0 comments by Liam McGuire on 4/13/2015
When the cast was named for the upcoming Suicide Squad movie, the list featured a bevy of heavy hitters playing iconic characters: Jared Leto as the Joker, Will Smith as Deadshot and Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. It was clear DC was trying to use big names to establish their own rag-tag group of outcasts to rival the success […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Marvel was already dominating a large chunk of the weekend’s pop culture conversation with the debut of Daredevil on Netflix. The studio apparently thought it was a great time to keep that momentum going by releasing the first full trailer for Ant-Man. As should be expected, there’s a lot more cool stuff in this new […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
These recaps are the hardest to write when Saturday Night Live has a middle-of-the-road episode. If it’s a great show from start to finish, then I end up with too much to write about, and if it’s terrible then I can make wisecracks about it for an entire post. Those episodes that are uneventful, one […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/10/2015
As she reaches the later stages of her music career, it’s probably natural for Madonna to consider what she might do next. Would anyone have guessed that stand-up comedy was one of those possible endeavors? OK, maybe that’s not the blond ambition she’s harboring. (Oooh, get it? That was pretty good. I should use that […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are in high demand. On the heels of writing and directing the massively successful The Lego Movie and two great installments of the 21 Jump Street cinematic reboot, in addition to executive-producing Fox’s The Last Man on Earth series, Lord and Miller have had their name attached to many big projects, […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/9/2015
Finally. After all the speculation, all the rumors, all the memes about who would star in season two of HBO’s True Detective, we have a teaser trailer to confirm the reported casting and the return of one of 2014’s best TV shows. There’s Rachel McAdams as one of the detectives in the storyline. Series creator […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/8/2015
With the fifth season of Louie set to premiere Thursday night (April 8) on FX, it’s probably long overdue for the show’s opening credits sequence to be parodied. Maybe there have been other parodies, and I just haven’t seen them. Or maybe combining Star Wars and Louie is much more likely to attract my attention. […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Whether or not Showtime intends to follow through with plans for a revival of 1990s TV series Twin Peaks hasn’t yet been announced. But in the view of former actors from the show which ran on ABC from 1990 to 1991, it’s just not Twin Peaks without series co-creator and director David Lynch involved. On […]
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This is something that might not intrigue everyone, especially if you’re not much of a podcast listener. But if you are a fan of podcasts, particularly what’s been on the Grantland network, you might find it interesting that one of their consistently best shows, “The Moment” with Brian Koppelman, has moved on to a different […]
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We have all done it. Our friends do it. Our family does it. Binge-watching TV shows is as common as renting a movie at a video store was in the 90’s. Now many of the most popular shows, or at least the ones that get the most internet coverage, are made specifically for all-at-once consumption. What […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/7/2015
If you’re like me and have been waiting for prices to come down a bit on the Star Wars Blu-rays and DVDs (especially for the original trilogy), this might be welcome news for you. According to Collider, Disney, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox will be releasing all six Star Wars films on Digital HD on […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Shortly after being the new host of The Daily Show last week, Trevor Noah found himself in some hot social media water over jokes he made years ago on Twitter. Some of the jokes were anti-Semitic, some were cruel toward fat women, but mostly they just weren’t that funny because they took aim at easy […]
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Heading into last Wednesday’s series finale of Cougar Town, the stage seemed set for something that would wrap up plenty of arcs for most members of the Cul-de-sac Crew. The tendency for series finales in recent years has been to go big and make something that not only stands out from an average episode, but also […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/6/2015
TV revivals have suddenly become all the rage with The X-Files, Coach and Full House all coming back to the small screen. Yet the show that may have started this wave of nostalgia might not be happening, after all. On Sunday, David Lynch announced that he was walking away from Showtime’s revival of Twin Peaks, […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
One of the nice things about my Saturday Night Live recaps not being posted until Monday morning is that it gives me a chance to watch each episode again before writing the recap. I usually don’t sway too far from my initial impression, but occasionally I will see a sketch or a performance differently after watching it […]
