0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/6/2015
How much of stand-up comedy is based on crowd reaction and interaction with the audience? Obviously, the material itself is extremely important. But a comedian won’t know how those jokes will play until trying them out on people. (This applies to any art form, really. The audience tells you what’s working and what isn’t. And that […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
There have been lots of discussions over the years about the perils and merits of shows that reset everything at the end of each episode, ignoring long-term implications and character growth in favour of a regular status quo. It’s a particularly interesting debate within comedy shows, as some have done very well with extensive use […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/5/2015
The Daily Show was already going to be a different program in the next six to 12 months, with Jon Stewart announcing his departure. But the rest of the on-air staff will have some new faces as well. That said, I am ecstatic to announce that I’m about to make another great show over
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
It’s really not fair for a writer, columnist or critic to form opinions about a TV show or movie before watching it. (This can obviously apply to sports, politics or any other subject covered.) Of course, we see it happen all the time. Writers have their stories planned out before they’re actually composed, often to […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/4/2015
Marvel certainly knows how to appease its voracious fanbase, eager for anything and everything related to its latest films. The next trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron was scheduled to premiere on ABC this Thursday (March 5) with the pilot episode of American Crime. (That presumably would have given the new series quite a boost.) […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Here’s something that probably should have been thought all the way through during the path from design to physical product. There are many poses of Spider-Man from the comic books that could be given embodiment in balloon form. But when you’re talking about a character that often has his legs spread out as he’s swinging […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
As music fans, we all have bands we love with deep devotion. Some of them have been important to us throughout our lives. Maybe it was the first band that truly got through to us. Perhaps we discovered a particular song at a meaningful time while growing up, and went on to absorb everything from […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/3/2015
Jon Stewart is certainly having some fun during his final months as host of The Daily Show. Not that we ever should have worried that he would take himself too seriously, but getting involved in a feud with WWE star Seth Rollins? That almost seems more like a Stephen Colbert move. But in Stewart’s defense, […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
With Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson hosting, you knew Saturday Night Live would have its fair share of jokes at the expense of the highest-grossing movie of the first two months of 2015. While one sketch, “Press Junket,” did air on Saturday’s episode, another was “cut for time.” The cut Fifty Shades of Grey sketch is […]
0 comments by Reva Friedel
Saturday Night Live is celebrating 40 years this season. When I look back and think about my favorite cast member, it’s a choice I came to in a roundabout way. I didn’t watch SNL on a regular basis until I was in high school, and mostly the last two years, so the late 90s, if you’re […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/2/2015
As contemporary action movies have raised the level of skill and choreography performed on screen, the time seems right for a new biopic of Bruce Lee. With no disrespect intended to 1993’s Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, which took sort of a metaphysical turn imagining a childhood fear that haunted the martial arts star as […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston
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 Jeremy Klumpp
Dakota Johnson had a pretty good February. She starred in one of the most anticipated movies of the year, Fifty Shades of Grey, she presented at the Oscars, and on Saturday night she hosted the return of Saturday Night Live after the show took almost a month off to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Johnson was at […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 2/27/2015
Actor Leonard Nimoy, best known to the world for playing Mr. Spock in the Star Trek TV series and film franchise, passed away on Friday (Feb. 27) at the age of 83. He died at his home in Los Angeles. Nimoy had been hospitalized earlier in the week after experiencing chest pains, which prompted many […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
We’re probably guilty of getting too geeky here at The AP Party. But movie studios continue to churn out superhero blockbusters and the trend has flowed over to TV as well. Arrow and The Flash have been huge successes for the CW, and while they don’t feature superheroes, per se, Fox’s Gotham and ABC’s Agents of […]
