0 comments by Liam McGuire on 10/5/2015
Almost instantly, I was hooked on HBO’s The Leftovers. The show’s premise was fascinating. What happened if two percent of the population had disappeared, all at the same time, due to an unexplained event? The approach was unique. It dealt solely with the remaining affected people and the pain and suffering of the characters, instead […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
Last Friday, Gawker posted an article about Saturday Night Live fans on Instagram upset with the show having Miley Cyrus as host and musical guest. For long-time fans of the show, this was no surprise since people have been posting comments like, “This is why I don’t watch SNL anymore,” for years. Hell, people probably […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 10/3/2015
If we get a better movie than The Martian in theaters between now and December (or the first couple weeks in January, since that’s when a lot of Oscar contenders get a wide release), it’s going to be a damn good year for movies. Not only is it simply fulfilling for a movie to live […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 10/2/2015
Saturday Night Live returns for its 41st season this Saturday and after several straight summers of cast shakeups, things were relatively quiet after the 40th season ended in May. Every cast member from last season will return for season 41 and only one new cast member, stand-up comedian Jon Rudnitsky, will join them. The lack […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 10/1/2015
One year ago, the Serial podcast debuted and quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Over the course of 12 episodes that ran over 13 weeks to the end of the year, the show (a spinoff of This American Life) which investigated the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and whether or not Adnan Syed was wrongly […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/30/2015
Eventually, Leonardo DiCaprio is going to win a Best Actor Academy Award. His role in The Revenant might be the one that finally gets him that gold statue. Obviously, we haven’t seen the movie (which reportedly had a very tough shoot) yet, nor the other contenders that will develop between now and the end of […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D overcame major growing pains over its first two seasons. The series was a product of the superhero hype machine, Marvel’s first attempt in bringing its cinematic universe to the small screen and it floundered quickly. The show followed Phil Coulson, his group of agents, and their missions against bad guys and threats against the world. Early episodes had some fun moments, […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
With the new fall TV season beginning, FOX gave its Monday night shows a push by debuting teasers for its limited series revival of The X-Files during Gotham and Minority Report. But a full trailer had to follow and the network made one available on Tuesday, giving us our first look at agents Fox Mulder […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/29/2015
Those expecting something different from The Daily Show for Trevor Noah’s debut may have been surprised by how similar it was to Jon Stewart’s version of the program. Those fearful of significant changes were likely reassured and comforted by something very familiar. The war on bullshit would continue. The introductory horns and the dateline were […]
0 comments by Andrew Bucholtz on 9/28/2015
Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s third-season premiere Sunday brought some significant changes for the show, following on from the cliffhangers in May’s second-season finale, but it also suggested that the core of this comedy is still very much intact. The show has largely been character-driven rather than plot-driven over its first two seasons, with much of the humor arising from bouncing […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/25/2015
“I’m setting the example. And what I’ve done is going to be puzzled over, and studied, and followed forever.” — John Doe Twenty years isn’t quite forever. Not yet. But two decades after being released in theaters on Sept. 22, 1995, Seven (or Se7en, which kind of started the annoying trend of substituting letters with […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/24/2015
Adam McKay is known for being a funny man, partnering with Will Ferrell on several films in addition to their production house Gary Sanchez Productions and the website Funny or Die. But if you saw 2010’s The Other Guys, you know McKay had quite a bit to say about 2008’s economic collapse and the role […]
0 comments by Tyler Lyon
It has been an up and down three years for the Muppets franchise. When they came back to the zeitgeist in 2011’s The Muppets, it looked like Kermit and crew were back. The film took advantage of audience nostalgia in order to earn its praise but it worked, dammit! The sequel, Muppets Most Wanted, appeared to aim […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire
With Saturday Night Live‘s 41st season just around the corner, the show has made major changes to its writing staff. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, SNL will bring on six new writers. Fran Gillespie, Sudi Green, and Will Stephen come via the improv sketch comedy group Upright Citizens Brigade. Paul Masella and Chris Belair join from […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire on 9/23/2015
It’s no secret that the upcoming DC Comics cinematic universe will carry a serious tone. Director Zack Snyder has gone on record multiple times to say the films won’t be bubblegum fodder and will transcend the superhero genre. This is why Man of Steel wasn’t called “Superman” and was perhaps the darkest version of the character on […]
