0 comments by Tim Livingston on 12/11/2014
The project was ambitious, but the cynics called it pretentious. A documentary about the making of an album? And they’re gonna travel all across the country and record each song in a different studio in every city? What’s the point? One thing that is apparent with Dave Grohl is that he has a deep appreciation […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/10/2014
“My world is fire and blood.” The first line of the trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road is cryptic, but probably describes Max Rockatansky’s existence perfectly. It certainly sums up the glorious anarchy displayed in this two-and-a-half minute preview of director George Miller’s sequel/reboot (“rebootquel”?) of his “Mad Max” trilogy that made Mel Gibson an […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston
(Obviously, spoilers ahead.) One thing that quickly went away in the canon of television was a twist ending. In lieu of tying up loose ends and putting a bow on a series, television dramas decided to go with ambiguous endings that seemed like copouts to fans of the show. The ending to The Sopranos was the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/9/2014
If an earthquake struck Los Angeles — a massive earthquake that laid waste to the city — wouldn’t you want The Rock to be the one to save you? That appears to be the premise of San Andreas, in which Dwayne Johnson stars as a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot trying to find and save his daughter […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Maybe the civil unrest in Ferguson is just too painful a topic to approach, even for a comedy show like Saturday Night Live that’s supposed to be unafraid of mining difficult topics for humor. That could be why a funny sketch depicting the misery a local St. Louis TV morning show experiences in trying to […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
As our usual Saturday Night Live recapper Jeremy Klumpp wrote two weeks ago, SNL seems to be getting better with each subsequent show this season. That trend continued with the latest show. I’d argue there wasn’t a weak show in the bunch, though some were obviously stronger than others. Even the final half-hour of the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/8/2014
If you saw any people beginning their week wandering around looking around as if they had lost something, it’s very possible that these poor victims are trying to find the two hours they lost by watching Discovery Channel’s Eaten Alive on Sunday night. When the concept (televised stunt) was announced a month ago, we were on board. A […]
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CW’s The Flash has already gotten cute by casting actors from the 1990 CBS series in supporting or guest roles. Barry Allen’s father is played by John Wesley Shipp, who portrayed the hero 24 years ago. Amanda Pays, who played scientist Tina McGee (and Allen love interest), will be a character with the same name but […]
0 comments by Reva Friedel on 12/5/2014
Love Actually. There is an ongoing joke with some of my friends about how I’m so obsessed with this movie that I’ll watch it year-round, even though it’s clearly a holiday movie that is only watchable from the day after Thanksgiving until New Year’s or some such asinine rule that I never follow. (Sorry, Courtney, […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/4/2014
Most of the talk with Marvel has to do with their upcoming movies. Avengers: Age of Ultron. Captain America: Civil War. Black Panther. Benedict Cumberbatch was finally (officially) announced as Doctor Strange. Marvel also has some TV action going on too. But while Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter are interesting enough, what the studio has coming up […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Is the newest installment of the “Terminator” franchise, titled Terminator: Genisys, one of the most anticipated films of 2015 or among its most dreaded? Personally, I fall into the latter category. For one thing, look how “Genisys” is spelled in that title. It makes my eyes twitch. I loved the first two Terminator films and even […]
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Early Thursday morning in the U.S. — but during the evening in the UK — the name of the new James Bond film was announced in dramatic fashion on stage at Pinewood Studios. The next Bond movie, the 24th in the series, is titled Spectre. For long time fans of Agent 007, that holds some significance. […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/2/2014
Unless you’re a diehard DC Comics fan, you may have no idea what the Suicide Squad is. But Warner Brothers is making sure you’ll be interested in a Suicide Squad movie by putting together a killer group of actors to play this assembly of supervillains. As first reported by Variety, Will Smith headlines the cast, giving Suicide […]
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With the raging success of The Walking Dead, AMC understandably wants to keep that business going for as long as possible. In September, the network ordered a pilot for a spinoff show, written by the source graphic novel’s creator Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson (Sons of Anarchy), focusing on survivors of the zombie apocalypse in […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 12/1/2014
In the annals of movie history, there are only a handful that can claim to be the greatest Christmas movie of all time. It’s A Wonderful Life. Die Hard. A Christmas Story. A Charlie Brown Christmas. Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever. Okay, maybe not that one. But to me, there’s only one. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Today, […]
