Bill Hanstock

...and she really, really loves that horse.

If there’s one thing you can count on with this summer’s superhero movies, it’s that the villain will have a truly convoluted plan that makes no sense. In that respect, Oscar Isaac’s titular villain in X-Men: Apocalypse is no different than, say, Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: I couldn’t ... More »

Alfred Pennyworth may be Bruce Wayne's forever-loyal butler and best friend, but Jeremy Irons is not Alfred Pennyworth. Irons, one of the great actors of the last 40 years (remember that time he played twin gynecologists in David Cronenberg's lugubrious Dead Ringers?), and one of the few things we liked ... More »

Puzzled by the scarcity of new Spider-Man merchandise tied to "Captain America: Civil War"? Don't worry, there's plenty on the way.

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Morley Safer, reporter and correspondent for CBS News, best known for his tenure on 60 Minutes.

Safer and the Muppets crossed paths a few times, most notably in 1979 when he interviewed the Muppet performers (and the Muppets) on the set of The Muppet Show.  The 60 Minutes segment is unsurprisingly brilliant, and is absolutely worth a re-watch.

According to the Muppet Wiki, Morley Safer also made a brief appearance in the special, Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music to help honor the Sesame Street composer who had recently passed away.

Thanks to Morley for helping to promote the Muppets and document them during what may have arguably been their finest era.

Click here to help us remember Morley Safer on the ToughPigs forum!

by Joe Hennes – Joe@ToughPigs.com

Joe and Anthony Russo took an unconventional path toward their current roles as Marvel Studios' directorial kingpins. They didn't make their bones doing action movies — prior to doing Captain America: The Winter Soldier, they were best known for television comedy. One of their achievements in that realm was collectively ... More »

We have a new FAT comp! Mild in the Streets: Fat Music Unplugged will be released on July 1st. This is a collection of songs from punk bands and singers who trade in their blaring amps and distortion pedals for acoustic guitars and minimalist arrangements. Jammed with 16 soulful songs, including 5 previously unreleased, this comp is a great listen front to back, and just what we need to get the day rolling. Capped by a bonus track of a full symphony recording of NOFX’s “The Decline,” this new comp is a unique must-have. Check out the tracklist here. And a big thanks to all the Fat Record Store fans who appear on the cover! Find your face and tell your friends, you’re on the cover of a FAT record!

In a perfect world, Kristen Stewart would be as beloved for her acting talent and her no-bullshit approach to celebrity as Jennifer Lawrence is. Take, for instance, a selection of quotes from K. Stew's recent Variety profile about why she dropped out of a Snow White sequel. "I read a few ... More »

A baseball fan and video editor named Mark Evans took what was already wonderful — Bartolo Colon‘s improbable home run over the weekend — and made it absolutely fantastic. How? He spliced footage of the dinger into the final baseball scene of “The Natural” and elevated both the dinger and the movie. Some mistakes you never […]

Prepare to feel power drunk: At this year's Kentucky Derby, NBC Sports reporter Johnny Weir will don a brooch that gallops and lights up at your command. According to The Verge, the brooch will get hot to trot whenever people tweet the hashtag #WatchMeNeighNeigh, a campaign that is actually quite ... More »

Does Jon Hamm ever say no to things? Because here he is, midway through the Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie trailer, cheesing like this is the first time he's ever made a cameo in a mid-budget comedy. That comedy is the revival of the long-running BBC series of the same name, ... More »

Netflix? Over it. Hulu? Done. Amazon Prime Video? You must be kidding. The internet's hottest streaming service is FilmStruck, a collaboration by Turner Classic Movies and the Criterion Collection, which will specialize in indie, foreign, art-house, and cult fare. The site's library will sample from the collections of Janus Films, ... More »

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As if you needed another reason to watch Key and Peele's upcoming kitten-gangster film Keanu, the duo just released a new trailer that only features felines...and a bit of CGI. They are cute. They are cuddly. They are fashionable. And come April 29, you can witness the insane levels of ... More »

Panel from Batman and Robin Eternal #9 (February 2016), story by James Tynion IV and Scott Snyder, script by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, pencils and inks by Roge Antonio, colors by Allen Passalaqua, letters by Saida Temofonte

At least he's finally being honest about it:

Bernie Sanders on Monday told NBC's Chuck Todd that he ran as a Democrat to get more media coverage.

