0 comments by Andrew Bucholtz on 3/18/2015
One problem with looking at Fox’s new comedy The Last Man On Earth after four episodes is that we still don’t really have a sense of what this series will be like week to week, or of the people who make up its world. The show’s already changed remarkably from the initial situation; only the first episode had […]
0 comments by Pete Schwab on 3/17/2015
When the Playstation 4 and Xbox One were being officially announced at the Electronics Entertainment Expo in 2013, Sony and Microsoft respectively had the job of convincing the owners of their then-current consoles that the time had come for a new generation of gaming hardware. The two companies took very different approaches to their sales […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/16/2015
After a certain point, a movie project stops and starts so many times, you can’t help but wonder whether or not it’s really going to happen. The attempted remake/reboot of The Crow is a great example of this. A new version of James O’Barr’s comic book goth avenger has been in the works since 2008, […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
On the surface, the March 7 episode of Saturday Night Live was fairly uneventful. The highlight for many was most likely any time hunky host Chris Hemsworth made an appearance on-screen, but this episode also marked the first official appearance of Kate McKinnon as probable 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. What was strange about this […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/13/2015
Saturday Night Live is taking a three-week hiatus after the March 7 episode hosted by Chris Hemsworth. (Here is Jeremy Klumpp’s recap.) Yet it seemed a bit strange that the show was going into its break without announcing who the next guest host would be when returning on March 28. One weekend later, we know […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/12/2015
Netflix debuted its latest exclusive series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt last weekend. Taking a plunge into sitcoms seemed like a nice change from the hour-long dramas that the network has mostly produced. The series was originally produced for NBC, but ultimately ended up at Netflix, which ordered two seasons.
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/11/2015
Nearly 18 months after FXX canceled his show Totally Biased, comedian W. Kamau Bell will be back on TV and arguably with an even better gig. Bell will host a documentary series on CNN titled The United Shades of America, in which he will “explore the far corners of our country” and its subcultures, according […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/10/2015
Like the cultural phenomenon the Sharknado franchise has become, the cast for the third chapter in this epic trilogy continues to grow. A week after Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban won the role of our nation’s president, and ESPN’s Michelle Beadle successfully hashtagged her way into the production, Sharknado 3 may have […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams got to give it up after a Los Angeles jury ruled that the two songwriters copied Marvin Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up” for their 2013 hit “Blurred Lines.” (That joke was terrible, wasn’t it? We apologize.) Thicke and Williams have to give up $7.5 million, to be exact, […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
You can’t have a good superhero movie or TV show without a great bad guy. The villain might even need to be better — in terms of character and intrigue — than the hero. Sometimes, that can be taken too far, as with the bad guys in the Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher Batman movies. […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
When I imagine a former boy genius who’s become a “get off my lawn” recluse because he’s disgusted with the world, George Clooney isn’t the first actor to come to mind for such a role. Director Brad Bird obviously disagreed, casting him as the lead (although Clooney probably casts himself these days) in Tomorrowland. Here […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
A month ago, after Brian Williams had taken himself off NBC Nightly News while the network conducted an investigation into the truthfulness of his involvement with a helicopter attack in Iraq back in 2003, I wrote that the anchor was trying too hard to give himself gravitas as a newscaster. More than that, Williams was […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/9/2015
The superheroic Super Bowl wager between Chris Pratt and Chris Evans has now been settled. Though Evans’ New England Patriots defeated Pratt’s Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX, both actors agreed to fulfill the terms of the bet. There were no losers here. In early February, Pratt visited Christopher’s Haven in Boston dressed as Star-Lord, while […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
For the second week in a row, Saturday Night Live delivered a moderately funny episode. This time around, Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth — who was there to either promote The Avengers: Age of Ultron two months in advance, or Blackhat two months after its release — was the attractive host given the weak material with […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/6/2015
Superhero TV shows are a hot commodity now with the success of Arrow, The Flash and Gotham. (OK, Gotham technically isn’t a superhero show.) And CBS is ready to get into the game with a series based on DC Comics’ Supergirl. Supergirl actually has some cred behind it, as executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew […]
