Culture Beast: ‘Man of Steel’ Falls Flat

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1 FILM 'Man of Steel' Falls Flat The Superman blockbuster Man of Steel, out today, is a monotonous CGI extravaganza devoid of any humanity. Plus, who the hell is Henry Cavill? Read it at The Daily Beast

2 TELEVISION Emmy Awards' Dark Horse Nominee If you didn't watch BBC America's clone drama Orphan Black, you missed one of the year's best dramatic performances. Jace Lacob on why Tatiana Maslany deserves an Emmy nod. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 TELEVISION 'True Blood' Premiere: Is Sex the Only Reason We're Still Watching? The show is crazier than ever and sexier than ever. That may be all that matters, says Kevin Fallon. Read it at The Daily Beast Right now it's a fight against the separation and constant dumbing down of culture, and I'm standing in the middle of it. ” READ IT NOW › 5 FILM You'll Never Guess What They Wrote Tarantino wrote It's Pat? Whedon worked on Waterworld? The unlikely film credits of Hollywood's biggest screenwriters. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 FILM 'The Bling Ring' Case Revealed The Daily Beast perused all 724 pages of grand-jury testimony from stars apparently targeted by The Bling Ring, including Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. Here's what happened—in their words. Read it at The Daily Beast Extreme Photoshopping Best of the Tonys Red Carpet Best Celebrity Twitter Pictures Half-Hawks Take Over Hollywood In response to 'Game of Thrones': Will the HBO Series Catch Up to George R.R. Martin's Books?: Unfortunately, I think there is little chance that GRRM will finish the 7th book before the show catches up. The show runners will have to start purely inventing dialogue and situations based on limited information from Mr. Martin. Granted, they could throw him a bone and let him write two episodes of a season or seasons based on books he hasn't finished yet. But that would also slow down the process of writing the books. — GeekFurious In response to Meet John Oliver, Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' Replacement: Jon Stewart is brilliant, but this is the problem when a guy hosts a show for this long and then leaves, if even for a short time: people don't give the new guy any kind of fair shot. Oliver hasn't been bad, but people are like, "Eh, he's not as good as Stewart." Stewart's had 14 years to perfect everything he did as host. Oliver has hosted the show for THREE DAYS. He'll get better. Give him a chance. — miss_scarlet

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