Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Reality is Statham Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Troy Patterson, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Jason Statham in The Mechanic and the satirical Onion News Network on IFC. For the final segment, Dana...
2 Feb 201136min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, All Hail Hailee Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the 2011 Oscar nominations with Slate Brow Beat writer Nina Shen Rastogi, IFC’s new sketch comedy Portlandia with Slat...
26 Jan 201137min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Entering the Age of Ophiuchus Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Gwyneth Paltrow in Country Strong and the recent kerfuffle over the shifting signs of the zodiac. Th...
19 Jan 201138min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, “Rags to Riches… And Back Again?” Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss PBS’s new upstairs-downstairs drama Downton Abbey, the controversy over NewSouth Books’ ...
12 Jan 201138min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Congratulations: Your Marriage is Probably Doomed Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine, the year 2010 in film, and Google’s new Ngram d...
5 Jan 201140min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Phoning It In Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss Sofia Coppola's latest film Somewhere with film critic Dan Kois. Plus the best TV shows of 2010 and th...
29 Dec 201043min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest: WE'RE NOT SCREAMING AT YOU Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the Coen brothers’ film True Grit. They’re joined by Slate’s political reporter Christopher Beam to d...
22 Dec 201038min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Swarm of Humbugs Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss director Tom Hooper’s film The King’s Speech and NBC sitcom Community. They’re joined by Slate’s Dani...
15 Dec 201043min
