0 comments by Tim Livingston on 8/30/2016
Gene Wilder, best known for his role as title character in the 1971 hit Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, passed away Monday at the age of 83 due to complications from Alzheimer’s Disease. Throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s, Wilder was a comedic force, mainly in movies directed by the great Mel Brooks. During the later […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 5/21/2015
It’s 1 a.m., just after David Letterman said his final good-bye to television some 33 years after he began his run on the late-night talk show circuit and sadness is prevalent. I’m most definitely a Generation X member, someone who was a child when Letterman’s star was shining the brightest, when he was on after […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 3/2/2015
Well, Netflix did it again. They took one of their most popular shows, House of Cards, and premiered its newest season on a Friday, giving viewers the option of watching the entire season over the weekend so they could take it to the water cooler on Monday. (GChat, water cooler, whatever.) Season 3 of the series finally […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 2/27/2015
The beginnings of the Bloguin empire began back in 2006 with Awful Announcing, which is probably the site that allowed you, the reader of this blog, to realize that Bloguin did more than take aim at the stupid things media types would say. That being said, Awful Announcing does an extremely good job at taking aim […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 12/23/2014
As I sit here typing this, my brother and my best friend are playing Street Fighter on a TV hanging on my wall. I have my iPhone and my iPad charging next to my bed. I’m typing this on my computer. You’re reading this on your computer, smartphone or tablet. In a world filled with […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 12/16/2014
Okay, so Sunday marked the end of Aaron Sorkin’s ode to television news journalism, The Newsroom. I’m trying to figure out what exactly it was that I watched for three seasons. I worked in television for four years. I loved Sports Night, The West Wing and The Social Network. I’m right in Sorkin’s wheelhouse. I […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 12/11/2014
The project was ambitious, but the cynics called it pretentious. A documentary about the making of an album? And they’re gonna travel all across the country and record each song in a different studio in every city? What’s the point? One thing that is apparent with Dave Grohl is that he has a deep appreciation […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 12/10/2014
(Obviously, spoilers ahead.) One thing that quickly went away in the canon of television was a twist ending. In lieu of tying up loose ends and putting a bow on a series, television dramas decided to go with ambiguous endings that seemed like copouts to fans of the show. The ending to The Sopranos was the […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 12/1/2014
In the annals of movie history, there are only a handful that can claim to be the greatest Christmas movie of all time. It’s A Wonderful Life. Die Hard. A Christmas Story. A Charlie Brown Christmas. Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever. Okay, maybe not that one. But to me, there’s only one. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Today, […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 11/22/2014
While the overriding themes of The Hunger Games novels always centered on the politics set in a dystopian future supposedly signaling the path we’ve laid out for ourselves, the films have leaned more on the unintended consequences that shape the world the series is set in. The disappointment from those repercussions always seems to surprise everyone integral to […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 11/11/2014
Using puppets, a Scottish unicorn, a breakdancing Abraham Lincoln and a Salmon Cannon, the first year of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight has been a tremendous success for HBO. Averaging about one million viewers per episode, the 24-episode run became one of the network’s biggest non-Game of Thrones highlights and has catapulted John Oliver into the […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 9/18/2014
From our fearless editor Ben Koo a few days ago: “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is quickly becoming like The Wire as those who watch believe it’s the best show on TV and those who have never seen it think you’re crazy and will probably never check it out.” Last summer, Jon Stewart took […]
