden Finally Admits That He and Marcia Clark Were ‘More Than Just Friends’

Sad White Person movies don’t get much better than Manchester by the Sea

Morning Coffee (6/7/13)

Happy Friday!

BABY MOOSE RESCUE

BUNNIES.

24 TV Shows To Be Excited About This Summer

The Fairy-Tale Story Of An “Avengers” Extra Who Became Joss Whedon’s Big New Star

If Disney Movies Had Honest Titles

Cronut scalpers??

Fascinating: 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other

Here's an interesting graphic of top-rated HBO seasons.

Cabin in the Woods Gag Reel

This suffers from a distinct lack of Bradley Whitford, but is otherwise fun.


The Cabin in the Woods Behind the Scenes Exclusive Blu-ray Clip

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Morning Coffee (9/12/12)

Hey Castle fans, check out some pictures from the season premiere.

Lionsgate will distribute Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing.

Here's Taylor Swift's new song, for Stand Up to Cancer.

The Weatherman Is Not a Moron

The saga of Hollande's personal life is pretty fascinating.

CBS will be shifting its Sunday schedule to accommodate football.

A Civil War shipwreck washed up in Alabama.

Morning Coffee (5/17/12)

Last day of upfronts!

6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

USA Network is doing a bunch more "Social TV" integrations this summer.

Here's an interesting analysis of YA covers.

Joss Whedon picks favorites.

Todd VanDerWerff's schedule analyses are really fun to read. (No, really.) Here's CBS.

Barack Obama: The first everything president.

Well played, Marvel.

Last night I saw the best set of red carpet interviews I've ever seen: at Marvel.com's livestream of the The Avengers premiere. Before last night, I didn't really even care about the movie. Because of Joss, and because it has some actors I've liked in other things, I figured I'd Netflix it eventually, but I wasn't all that interested. But one of my good friends is really into it, so I figured I'd put on the livestream to keep him company while I did stuff around the house last night. (Okay, the seemingly-unfounded rumor that Nathan Fillion would show up didn't hurt.) And you know what? It completely converted me. The hosts asked interesting, relevant questions. They got witty, well-thought-out replies. And now I really want to see the movie. I watch a lot of red carpet interviews of various sorts, and they have never before made me eager to consume a product I didn't care about before. That is how you have your hosts behave, and that is how you promote a movie. Good job, all.

Morning Coffee (4/12/12)

Attention, West Wing fans! Bradley Whitford will be on Live! with Kelly on ABC sometime next hour (9-10 Eastern). I'll try to get the clip posted here tonight.

Speaking of, here's a fun Whitford interview. Yes, Cabin in the Woods comes out tomorrow. Before I remembered that, I was a little confused about why all this was happening.

And while we're on the interview subject, here's a great Q&A with Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs of Community.

Beautiful Creatures update: Ethan Wate has been recast for scheduling reasons.

Trying to figure out the current ebook legal stuff? Maureen Johnson explains all.

New Trailer: The Cabin in the Woods

We have a new trailer, and we still don't see Bradley Whitford's face, but we definitely hear his voice, and maybe see his hand and/or some of his back. Progress?



I have to go see this movie - Joss Whedon and Bradley Whitford! - but it's going to scare me so much.

Morning Coffee (2/23/12)

Good morning! I have a sore throat and a cough. Blech. So far my major decision of the morning has been to send Bridesmaids back to Netflix, since I know I will not actually convince myself to watch it any time soon.

Ooh! Castle ebooks!

Here's a thoroughly delightful story: Mark Feuerstein is filming a movie. In New Hampshire. Written by Joss Whedon.

Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden movie now has Lizzie Bennet and Coach Taylor. That's a team that could do pretty much anything, I think.

Downton Abbey trading cards!

The Weirdest Unsolved Mysteries of World War II

Today in "Writers I Can't Stop Reading Even Though Their Books Infuriate Me Are Now Writing YA, A Continuing Series:" Philippa Gregory.

Interesting reads on the Rihanna/Chris Brown situation: Vulture and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

They keep releasing photos from The Cabin in the Woods that don't have Bradley Whitford in them. Priorities, people!

Much Ado about Joss & Other Movie Links

What if Joss Whedon secretly got a bunch of your favorite actors to film a Shakespearean adaptation at his house? Yeah, that happened. (And now there's another movie, too> Does the man ever sleep?)

Finally! A darker-skinneed Heathcliff.

Get excited: Magic Mike, a.k.a. "the Matt Bomer stripper movie," is coming out June 29.

Moby Dick in space? I have no idea what to make of that.

A retrospective of film versions of Elizabeth I

Here's a new set of Hunger Games posters to excite/enrage you.