0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 5/22/2015
I’m going to admit right away that this probably won’t be a fair review. Usually, I tend to shrug my shoulders or roll my eyes at outrage over a cherished film being remade for modern audiences. Regardless of the remake, the original lives on. And if the update somehow manages to improve on the source […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that CBS had crews dismantling the set of the Late Show with David Letterman the morning after Letterman had his final show at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City. After all, the network has to renovate the venue in preparation for Stephen Colbert’s debut with the new […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Had Hannibal not been renewed by NBC for a third season (though another network may well have picked the show up), season two could have been a suitable series finale in which the bad guy gets away. No, that probably wouldn’t have been satisfying for the presumed main character of the show, profiler Will Graham (played […]
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 Jeremy Klumpp
Saturday Night Live just finished its 40th season on television. It is the longest running variety show in American history, and the touchstone by which almost every American sketch comedy show is now measured. After a less than stellar 39th season, a lot of pressure was placed upon Lorne Michaels, the cast, and the writers […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Foo Fighters seemed like a curious musical guest for David Letterman’s final show Wednesday night. Not to say that the 68-year-old talk show host can’t like a modern act, but you might have figured an older group — perhaps one that endured and was a recurring guest over Letterman’s 33-year run on TV — would […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire
The Flash ended its fun, action-packed first season on a high note. “Fast Enough” is centered around Barry Allen’s complicated decision: Should he go back in time and save his mother? It’s revealed Harrison Wells killed Barry’s mom because he needed Barry to become The Flash, whose running energy could create a wormhole and help […]
0 comments by Alex Kaufman on 5/20/2015
It has been about 18 months since I first got my hands on Grand Theft Auto V, a game that may or may not have been the most enjoyable and detailed experience I have ever viewed. That was on my Playstation 3, a console that is slowly being phased out due to age. Eventually, I […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
With David Letterman having his final show Wednesday night, perhaps no one among the current late-night set is more indebted to him than Seth Meyers. Jimmy Kimmel might be more outward about his admiration toward Letterman and the influence he had on his career, but Meyers is currently hosting the show that Letterman made an […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
What follows is less a television critique than a personal expression of what Mad Men has meant to me and others. It’s partly an appreciation of this show, whose first-run existence is now over, but it’s more an attempt to explain why this show can continue to be such a meaningful vehicle for conveying important […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 5/19/2015
We’re going to presume that most of you reading this have seen 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. For one thing, Marvel movies have taken over the world. Even our parents have seen most of these things. For whatever reason, maybe you missed it last summer and if you saw Avengers: Age of Ultron found yourself wondering […]
0 comments by Tyler Lyon
Last week, Harry Shearer announced that he will not be returning to The Simpsons after being with the show since its premiere in 1989. Marcia Wallace (Mrs. Krabapple) passed away last year and the show hasn’t returned to the character since. However, despite the extensive list of iconic characters voiced by Shearer, the show will move […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire
Aca-holy shit. The acapella comedy Pitch Perfect 2 was a huge success this weekend, grossing more than $70 million at the North American box office in its first week, beating out the mega-budgeted Mad Max: Fury Road. That’s a huge, but not unexpected number. The first Pitch Perfect was a box-office surprise, and gained an even bigger following when it […]
0 comments by Joe Webb
Amy Schumer’s meteoric rise in the world of comedy and television because of her blend of honesty and unapologetic sense of humor had her hosting primetime events such as the 2015 MTV Music Awards. See her unabashed comedy style when Inside Amy Schumer’s Back Door Tour touches down in Oklahoma on Saturday, May 23 at […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 5/18/2015
You could almost hear Twitter shout collectively as Don Draper closed his eyes, smiled and the famous “I’d like to buy the world a Coke” Coca-Cola ad played out the final episode of Mad Men. If you were on Twitter at the time, your timeline practically did shout with a flurry of updates. Especially after […]
