0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 1/26/2015
If you’ve been a regular watcher of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, you know that one of John Oliver’s recurring jokes is his dissatisfaction with Jamie Dornan being cast as Christian Grey in the movie adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey. Oliver even started the hashtag #NotMyChristian to make his stance clear. But as it turns […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
Saturday Night Live has used the dual host/musical guest to great effect since the beginning of the show in 1975. Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin, and Desi Arnaz doubled as host and musical guest during the first season, and just last season Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, and Drake all carried on the tradition. Blake Shelton may have appeared an unlikely […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 1/24/2015
Action movies and TV are filled with archery these days. Whether it’s Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games films, Hawkeye in The Avengers, Legolas in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit franchises, or Oliver Queen on Arrow, the bow and arrow is a choice weapon among many of today’s heroes. Even some bad guys […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 1/23/2015
NBC’s Hannibal ended its second season with the famed serial killer running off to Europe after discovering that FBI profiler Will Graham had been deceiving him in an attempt to get him arrested. As could be expected from the most grisly show on television, it was messy and bloody. And well, it was kind of […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
One of the more exciting developments of the latest batch of X-Men films is the franchise’s ambition toward reinventing itself and rebooting its core characters for a new audience and fresh set of films. In 2011, X-Men: First Class dialed the clock back from Patrick Stewart’s Professor Xavier to James McAvoy’s younger version of the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Enough about #DeflateGate and #Ballghazi already. As Super Bowl week approaches, there have to be more interesting stories to cover, right? How about Captain America and Star-Lord making a bet on the big game? Chris Evans, who suits up as the Star-Spangled Avenger on the big screen, threw down the gauntlet to his fellow Marvel […]
0 comments by Dave Tobener
The FX network has given us some of the best television around for a while now, and with two of their flagship dramas — Sons of Anarchy and Justified — ending their runs it got me to thinking: what are the best shows FX has ever produced? It could have been a long list, but […]
0 comments by Reva Friedel on 1/22/2015
There were a few weird things about this week’s Celebrity Apprentice. The first is that I watched it twice (I KNOW) and feel like I have less to say about the actual tasks and more about the remaining contestants. Secondly, out of nowhere (that we’ve seen, who knows how much has been edited out), Vivica […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/21/2015
Cold War spy drama? U.S.-Soviet tensions? Really? That’s so past-tense. At least, that’s what I thought when I first found out about The Americans and its basic premise. I was a little boy — younger than the son of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings — at the start of the Reagan presidency, when the story in […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 1/20/2015
Apparently, five Academy Award nominations can change a guy’s mind. Or at the very least, that might settle a hothead down. Just over two weeks ago, former Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz exploded on Twitter over how he was portrayed in the movie Foxcatcher, pointing most of his outrage toward director Bennett Miller. What particularly angered […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
This week’s Saturday Night Live cut for time sketch stars Kyle Mooney’s stand-up comic character Bruce Chandling. Chandling bombs at the Gotham Comedy Club, gets mocked by his fellow comedians, runs into Kevin Hart backstage, and wins him over with a “great” television show idea. It appears that SNL was attempting to move Chandling out […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
“Weird Al” Yankovic won’t be performing at halftime of this year’s Super Bowl, despite a petition calling for the NFL to book him. Maybe he never really wanted to anyway. We’ll probably never know. However, if there was any disappointment, “Weird Al” is going to console himself with a massive (82 shows!) world tour. Beginning […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Filmmaker Werner Herzog is an international treasure. He’s a fascinating director who has made movies about men who live among grizzlies (Grizzly Man) and harrowing depictions of prisoners of war (Rescue Dawn). Modern audiences might be more familiar with Herzog for playing The Zec in Jack Reacher or voicing the documentary filmmaker in Penguins of […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 1/19/2015
The TV series Constantine is presumably on shaky ground at NBC, stopping production on the show at 13 episodes, rather than extending its first season to the 22 episodes that network programs typically get. (Ratings for the show’s return after its winter hiatus weren’t promising, further endangering its chances for a second season.) Constantine‘s first […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
Saturday Night Live returned after almost a month away with Kevin Hart hosting and Sia as the musical guest. While the show started strong, including a great monologue from Hart about raccoons and putting his son in harm’s way, it stumbled a bit during the second half. Overall though, another good episode in a season full […]