During a town hall-style event in Columbus, Ohio, the independent Vermont senator said, "In terms of media coverage, you have to run within the Democratic Party." He then took a dig at MNSBC, telling Todd, the network "would not have me on his program" if he ran as an independent.

Money also played a role in his decision to run as a Democrat, Sanders added.

"To run as an independent, you need — you could be a billionaire," he said. "If you're a billionaire, you can do that. I'm not a billionaire. So the structure of American politics today is such that I thought the right ethic was to run within the Democratic Party."

The right ethic? Okay.

As I've noted many times in this space, Sanders chose to run as a Democrat because if he ran as an Independent, he would not have had access to the platform and infrastructure and funding provided by the Democratic Party. He would not be on the stage at debates.

And yet even as he exploits the Party's resources, he refuses to do Democratic fundraising for down ticket races, despite the fact that his "revolution" is totally dependent on having a Democratically-controlled Congress.

Which is to say nothing of his campaign's indifference to how important the Democratic Party is to progressives in states with the least progressive state governments.

Sanders is running as a Democrat against the Democratic Party. That has been evident for quite some time. I guess I'm glad he admits it, but fucking hell what an aggressively indecent thing to do.

Charlie Kaufman has written about writing and written about Charlie Kaufman. He's made films about the creative process and the creative process within that creative process within the process of being creative. He likes puppets and miniatures and re-creations and wormholes and depression. So if you're into that, watch this ... More »

When we think of Downton Abbey, we think poshness and proper five-course meal etiquette, sipping tea and delighting in the barbed bon mots of the Dowager Countess. But let’s not kid ourselves: In the world that Julian Fellowes built over six seasons, things often got nasty. And when they did, ... More »

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In the decade since Mike Judge's Idiocracy was released, a lot of very smart people on the internet have taken to joking that the movie was actually a documentary. Now the movie's co-writer, Etan Cohen, agrees. In a series of tweets posted Wednesday, Cohen signed on to the idea that ... More »

“it’s like thanksgiving in your alveoli” when you tuck into our chunky chicken e-chili

NBC in-development legal drama Miranda's Rights has gotten one step closer to becoming the first show on television to be called Miranda's Rights: Deadline reports that Rebecca Breeds (The Originals) has been cast in the title role of Miranda Coale, a lawyer whose first name is the same as the ... More »

It’s hard out here for Lady Edith Crawley. Over the past six seasons of Downton Abbey, she’s faced an unusually high number of heartbreaks and obstacles for a woman of aristocratic means, despite her genuinely good heart and amiable personality. It’s become a well-worn pattern by now: Just as she’s about ... More »

Evidence shows that Meryl Streep is great at everything, but in the upcoming film Florence Foster Jenkins, can Streep be great at being awful? The first trailer is here for the biopic of the world's worst opera singer, who didn't know she was the world's worst opera singer. Meryl Streep ... More »

Best Bars in America is a funny and well-liked show on the Esquire Network that features hosts Sean Patton and Jay Larson traveling around our fine country to, you guessed it, explore the best available bar offerings in America. Throughout the two seasons, the duo would banter, drink, and be ... More »

The pilot for the musical drama Vinyl is one of Martin Scorsese’s best films, an explosion of amplifier feedback, nose candy, wide-lapeled shirts, and borderline chaos; the next four episodes are almost as good, and on the basis of the first half-season, it already feels like the first new must-see series of 2016. It’s ... More »

Crown-wearing Archie Comics character Jughead Jones has traditionally been more into burgers than romance, and a new comic is about to casually reveal that he is, in fact, asexual. In other words, he's a person who isn't sexually attracted to other people — a kind of sexual identity that's rarely ... More »