Jason Tabrys

Patton Oswalt On His New Comedy Special ‘We All Scream’ And His Issues With ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

It’s hard to limit yourself to just one topic when talking with stand-up comic, actor, and pop culture oracle Patton Oswalt, and so a conversation initially focused on his fantastically smart and silly new Netflix special, We All Scream (which you…

Jon Hamm On Making A ‘Fletch’ For The 21st Century

That I didn’t greet Confess, Fletch star Jon Hamm with a far too informal, “you did it, you brilliant maniac, you actually did it!” when he logged onto our recent Zoom call is, I think, a personal triumph of restraint. For 30+ years Hollywood has…

Talking With Rafe Spall About ‘Trying,’ TVs Most Heartfelt Comedy

In Trying, Rafe Spall (The Big Short, Black Mirror, and the upcoming western The English) is one half of a young London couple trying to stay together through the slow rolling process of starting a family through adoption. It is funny and nuanced…

The Story Of The Original Naked Sly Stallone ‘Demolition Man’ Prop Involves Decapitation And Penis Theft

When you walk into an antique store you hope to be surprised by some random treasure you didn’t know you needed. You do not expect to see a naked Sylvester Stallone kneeling on the ground tied to a dolly. And yet, that’s exactly what one woman found…

A Lovely Chat With Bill Nye About The End Of The World

“Was I just too cynical for Bill Nye?” The thought ran through my head after wrapping a lengthy conversation with the beloved TV science educator who radiates can-do and faith in the human race to get out of its own way, a view I do not share and…

Danny DeVito On Playing Satan In FXX’s ‘Little Demon,’ And His Killer Music Video Moves

There really are endless things you could talk with Danny DeVito about, considering the man has been a TV legend, a big screen star, director, mega-producer, and honorary member of One Direction. So how did we wind up talking about snakes with arms,…

Simon Pegg Is Getting Serious For ‘The Undeclared War’

Simon Pegg‘s new series, The Undeclared War, is terrifying. Not in a “zombies, rural weirdos, or aliens eating, attacking, or replacing us” kind of way. More in a tiptoe toward World War III or, at the very least, utterly disrupt vital services…

Antoine Fuqua On The Differences Between ‘Winning Time’ And His Lakers Docuseries, ‘Legacy’

There are certain things you just can’t help staring at: sunsets, puppies, Twitter, and the LA Lakers, for instance. There is something intrinsically compelling about the purple and gold with all of their wins, losses, tragedies, and spectacles.…

Abbi Jacobson On Expanding The World And Reach Of ‘A League Of Their Own’

In his new book, The Church Of Baseball, writer/director Ron Shelton talks about the making of Bull Durham and says, “The biggest mistake a sports movie can make is to have too much sports in it.” He would know, of course, helming films like Durham,…

Chris Gethard Talks To Us About New Jersey Food And Only New Jersey Food

These days, Chris Gethard is practically a media brand unto himself. Former host of the wildly inventive Chris Gethard Show, he’s also a stand-up comic (currently playing a residency in Edinburgh, Scotland until August 28), the host of the very…

Chris Sale’s Bike Accident Pretty Much Ends The Red Sox Season

Things haven’t exactly gone according to plan for Boston Red Sox ace and noted retro jersey hater Chris Sale. An uneven 2019 was followed by a lost 2020 season thanks to Tommy John surgery. 2021 marked a return to the mound at midseason and to his…

Tenacious D On Their Legendary Climb And Faking It Till They Made It

“Fake it till you make it” is an oft-used phrase, but it was also an operating philosophy for Tenacious D. “We were presenting ourselves as the greatest band on earth, but we were also a total catastrophe,” Jack Black tells us, recounting how he and…

The HBO Max Shows We’re Most Worried About

As you have no doubt read, things are changing at HBO Max. Already, we’ve seen the cancelation of Batgirl, a Scoob sequel, and the removal of a half-dozen originals from the service (among them Seth Rogen’s American Pickle and the Anne…

Can Late Night TV Survive The Loss Of Some Of Its Most Interesting Voices?

The late night TV desk, like the cockroach, will seemingly never die. Some hosts have tried to escape the desk, but it never seems to work out. Just ask Conan O’Brien, Desus, Mero, and now Samantha Bee, all hosts of late night shows that pushed…

Late Night Will Lose One Of Its Best With ‘Full Frontal With Samantha Bee’ Cancellation

It’s possible we’ve all clung to our late-night infotainment shows a little tighter than we should have across these last few years of nightmare fuel and eroding norms, but can you blame us? The mainstream media has often seemed unable or unwilling…

CC Sabathia On Finding The Next Jeter And Going Back To The ‘Clubhouse’ For MLB Network

The label “alternative broadcasts” implies regular broadcasts serve as more straight-laced affairs where the conversation is focused 100 percent on the field of play. It’s largely (and unfortunately) true, but experiences like MLB Network’s Clubhouse…

‘The Captain’ Director Randy Wilkins Discusses Deconstructing Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter was a model of consistency and stoicism during his playing days, someone who almost perfectly managed the intense media scrutiny that comes with playing in New York, robbing distractions of air before they could takeover the narrative and…

Ranking The Best MCU Style Icons

What should a superhero look like? It’s a question plenty of franchises have asked over the years. From the early, uniformed suits of teams like the X-Men and The Fantastic Four to the recognizable emblems adorning the spandex of Superman and Batman…

Sorry, The Ecto Cooler On ‘The Bear’ Isn’t The Real Deal

If you’ve seen FX’s The Bear, you know that one of the funniest moments comes in episode 4 when Jeremy Allen White’s Carm realizes that he has inadvertently dosed a bunch of kids with the potent (and kinda lovely sounding) combo of Xanax and Ecto…

David Harbour Wants You To Shut Up And Enjoy The New ‘Stranger Things’ Episodes, Dammit

David Harbour is an easy laugh and someone who keeps off the auto-pilot in an interview. That’s clear in our earlier conversations tied to season 3 and his recent ’90s music-laden confession to us about his own Vecna song. Long story short, I knew…