Hours of Culture: Five things you should check out this week
Monday October 13 to Sunday October 19
Marry Me- Here’s a big “No duh”: Really funny actors can elevate any sitcom premise. Look for Ken Marino (Party Down) and Casey Wilson (Happy Endings) to bring the funny in this new show about a pair dating in their 30s. The premiere is Tuesday. (nbc.com)NBC
American Sniper- Bradley Cooper is getting Oscar buzz for his role in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, adapted from the Chris Kyle book. The trailer is tense, but is there anything here that deserves an Oscar? We’ll see. (youtube.com)
Patrick Modiano- Not familiar with the French novelist who just won the 2014 Nobel Prize for literature? Trusty cultural roundup site Metafilter dug up a France Today article from a few years back that serves as a helpful introduction to the man and his work. (francetoday.com)MARTIN BUREAU/AFP / Getty Images
David Fincher’s Backseat Feminism- David Fincher, feminist? The director whose movies almost always feature a man at the centre and horrible things happening to women, like in his latest, Gone Girl, a feminist? Teo Bugbee makes the case in a thought-provoking new essay. (thedailybeast.com)STeven Forster
Drunk Hulk- Humorist Christian Dumais stopped tweeting as his big green persona last week, but he’s keeping the account alive. If you’ve never checked it out, it’s time to delve in to the hilarity. Time magazine once dubbed him one of the best fictional characters on Twitter, and rightly so. You’ll want to spend at least an hour reading five years’ worth of hilarity. (twitter.com/drunkhulk)